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Making women in science visible! In recent years, TU Dresden has increasingly focussed on researching historical women who have shaped our university through their work and who have broken new ground as pioneers in science. Now it is time to put these women in the spotlight. The calendar is a further building block in this process.

The women depicted in the calendar were illustrated by the illustrator Viola Lippmann using historical photographs.

Historical female PhD students of the TU Dresden

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Dr.-Ing. Marie Frommer

She studied architecture and graduated in 1919 with a doctorate from the Dresden University of Technology. This made her the first female architect in Germany to receive a doctorate. Read more

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Dr. rer. nat. Eleonore Trefftz

She studied maths and physics, obtained her doctorate in 1944 and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen Read more

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Dr. rer. techn. Suse Weiner

Sie studierte von 1918 bis 1923 Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften an der Technischen Hochschule Dresden. Sie promovierte 1924. Read more

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Dr.-Ing. Sibylle Schieszl

She studied physics at the Technical University of Dresden and was awarded her doctorate there in 1948. Due to political repression, she fled to West Berlin in 1952. She later worked as the highest-ranking woman in the Volkswagen Group as head of global quality control. She campaigned for the networking of (international) female academics. She died in Sweden in 2010. Read more

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Dr. rer. techn. Johanna Wiegandt

She studied mathematics at the TH Dresden. After graduating, she completed her doctorate here with honours in 1919. This makes her the first female doctoral student at TU Dresden. She worked as a teacher at various girls' schools in Dresden and was appointed a teacher in 1926. After her retirement, she taught freelance in the distance learning programme at the TH Dresden. Learn more

Every month you will find a detailed biography of a female historical scientist at TU Dresden to match the current calendar page.

The calendar can be obtained free of charge from Diversity Management at TU Dresden. Please send us an e-mail to or pick up your calendar directly from our office.

Through targeted measures, several historical female scientists have already been successfully made visible.

• Inauguration of the first women's site at TU Dresden in May 2023 in honour of Johanna and Gertrud Wiegandt
• Positioning historical female scientists as namesakes, such as the Johanna Weinmeister Campus or the Charlotte Bühler Programme. The Maria Reiche Postdoctoral Fellowships and the Eleonore Trefftz Programme were also named after outstanding female historical researchers at TU Dresden.

The important and inspiring role of women in the past and present will continue to be made visible through further initiatives in the future.

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