Dorothea Menadier

Menadier was born on 11 December 1891.^[1] She was the daughter of the medieval numismatist and director of the Berlin Coin Cabinet Julius Menadier (de) and Ida, née Freiin von Düring.^[2] After attending the Chamissoschule in Berlin-Schöneberg, she studied history at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin. In Berlin, she graduated with a PhD on 21 June 1915. Her thesis was supervised by Michael Tangl. Menadier analysed the coins and coinage of medieval German nunneries and abbesses, a topic that had been suggested by her father.^[3]

Menadier's research demonstrated that most of the mints known from the coinage are also known from documentary sources.^[4] She also demonstrated that bailiffs were connected to the coinage.^[5]

In 1932 she contributed to a women's guidebook to Berlin, entitled Was die Frau von Berlin wissen muß ... : Ein praktisches Frauenbuch für Einheimische und Fremde.^[6] She died on 24 March 1944 at the age of 52 when an aerial bomb hit her house in Berlin-Lichterfelde. She was unmarried.^[7]

• Die Münzen und das Münzwesen der deutschen Reichsäbtissinnen im Mittelalter (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Berlin., 1915).^[3][8]