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Hedwig Therese Dorothea Henriette Voegt (28 July 1903, Hamburg, German Empire - 14 March 1988, Leipzig, Eastern Germany) was a German literary scholar who obtained a doctorate in German-Jacobin literature when she was 49 and became a university professor at Leipzig University.[1]
While she was a younger woman, modest family circumstances ruled out an academic career. During the 1920s she worked for the post office in Hamburg as a telegrapher and became a political activist (KPD), serving at least three prison terms during the twelve Nazi years because of her resistance to the régime.[2]
- ^ "Prof. Dr. phil. Hedwig Voegt". Universität Leipzig, Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ Karl Heinz Jahnke [in German]. "buchbesprechungen ... Zur Erinnerung an Hedwig Voegt" (PDF). informationen 68. Studienkreis Deutscher Widerstand 1933-1945 e.V., Frankfurt/Main. p. 43. Retrieved 27 July 2016.