Elsbeth Steinheil (married name Franz) (10 July 1893 - 1955) was the first German woman to graduate in mechanical engineering, qualifying in 1917 from the Technical University of Munich.
In 1913, she passed her Abitur (secondary education examinations) as an external student at the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium.
[2] Steinheil then studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich.
"[1] Elsbeth stopped working at the company shortly after she married, which disappointed her father, who lamented her "relapse into atavistic tendencies".
[2][3] Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) named a room for Steinheil in 2022, alongside ones for Elisabeth von Knobelsdorff, the first woman in Germany to earn a degree from a technical university, graduating in architecture in 1911, and Verena Wein-Wilke, who was the first woman to graduate from the TUHH, also in architecture.