Wera Tubandt

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Wera Tubandt (born February 25 . Jul / 9. March  1881 . Greg in Odessa as Vera Krilitschewsky ; † 9. February 1944 in Berlin ) was a German chemist Jewish - Russian origin and the first woman on a Hessian University doctorate was .

Life

Wera Krilitschewsky came as the daughter of the Jewish businessman Abraham Krilitschewsky and his wife Fanny nee. Lewin to the world. Her wealthy parents made it possible for her to have an exceptional academic education for this time. While still in her hometown, she passed the teacher’s exam and then enrolled to study chemistry at the University of Halle-Wittenberg for the winter semester of 1899/1900 . It was here that she met her future husband, Carl Tubandt . In February 1902 she passed the chemical association examination. Since a doctorate in Halle was still reserved exclusively for men at that time, she moved to the University of Giessen in the winter semester of 1902/03 . There she received her doctorate as an academic student of Karl Elbs with a thesis on the knowledge of cerium sulfate accumulator .

In 1904 she was baptized as a Christian and married Carl Tubandt on September 3rd. On December 8th, she was awarded her doctorate in Giessen and her work was awarded magna cum laude . This made her the first woman in Hesse to obtain a doctoral degree in a regular way. Charlotte von Siebold and Therese Frei had already obtained their doctoral degrees in Gießen in the 19th century , the first on account of their honor and the latter on the basis of their faculty certificate.

Carl Tubandt received his doctorate in the same year as his wife and was awarded a professorship in chemistry in 1912. Since the couple had two daughters in 1905 and 1907, Wera Tubandt gave up her academic career and devoted herself to the family.

Wera Tubandt's Jewish descent led to her husband being dismissed from the University of Halle in 1937 on the basis of Section 6 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service . The couple then moved in with their daughters, who now live in Berlin-Zehlendorf . Carl Tubandt fell ill there and died on January 17, 1942. Wera Tubandt no longer had any legal protection and was supposed to be deported to a concentration camp. At first she was able to evade this, for example by traveling and by hiding with friends. On February 9, 1944, however, she finally committed suicide by ingesting poison. Her two daughters survived the war.

Commemoration

Stumbling stone in memory of Wera Tubandt

On August 24, 2009, a stumbling block was laid in front of her last place of residence in Halle (Saale), Carl-von-Ossietzky-Straße 16, in memory of Wera Tubandt .

Fonts

  • To the knowledge of the cerium sulfate accumulator (1904), dissertation

literature

  • Dagmar Klein: A right to education - also for women. For a century: women at the University of Giessen. In: Mirror of Research. Volume 24, Issue 2, 2007, pp. 30-38 ( PDF, 3.5 MB ).

Movie

  • Marco Härtl, Simon Leimig: Together against the persecution - The fate of Wera and Carl Tubandt. 2010 ( vimeo ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dagmar Klein: A right to education - also for women. For a century: women at the University of Giessen. P. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Tubandt, Wera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krilitschewsky, Wera (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1944
Place of death Berlin