Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstraße 22
14195 Berlin
E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Title: | Dr. med. |
Prename: | Lea |
Surname: | Thimm |
Profession: | Physician |
Birthday: | 06/25/1886 |
Place of birth: | Tilsit |
Date of death: | 03/03/1965 |
Place of death: | Marl |
Children: | 2 (adopted) |
Education: | 1913 state examination in medicine in Königsberg; 1914 approbation; 1920 doctorate |
Career: | 1919–45 private practice in Berlin; from 1933 assistant physician at the Public Health Department and accredited by the Nazi Office of Public Health (Amt für Volksgesundheit); 1938 excluded from the Reich Chamber of Writers; until 1945 lives in Berlin-Buch |
Memberships: | From 1922 Pan-German League (Alldeutscher Verband); 1926 Nazi Party; 1931 Berlin Medical Society; 1933–36 president, Federation of German Women Physicians (BDÄ) and council member, German Federation of University Women (DAB); National Socialist Physicians’ League; National Socialist Women’s League; 1933–38 Reich Association of German Writers |
Biographical literature: | Johanna Bleker and Sabine Schleiermacher, *Ärztinnen aus dem Kaiserreich. Lebensläufe einer Generation* (Weinheim: Deutscher Studien-Verlag, 2000), 165–6, 297 |
Major works: | *Ein Fall von Cyclopie und Otocephalie* (diss.; Berlin: Blanke, 1920) |