Käthe Leichter Forum to be Opened: New Centre for Doctoral Students

Named after a student of Max Weber who earned her doctorate at Heidelberg University and was murdered by the National Socialists in 1942. Käthe Leichter (1895-1942), who did her doctorate with the eminent sociologist Max Weber, was a social scientist and pioneer of the modern women's movement; she was involved in political resistance to the Nazi dictatorship and a victim of National Socialist persecution. Now a new centre for doctoral candidates at Heidelberg University is being named after her. The Käthe Leichter Forum - centrally located on the Im Neuenheimer Feld campus - is intended to be a place of advice and encounter with a specific university profile for the over 8,700 doctoral candidates at Ruperto Carola. They are to receive greater visibility as a status group both inside and outside the university. University Rector Bernhard Eitel will perform the opening ceremony for the new centre on 13 December 2022 in the presence of Käthe Leichter's son Franz and his daughter Kathy. Käthe Leichter, née Pick, is closely linked with the changeful history of Heidelberg University in the 20 century.