Margaretha Hedwig Zuelzer was baptized as a Christian in 1916. Starting in 1916 she worked for Germany’s Imperial Health Office, later known as the Reichsgesundheitsamt. In 1918 she received the merit cross for war aid (Kriegshilfe) for her bacteriological research. In 1920, she became department head at the Berliner Protozoenlaboratorium. In 1933, she was suspended from this position because of her Jewish ancestry. She resumed her research in Copenhagen in May 1934. In 1939, she finally left Germany and found a job at the Institute for Tropical Hygiene at the Colonial Institute in Amsterdam. The director of the institute, with whom she had been working since 1926, made unsuccessful attempts to obtain an exemption from deportation for her in 1942 and 1943.
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After she passed away Margarethe Hedwig Zuelzer was cremated in Westerbork. Her urn was placed in the Jewish cemetery in Diemen. The urn was placed on field U, row 11, grave nr. 22. Margarethe Hedwig Zuelzer was a doctor in biology. She was single.
Register van joden die in het kamp Westerbork zijn gecremeerd, 1943-1944; archief van de gemeente Westerbork, opgenomen in het archief van de gemeente Midden-Drenthe te Beilen, inv. n 3789