German Hospital (London)
The German Hospital London was a German hospital in the London Borough of Hackney .
history
At the time of the pre-march , many of the 30,000 German immigrants in England were living in poor conditions in East London . Most of them did not speak the English language . At the instigation of a pastor and a doctor and with the support of rich Englishmen, the German Hospital was built for them. The great sponsors included Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge , the Prussian ambassador Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen and the businessman Friedrich Andreas Huth . When it opened on October 15, 1845, the house had twelve beds. It was later expanded to four wards with 40 beds. The polyclinic was also open to English patients. A sanatorium was attached . Friedrich Wilhelm Beneke , later a founder of the seaside resort in Germany, was a senior doctor from 1849 to 1851. The Kaiserswerther Diakonie provided the nurses from 1846 to 1857. From 1864 to 1894 the deaconesses came from the Elisabethenstift in Darmstadt, and from 1894 from the Sarepta parent company in Bethel. Impressed by two visits, Florence Nightingale went to Kaiserswerth for training in 1851.
In 1864 new buildings with 100 beds were put into operation. They proved their worth in the fever epidemics of the 1860s and 1870s. In 1890 the house had 142 beds. The first and long-time treasurer of the sponsoring association was the banker Baron John Henry Schröder . The Schroders asset management company, which he founded in 1804, remained one of the most important supporters of the hospital's work for decades. In 1907/08 Antoni Jurasz began his surgical training at the German Hospital. A sister house was built in 1911 and another building block in 1912 . It stayed open during the First World War . The German staff cared for the wounded .
The house was modernized and expanded in the interwar period . As the number of Germans in London declined, more beds were needed for locals. The new five-storey main building from 1936 with 192 beds was intended for obstetrics and pediatrics . Both the equipment and the construction with roof gardens were considered exemplary. For his financing of the new building, Bruno Schröder was honored on his 70th birthday in 1937 with an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg . During the Second World War , the German personnel were interned on the Isle of Man in 1940 . Since then, the house has only been “German” in name. In 1948 the National Health Service came into being with 217 beds . Run by the City and Hackney Health Authority since 1974 , the house has been transformed into a clinic for psychiatry and geriatrics . When operations were relocated to Homerton University Hospital in 1987, the German Hospital closed.
literature
- Christiane Swinbank: Medicine, Philanthropy and Religion. Selective Intercultural Transfers at the German Hospital in London, 1845–1914 . In: Stefan Manz, Margit Schulte Beerbühl, John R. Davis (eds.): Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain 1660–1914 (= Prinz-Albert-Forschungen / Prince Albert Research Publications, Vol. 3). Munich 2007, pp. 119–130.
- Horst A. Wessel : Düsseldorf and the German Hospital in London . In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch, Vol. 73 (2002), pp. 175–217.
- Keir Waddington: Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898 (= Studies in History. New Series). Woodbridge 2000.
- Elizabeth McKellar: The German Hospital Hackney: a social and architectural history, 1845-1987 . Hackney Society Publications, London 1991.
- Jürgen Püschel: The history of the German Hospital in London (1845 to 1948) (= studies on the history of the hospital system, Vol. 14). Munster 1980.
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- German Hospital, Dalston, NE: Supported by Voluntary Contributions ... Opened 15th October, 1845, for the reception of the natives of Germany. 6th annual report 1850 ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Zeitung, No. 269 (1849)
- ↑ German Hospital (NHS) ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Lost Hospitals of London
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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 49.6 ″ N , 0 ° 4 ′ 1.6 ″ W.