Rahel Liebeschütz-Plaut

Elisabeth Amalie Rahel Liebeschütz-Plaut (born June 21, 1894 in Leipzig , † December 22, 1993 in Rochester ) was a German physiologist .

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A stumbling block for Rahel Liebeschütz-Plaut on the UKE premises .

Rahel Plaut was a daughter of the bacteriologist Hugo Carl Plaut and his wife Adele geb. Broke. From 1913 she first studied zoology for one semester, then medicine at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . After further study stays in Kiel and Bonn , she completed her studies in 1918 with the state examination. In her doctorate in pathological anatomy with Hugo Ribbert , she described the cleft cyst-forming adenoma of the mammary gland in 1919 .

Rahel Plaut went to Hamburg , where she had been a member of the registry of Hamburg doctors since August 1919. From November of the same year she worked as a scientific assistant at the physiological institute of the university there under the direction of Otto Kestner . During her habilitation in 1923 on the blocking of the skeletal muscle, she was the first woman to do so at the Medical Faculty of Hamburg University. She then led the physiological internship as a private lecturer and gave lectures on pathological physiology.

In 1924 Rahel Plaut married the historian Hans Liebeschütz . Since employees who were financially independent had been laid off since 1923, Liebeschütz-Plaut had to give up her position as an assistant after the marriage. From then on she taught unpaid at the Physiological Institute until 1933. In addition, from 1919 to 1925 she published 25 papers on muscle physiology, metabolism and heat regulation. From 1925 she worked as a resident doctor in Hamburg.

Since she was considered a “non- Aryan ”, the Hamburg Senate revoked her teaching permit in July 1933. Liebeschütz-Plaut then gave classes in physiology and pathology at a Jewish home economics school and at the Israelite Hospital for some time . In December 1938 the couple moved to England. Due to a lack of recognition of her professional qualifications, Liebeschütz-Plaut was no longer able to teach here. In addition to family life with the children Wolfgang , Hugo (* 1929) and Elisabeth (* 1932), she worked in a charitable organization dedicated to the elderly.

literature

• Silke Kaiser: Liebeschütz-Plaut, Rahel . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 185-186 .
• Doris Fischer-Radizi: Expelled from Hamburg. The doctor Rahel Liebeschütz-Plaut. (= Scientist in Hamburg. 2). Wallstein, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3383-3 .

Web links

• Rahel Liebeschütz-Plaut, b. Plaut short biography on the Charité website