Sigrid Jacobeit (née Dorow; born 29 January 1940) is a German ethnographer and ethnologist and agricultural scientist.
In 1979 she completed her doctorate on Working and Living Conditions of Small and Medium-Sized Women Farmers in the Nazi Era.
Jacobeit co-founded the Interdisciplinary Women's Research Group Ravensbrück Memorial - FU Berlin (IFFG), which was awarded the Margherita von Brentano Prize in 1997.
At the time of the award ceremony, Birgit Bosold, Elisabeth Böhmer, Insa Eschebach, Ursula Fuhrich-Grubert, Johanna Kootz, Irmela von der Lühe and Claudia Ulbrich were are part of this group.
[2][7] Sigrid Jacobeit took office as director of the Ravensbrück Memorial, the largest women's concentration camp in the German Reich between 1939 and 1945, in December 1992.
[8] Jacobeit facilitated the reorientation and extensive redesign of the memorial site in cooperation with those responsible in the state of Brandenburg.
The Ravensbrück Summer University was jointly launched in 2005 by Sigrid Jacobeit and the historian Stefan Hördler with the support of Johanna Wanka, Brandenburg's Minister of Science, Research and Culture at the time.