Enrollment in Academic Institutions of Higher Education (1914-1943/44)
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Enrollment in Academic Institutions of Higher Education (a) Semester/Year Students (b) Total Number of Female Students % Students per 10,000 Residents (c) SS 1914 79,511 4,313 5.4 11.7 WS 1914/15 36,201 7,409 (g) 20.4 5.3 SS 1915 22,900 4,813 (g) 21 3.3 WS 1915/16 20,010 4,927 (g) 7.6 2.9 SS 1916 22,225 5,793 (g) 26.1 3.2 SS 1917 23,387 7,752 (g) 32.3 3.4 SS 1918 25,430 7,573 29.8 3.8 WS 1918/19 46,180 7,861 17 6.9 ZS 1919 (d) 61,656 3,017 4.9 9.8 SS 1919 100,133 8,578 8.5 15.9 WS 1919/20 115,336 8,335 7.2 18.3 SS 1920 115,633 8,676 7.5 18.7 WS 1920/21 119,609 8,693 7.2 19.3 SS 1921 120,196 8,890 7.4 19.2 SS 1922 120,557 8,882 7.4 19.7 SS 1923 125,306 9,883 7.9 20.3 WS 1923/24 114,363 9,421 8.2 18.5 SS 1924 100,751 8,368 8.3 16.3 WS 1924/25 93,566 7,532 8 15.1 SS 1925 90,970 7,612 8.4 14.6 WS 1925/26 87,348 7,637 8.7 14 SS 1926 95,255 8,539 9 15.1 SS 1927 101,005 10,336 10.2 15.9 SS 1928 111,582 12,894 11.5 17.5 SS 1929 122,374 15,955 13 19.1 SS 1930 129,708 18,813 14.5 20.2 SS 1931 134,767 21,195 15.7 20.8 WS 1931/32 126,632 20,256 16 19.6 SS 1932 127,580 19,998 15.7 19.6 WS 1932/33 121,137 18,910 15.6 18.7 SS 1933 115,197 17,739 15.4 17.7 WS 1933/34 108,053 15,629 14.5 16.6 SS 1934 92,622 12,680 13.7 14.1 SS 1935 72,802 10,175 14 10.9 WS 1936/37 64,482 8,343 12.9 9.5 WS 1937/38 58,325 6,698 11.5 8.5 SS 1939 (e) 56,477 6,249 11.1 8.1 H.T. 1939 e,f) 36,239 5,875 16.2 5.2 2.T. 1940 e,f) 39,885 8,590 21.5 5.7 SS 1941 (e) 40,968 13,641 33.2 5.8 WS 1941/42 (e) 52,344 14,887 28.4 7.4 WS 1942/43 (e) 63,636 21,607 33.9 9 SS 1943 (e) 61,066 27,174 44.5 8.6 WS 1943/44 (e) 44,783 27,442 61.3 6.3 (a) Universities and polytechnic, veterinary, agricultural, forestry, and philosophical-theological colleges, business schools, sports and mountaineering academies; not including teachers’ colleges, and art and music schools. (b) Enrolled students, including foreigners, excluding guest students. WS 1914/15 – SS 1919 excludes students excused from coursework due to military service (60-70% of the students on average). Although they have not been categorized by gender, they have been excluded from these statistics on student enrollment. Beginning with SS 1925, students on leave or otherwise excused from coursework are no longer counted. (c) Population of the Reich at the midpoint of that year. The percentage of students in the winter semester is calculated on basis of the population figures for the previous year (midpoint). (d) In the spring of 1919 an intermediary semester was added to facilitate veterans’ transition to university. (e) Based on the borders as of December 31, 1937. (f) The summer semester of 1939 was followed by a fall trimester; 1940 was divided into trimesters; there was another trimester before the summer semester of 1941. (g) The pronounced fluctuation in the number of female students results primarily from the varying and sometimes incomplete statistical information found in “Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen der Oberschulbehörde Hamburg” [The Hamburg Higher Education Office’s General Enrollment Information], which listed 827 female students for the SS 1914; 3,340 for the WS 1914/15; none up until the WS 1916/17; and 894 for the SS 1917. Source of original German table: Sozialgeschichtliches Arbeitsbuch, Volume III, Materialien zur Statistik des Deutschen Reiches 1914-1945, edited by Dietmar Petzina, Werner Abelshauser, and Anselm Faust. Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1978, pp. 169-70. Translation: Fred Reuss
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