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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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