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Ingeborg Rapoport (born 2 September 1912) is a German physician and former communist functionary of East Germany. She emigrated to the United States in 1938, but left the country for East Germany in the early 1950s as a result of an investigation of her and her husband for un-American activities. An avowed communist and anti-Zionist, she became an influential member of the all-powerful East German Communist Party and held leading positions in the strictly communist-dominated university system of East Germany until her retirement in 1973.〔 East German universities systematically discriminated against non-communists and even children of non-communists, who were banned from employment and studies. After the fall of communism, she has continued to defend the East German communist regime and denies that it persecuted political opponents through its infamous secret police, the Stasi.〔http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/bezirke/pankow/102-jaehrige-doktorin-aus-berlin-pankow-leben-mit-der-geschichte/11813250-2.html〕 In East Germany, Ingeborg Rapoport was much honored and received the Patriotic Order of Merit, the National Prize of East Germany and other awards of the communist regime. Despite already holding an East German Habilitation, a higher doctorate, she became the oldest person to receive a doctorate in 2015 at 102 years old, but not the oldest person to receive her first doctorate. ==Early life== Rapoport was born as Ingeborg Syllm in September 1912 to Protestant German parents Paul Friedrich Syllm and Maria Syllm in Kribi, Cameroon, a German colony at this time.〔Prof. Dr. Roland R. Wauer, (), ''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin e.V. (DGKJ)'', August 31, 2012〕〔James Graff, (Ingeborg Rapoport to Become Oldest Recipient of Doctorate After Nazi Injustice is Righted ), ''The Wall Street Journal'', May 14, 2015〕〔(Never too late: Nazi-discriminated 102yo becomes world’s oldest doctorate recipient ), ''Russia Today'', May 14, 2015〕 Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Hamburg, Germany, where she grew up with her parents. Both her parents were Protestant Christians, but her mother had Jewish ancestry.〔〔Noah Rayman, (102-Year-Old Who Fled Nazis to Become Oldest Doctorate Recipient ), ''Time'', May 14, 2015〕 She was raised as a Protestant.〔 Her father was a businessman with conservative and German nationalist beliefs, and claimed descent from the Sillem family, a prominent Protestant family from Hamburg, with Syllm being a variant spelling. Her parents divorced in 1928.〔http://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de/object/lexm_lexmperson_00003117;jsessionid=uun2h0nl5lav?wcmsID=0003&XSL.lexmlayout.SESSION=lexmperson_all〕 Ingeborg Syllm was inspired to study medicine by the work of the German Lutheran theologian and physician Albert Schweitzer.〔 She attended the University of Hamburg and passed the state examination as a physician in 1937. The following year she submitted her doctoral dissertation about diphtheria.〔〔 Because she was categorized as a "Mischling" (i.e. someone with both Jewish and "Aryan" ancestry) by the Nazis,〔 she was not permitted to conduct a thesis defense and was denied the Doctorate degree.〔〔 Her thesis supervisor, Rudolf Degkwitz, was a member of the National Socialist Party; however, he was imprisoned for his opposition to the childhood euthanasia program spurred on by the Dean, who was a fanatical Nazi supporter.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ingeborg Rapoport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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