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Born: 19.11.1879, in: Berlin
Died: unknown
Faculty: Economics
Academic title: Dr. rer. oec.

Charlotte Bickhardt was born in Berlin on November 19, 1879 and attended the Victoria School and the Victoria Lyceum. She then took part in a course for Christian, female charity work, which was set up at the instigation of the Empress. This was followed by three years in which Charlotte Bickhardt was active in caring for the poor in the north of Berlin. After a six-month stay in England, she applied to join the Order of St. John as a teaching nurse and, after completing her training at the deaconess house in Dresden, was granted a license as a sister of the order. In this position, she volunteered for a long time as head of the women's medical department in the city hospital in Chemnitz.

As her outlook on life often contradicted that of the young male doctors, she decided to study medicine. With the help of private tuition, she prepared for her school-leaving examination and passed it at the Friedrich-Realgymnasium in Berlin with the permission of the Prussian Ministry of Education. She studied medicine for six semesters at the Königliche Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. To her regret, she had to discontinue her studies in 1910, as she married a colonel's doctor in the same year and he was transferred to the Leibregiment Dresden shortly after the wedding.

It was here that she gave birth to their child. In her curriculum vitae, Charlotte Bickhardt states that she was unable to follow her husband into the field at the outbreak of war out of consideration for the child's upbringing and therefore made herself available to the Dresden-Neustadt district administration as a district lady. During the First World War, she was thus active in the care of warrior families in her district of Klotzsche.

After the war, the family faced great difficulties. She states in her curriculum vitae that the family was faced with a complete loss of assets due to the war and the fact that her husband's health had been severely shaken by his military service.

And so Charlotte Bickhardt began studying economics at the TH Dresden in the summer of 1922. In November 1924, she took her preliminary examination, which she passed with a good grade. The main examination followed in 1926, which she also passed and became a Diplom-Volkswirtin. With her dissertation on the "Changes and extensions of the term "industrial accident. A contribution to the internal development history of social policy", she completed her doctorate in April 1928.

For the time being, this is where Charlotte Bickhardt's trail ends. Further research may shed light on her private and professional life.