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Title: | Dr. med. |
Prename: | Edith von |
Surname: | Lölhöffel von Löwensprung |
Name of birth: | Unterberger |
Profession: | Physician |
Birthday: | 03/13/1896 |
Place of birth: | Berlin |
Date of death: | 1941 |
Place of death: | Berlin |
Married since: | 1923 |
Married to: | Erich Lölhöffel von Löwensprung |
Profession husband: | Dr. |
Children: | 4 |
Education: | 1917 final high school examinations (*Abitur*) in Charlottenburg; 1917–22 university studies (medicine) in Berlin, vocational training in massage and gymnastics; 1924 doctorate; 1928 approbation as sports physician |
Career: | 1923–27 physician at the Neuwestend and Lichterfelde clinics, Berlin; also works in obstetrics and offers courses at the Charlottenburg youth center (Jugendheim); 1928 permanent position at the German College of Physical Education (Deutsche Hochschule für Leibesübungen); 1929 appointed to Prussian College of Physical Education (Preußische Hochschule für Leibesübungen), from 1930 also lectures at the College of Physical Education (now called Hochschulinstitut für Leibesübungen) and works as a sports physician at the University of Berlin; 1932 gives up these positions due to ill health; from 1933 voluntary work in the League of German Girls (BDM), Reich Labor Service, and Reich Women’s Leadership; 1936 supervises German women athletes at the Berlin Olympics; from 1937 edits the journal *Die Ärztin*; German delegate to the Stockholm congress of Medical Women’s International Association |
Memberships: | Wandervogel youth movement; from 1920 University Union of the German Race (Hochschulring Deutsche Art) and Association for Germans Abroad (Verein für das Deutschtum im Ausland); 1926–36 Federation of German Women Physicians (BDÄ), 1931 first secretary of the Berlin chapter; 1933 National Socialist League for Physical Education |
Biographical literature: | Ilse Szagunn, “Edith von Lölhöffel zum Gedächtnis,” *Die Ärztin* 17 (1941): 95–9; Ursula Kuhlo, “Dr. Edith von Lölhöffel ist von uns gegangen,” *Die Ärztin* 17 (1941): 45–6; Christine Eckelmann, *Ärztinnen in der Weimarer Zeit und im Nationalsozialismus. Eine Untersuchung über den Bund Deutscher Ärztinnen* (Wermelskirchen: WFT Verlag für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technik, 1992), 97 |
Major works: | *Über die Beziehungen zwischen Ovulation und Menstruation* (diss. med., n.p., 1924) |
Links: | [Dokumentation Ärztinnen im Kaiserreich](http://geschichte.charite.de/aerztinnen/HTML/rec00702c1.html) |