Nora Kräutle

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Nora Kräutle (* 1891 in Stuttgart , † 1981 in Frankfurt am Main ), married Gramberg, was the first woman at the Technical University of Stuttgart graduated and in Germany, the first woman at a technical university in the subject chemistry doctorate . She was also one of the first chemists at Hoechst .

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Nora Kräutle was born in Stuttgart in 1891 as Eleonore Kräutle. Her father was a building officer, later a senior building officer at the Royal Württemberg State Railways . After attending secondary school for girls up to sixth grade, she attended the Königin-Charlotte-Gymnasium in Stuttgart from 1904 to 1910 . During this time she changed her name to Nora, and from then on it appeared in this form in all documents.

After graduating from high school in the summer of 1910, she began to study chemistry at the Technical University of Stuttgart. After her preliminary diploma examination in autumn 1912, Kräutle passed the main diploma examination in chemistry on January 28, 1914. This made her the first female engineer at the TH Stuttgart. In chemistry, the technical universities awarded only the degree of Diplom-Ingenieur until 1939.

Kräutle then began working on her doctoral thesis with Alexander Gutbier in the electrochemical laboratory of the TH Stuttgart. After the outbreak of World War I , she first worked as a helper at the Red Cross and then at the Stuttgart Food Office. On July 29, 1915, she received her doctorate with honors, making her the first female doctor of chemistry at a technical university in the German Empire.

From January to December 1916, Kräutle worked in the technical and scientific private laboratory of Max Buchner , the later ACHEMA founder, in Heidelberg. Due to the move from Buchner to Hanover, Kräutle moved to MLB (later Hoechst) in Mannheim in January 1917 and was one of the first chemists there.

In 1919 Nora Kräutle married Anton Gramberg (1875–1966), who had also worked at Hoechst since 1917 and rose rapidly there. This ended her professional life. The couple had two children, Erich and Hilde.

Honors

On January 30, 2014 the University of Stuttgart celebrated the 100th anniversary of the diploma of its first female graduate. On this occasion, the University of Stuttgart awarded the Prima! Prize for the first time to honor outstanding theses by graduates from the University of Stuttgart.

On July 29, 1915, Dipl.-Ing. Nora Kräutle is the first woman to do her doctorate at the Technical University of Stuttgart. Almost exactly 75 years later, on July 11, 1990, the Senate of the University of Stuttgart decided to set up a Senate Commission for the Advancement of Women, which was constituted in November 1990. These two anniversaries were the occasion for a celebratory event for the Equal Opportunities Commissioner of the University of Stuttgart, which took place on December 9, 2015 at the University of Stuttgart under the title "1915 - 1990 - 2015. Milestones in Equality at the University of Stuttgart".

Fonts

  • Nora Kräutle: Colloid-chemical analysis of salep mucus. Dissertation. Technical University of Stuttgart, 1917, DNB 570480043 .

literature

  • Petra Mayerhofer: "There are people who imagine a very strange monster under a student". The beginnings of women's studies at the Technical University of Stuttgart. In: Gabriele Hardtmann, Nicola Hille (Hrsg.): The beginnings of women's studies in Württemberg. First female graduates from the TH Stuttgart. Steiner, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10656-6 , pp. 39-93.

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Individual evidence

  1. Christine Roloff: From suppleness to interference. Professionalization of chemists and computer scientists. (Current women's research, Vol. 3). Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1989, p. 29.
  2. Margot Felsch: Miss Doctor was really the best. Nora Gramberg celebrates her engineering anniversary. Memory of an eventful life. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. July 28, 1965.
  3. Mirjam Wiemeler: The chemist Emma Pilgrim (1890-1989). In: Gilla Dölle, Silke Mehrwald, Tanja Paulitz (eds.): Friction and resistance. On research and practice in science and technology. (Ariadne - Forum for Women's and Gender History Vol. 41). Archive of the German Women's Movement, Kassel 2002, pp. 51–55.
  4. Milestones of Equality - Anniversary Event