Else Koffka
Else Koffka (June 22, 1901 in Wronke – February 18, 1994 in Hannover) was a German lawyer and judge at the Federal Court in Berlin.[1]:187 She was one of the first women to do her doctorate at the Faculty of Law at the Humboldt University, again one of the first women who took a faculty assistant position at a university in Germany, becoming the first German lecturer in criminal law, who received a legal teaching assignment without previous habilitation.[1] Since the early 1920s, Else Koffka belonged to numerous professional organizations and associations, including the from 1921 until its dissolution in 1936, the from 1921 to its 1933 dissolution, the , from 1924 the , and from 1925 the .[1]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c Marion Röwekamp: Elsa Koffka. In: Juristinnen. Lexikon zu Leben und Werk. Hrsg. Deutscher Juristinnenbund e.V. Nomos Verlag, Baden Baden 2005, ISBN 3-8329-1597-4.
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- 1901 births
- 1994 deaths
- People from Wronki
- People from the Province of Posen
- 20th-century German lawyers