Hedwig Voegt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German specialist in literature and university teacher (1903-1988)
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Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
About Hedwig Voegt
- Hedwig 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.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.
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