Vrouwen in de Duitse neerlandistiek, 1916-1965

In recent years, a few articles have been published about Dutch studies in Germany up until 1965, when the first chairs were founded in Cologne and Münster. These articles dealt with, for instance, a department or institute or a person, such as Johannes Franck, the first professor of Dutch in Germany. In this contribution, I focus on women in Dutch studies at German universities. There has been no research on this so far. Teaching and research at universities was the domain of men for a long time, and women often did not or could not make a career. It was not until 1992 that Helga Hipp was appointed the first female professor of Dutch Studies in Germany (Leipzig). In this article, I will present three categories: first, language teachers from the Netherlands or Belgium who worked briefly at a university in Germany, then Germanists at universities who worked on subjects from Dutch studies or switched to Dutch studies and, finally, lecturers or professors of Dutch Studies, who, for various reasons, worked in Germany for a longer period of time.