Dorothea Menadier (11 December 1891 – 24 March 1944) was a German medievalist and numismatist, who studied the coinage of women's monastic houses.
[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.
Menadier analysed the coins and coinage of medieval German nunneries and abbesses, a topic that had been suggested by her father.
[6] She died on 24 March 1944 at the age of 52 when an aerial bomb hit her house in Berlin-Lichterfelde.