Helga Eggemann studied art history and received her doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1941.
From 1941 to 1944 she worked for the Nazi looting organisation the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (ERR) in France.
[4] Other studies have found that Eggemann was not only involved in but organized the plunder of French Jewish collectors.
[5] Eggemann was also involved in the looting from Raoul Meyer the Camille Pissarro entitled Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep (“La bergère rentrant des moutons”)[6] and the Schwob d'Héricourt collection[7] among others.
According to the French government's Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume (Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg) dozens of artworks looted from private Jewish collectors in France were inventoried by Eggemann for the Nazis.