Postage stamp: Women of German History - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1989 - 140 Pfennig

With »Women of German History« the Deutsche Bundespost replaces the series »Industry and Technology« begun in 1975/76. The new series is intended to help raise awareness of women's achievements in society. The new stamps will be published simultaneously and with the same motifs in the issues »Deutsche Bundespost« and »Deutsche Bundespost Berlin«. Cécile Vogt, born Mugnier, was born on 27 March 1875 in Annécy in Haute-Savoie. She was only two years old when her father died. Very early on, she distinguished herself by her own independent and unconventional way of thinking. She was one of the few female students admitted to medical school. She studied with the neurologist Pierre Marie in Paris and met there Oskar Vogt, whom she married in 1899 in Germany. Cécile and Oskar Vogt quickly became a household name in German brain research as they published most of the scientific papers together. With her husband, she succeeded in 1920 the first comprehensive description of the striären system, which was later called extrapyramidal-motor system and its damage leads to disorders of motor skills such as chorea ("Veitstanz") and Parkinsonism ("shaking palsy"). Together, they explored the cerebral cortex in a stimulus physiologically and anatomically. For the first time, an assignment of stimulus effects to architecturally defined fields of the cerebral cortex was achieved. The work was initially performed in the Neurological Central Station in Berlin, founded by Oskar Vogt in 1898. In 1931, the large, multidisciplinary Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research was founded in Berlin-Buch, whose director was Oskar Vogt, while Cécile Vogt headed the anatomical department. For political reasons, they had to resign from the institute in 1936, but did not resign and opened in 1937 the Institute for Brain Research and General Biology in Neustadt in the Black Forest, which they led until the death of Oskar Vogt in 1959. Cécile Vogt moved to her daughter Marthe Vogt, an internationally known neuropharmacologist, and died there on 4 May 1962. (Text: Prof. Dr. Adolf Hopf, C. and O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research, University of Dusseldorf)