Agnes Bluhm

Winner of Goethe medal (1862-1943)

Agnes Bluhm (9 January 1862 – 12 November 1943) was one of the first female doctors of medicine in Germany. She was a gynecologist, geneticist and fighter for women's rights. Despite this, she thought that for women, motherhood was more important than a career. She believed that German women could improve the race using eugenics and forced sterilisation. She wrote that the "female psyche" made her gender predisposed towards working for "racial hygiene".

Bluhm in 1886