Sibylla Flügge

Sibylla Flügge (born 1950, Clausthal-Zellerfeld) is a German lawyer and retired professor at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in the field of “Law of the Woman".

[1][2] As a teenager, Flügge joined the left-wing student movement, took part in demonstrations and Easter Marches and was head girl at the Sophienschule Hannover, where she graduated from high school in 1969.

In 1990 she became a consultant for health policy and prostitution in the Women's Department of the city of Frankfurt am Main, which was then newly founded by Margarethe Nimsch.

[5] After her doctorate in 1994, Flügge was appointed professor with a focus on women's rights at the University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt am Main, where she worked in the department from 1994 to 2015.

[10] According to her own statements, Sybilla Flügge, together with the American psychoanalyst and then student Jessica Benjamin, advocated making personal experiences the starting point for social analysis and politics.

[12] Flügge worked on a voluntary basis on the board of the Frankfurt Institute for Women's Research, was a long-time member of the advisory board of the Frankfurt Feminist Women's Health Center and was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Women's Studies and Education Center of the Protestant Church in Germany (FSBZ, today Study Center for Gender Issues in Church and Theology).