Hedwig Fechheimer

She is considered to belong to the so-called Berlin School of Egyptologists which included Adolf Erman.

She was able to attend the lectures of Erman through the influence of her friend Emilie Cohen, the wife of Ludwig Borchardt, known for finding the Nefertiti Bust.

The Berlin school chose to study Egyptian text and linguistics rather than to accumulate artefacts like the British and French Egyptologists.

[2] Fechheimer was a member of the commission on Egyptian artefacts at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and in this position she supported a return of the bust of Nefertiti to Egypt.

They then lived for some time at Heilbronner Street and when deportation to a concentration camp became inescapable, she and her sister committed suicide on August 31, 1942.