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. ...
