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Journal Article
The Broken Career of Johanna Hellmann, One of the First Women Surgeons in Germany
2020
Overview
Even today, women in surgery are a minority, so that female role models in surgery are in short supply. One of the first woman surgeons in Germany was Dr. Johanna Hellmann (1889-1981). Hellmann had to fight for her interests throughout her life: at school, in her quest to obtain the qualifications she needed for university entrance; at university, during her studies of medicine; and especially in the medical profession, as she sought to enter surgery, a predominantly male domain. Her career reached a peak in 1932, when she became the head surgeon of a small hospital in Berlin. But in 1933 the relentless Nazi persecution began, and Johanna Hellmann, who had converted to Protestantism, was suddenly considered a Jewess again. Everything she had achieved before the National Socialists came to power was destroyed, and emigration was the only choice left to her.
