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Wilhelm Gustav Liepmann, born in Danzig in 1878, was one of the numerous German academic teachers of the Weimar Republic who had to leave the country after the National Socialists came to power in 1933 because of their Jewish relatives or their political convictions. In Halle and Berlin, Liepmann was a scholar of Ernst Bumm. His Doktorvater was Paul Ferdinand Strassmann. After his Habilitation (1907) and the appointment as Titular Professor (1918), he became Professor Extraordinarius (1921) at Friedrich-Wilhelms University and Director of the Deutsche Institut f眉r Frauenkunde 鈥淐ecilien-Haus鈥?in Berlin (1925). In 1929, the first Chair for Social Gynecology at a German university was awarded to Wilhelm Gustav Liepmann by the Prussian Ministry of Education. During his time in Germany, Liepmann published more than 22 textbooks and over 170 articles. On 15 October 1933, he was appointed as the Director of the Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Istanbul. In Istanbul he struggled for both the modernization of obstetrics and gynecology and the ideas of social gynecology. Based on unpublished Turkish documents, Liepmann鈥檚 activities in Istanbul are described for the first time. In the 1930s, Liepmann鈥檚 work led to the establishment of a first 鈥淕erman鈥?School of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Istanbul, where he died on 18 March 1939.