Who was Jenny Gusyk?

Jenny Gusyk, who gave the award its name, was the first female student at our newly founded university in 1919.

Jenny Gusyk enrolled in the  Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences on 11 April 1919 under the matriculation number 2.
From everything known, Jenny Gusyk was an impressive and interesting personality: first and foremost she was a determined and successful student. After a total of seven semesters, she completed her studies with distinction by passing the commercial diploma examination. She was also politically active. It is known that she was a member of the AStA (student association) and wrote her diploma thesis on the french socialist Jean Jaurès. Jenny Gusyk also had a migration background: when Jenny was 13 years old, her family moved from the Russian Tsarist empire to Solingen/Germany. A few years later, her father, the jewish merchant Leon Gusyk, and with him the whole family, assumed turkish citizenship (the exact background to this is unknown, there is an assumption that there could be a connection with the repression of the Prussian state against russian jews).
After completing her studies, Jenny Gusyk moved to Berlin, where she married the journalist Karl Stucke and became the mother of a son. It can be assumed that the couple fell victim to the National Socialist persecution of Jewish and politically dissident people and were murdered (the evidence cited so far does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the exact date and place of death). The son Thomas Stucke survived the Third Reich and emigrated to the USA in 1946. When he received an enquiry in 2009 to name the Gender Equality Prize of the University of Cologne after his mother, he was very pleased and agreed. The contact was made by the Solingen journalist Wilhelm Rosenbaum.
 

Literature
Marina Wittka (1995): Genia statt Genius – Die erste Studentin der Universität zu Köln, in: Frauenbeauftragte der Universität zu Köln (Hg.), Genia. Nur für Frauen, Köln: M & T Verlag, S. 34 – 41.
Irene Franken (1995); „Ja, das Studium der Weiber ist schwer!“ Studentinnen und Dozentinnen an der Kölner Universität bis 1933, Köln: M & T Verlag, S. 33ff.
Wilhelm Rosenbaum (2003): Jenny Gusyk Buch, 2003, Rosenbaum (pdf, 3.2 MB)
Demant, Najah (2019): Jenny Gusyk - die erste Studentin der Universität zu Köln, in: Ute Planert (Hg.): Alberts Töcher. Kölner Frauen zwischen Stadt, Universität und Republik (1914-1933), Röhrig Universitätsverlag, S. 189 - 203.
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