| Anna Helene Boyksen | |
| Birth Date: | 11 August 1881 |
| Birth Place: | Havendorfersand, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, German Empire |
| Death Date: | 1920 (aged 39) |
| Nationality: | German |
| Other Names: | Anna Helene Koch |
| Known For: | First female engineering student at the Technical University of Munich |
Anna Helene Koch (Boyksen; 11 August 1881 – 1920) was the first female engineering student at the Technical University of Munich.[1]
Anna Boyksen was born on 11 August 1881 in Havendorfersand, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, to Dietrich Anton Boyksen, a merchant, and his wife Mathilde, née Lubben. In her curriculum vitae, Boyksen claimed her nationality as Bavarian and religion as evangelical.[2]
In 1906, she enrolled in the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Technical University of Munich and obtained the Vordiplom two years later.[3] [4] She then studied economics and law at the University of Erlangen. In 1911, she defended her dissertation, titled Die deutschen Börsenordnungen. Eine vergleichende Darstellung (The German Stock Exchange Regulations. A Comparative Representation), under her married name Anna Helene Koch.[5]
The Anna Boyksen Diversity Research Center at TUM "explores human diversity and the opportunities of diversity for society. Its work focuses on a question often overlooked in Germany: How can the natural, engineering and life sciences benefit from a more diverse community culture?"[6]
The Anna Boyksen Fellowship[7] has been offered by the TUM Institute for Advanced Study since 2014. The Fellowship is granted to outstanding international scholars and researchers who wish to probe gender / diversity-related problems in the Natural and Engineering Sciences, in collaboration with TUM researchers. The two-year Fellowship was created to help advance TUM's goal to become "Germany's most attractive university for women" and to foster a productive and durable exchange of ideas and solutions on an international level.[4]