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The number of students decreased dramatically due to the urgent need to expand the German Armed Forces: there were far fewer than the expected 15,000. 10,538 men and 1,503 women registered in 1934, which led to a shortage of young academics although, since 1936 the number of women at German universities had actually been growing.
In 1900, Freiburg became the first German university to accept female students. Before there had been no women at German universities. In the beginning of the 20th century, several new university buildings were built in the centre of Freiburg, such as the new main building in 1911. The university counted 3,000 students just before World War I.
The first women's university. [231] Baden, Germany Universities open to women. [232] Sri Lanka Secondary education open to women. [233] 1901: Bulgaria Universities open to women. [173] Cuba Universities open to women. [170] 1902: Australia Ada Evans becomes the first woman to graduate in law at the University of Sydney. [234] 1903: United States
It was also a period of great expansion. From 1903, women were allowed to study at Bavarian universities, and by 1918, the female proportion of students at LMU had reached 18%. In 1918, Adele Hartmann became the first woman in Germany to earn the Habilitation (higher doctorate), at LMU.
Women were barred from government and university positions. Women's rights groups, such as the moderate BDF, were disbanded, and replaced with new social groups that would reinforce Nazi values, under the leadership of the Nazi Party and the head of women's affairs in Nazi Germany, Reichsfrauenführerin Gertrud Scholtz-Klink. [24]
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First women's colleges at Oxford (l to r): Lady Margaret Hall, founded in 1879; Somerville College, founded in 1879; and St Hugh's College, founded in 1886 In 1920, the University of Oxford admitted women to degrees for the first time during the Michaelmas term. The conferrals took place at the Sheldonian Theatre on 14 October, 26 October, 29 October, 30 October and 13 November. That same year ...