Barbara Borsinger

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Barbara Borsinger (* 1892 in Baden ; † August 9, 1972 in Beinwil in the canton of Aargau ) was a Swiss nurse and refugee helper in Geneva .

Life

Barbara Borsinger comes from a family of hoteliers in the spa district of Baden. Her parents were Joseph Anton Borsinger (1855-1926) from Baden and Hedwig Beck (1862-1922) from Sursee . She attended a private school in Austria with her sister Hilde Vérène Borsinger . She then stayed on the Isle of Wight for further training . From 1911 to 1914 she trained in nursing at the Bon-Secours school in Geneva. After the beginning of the First World War, she went to France to provide medical aid to the wounded behind the battle fronts. She then remained in the service of the hospital in the seaside town of Dinard in Brittany until 1920 .

When the Spanish flu in Geneva had killed many people since 1918 , Borsinger returned to the city and began to look after sick and orphaned children. In Carouge she founded the day nursery "L'œuvre des Amis de l'Enfance", whose supervisors she trained herself. Later, the day nursery had to change location several times until it finally found its permanent home in a country house in Grange-Canal on the outskirts of Geneva.

From 1933 onwards, Barbara Borsinger directed the construction of a hospital for adults as an extension of the institution, which was soon known under the popular name "la Poup" and eventually took on the name "Clinique des Grangettes". During the Second World War, the Amis de l'Enfance institution, headed by Barbara Borsinger together with the doctors Viola von Riederer and Bianca Stiegler and the paediatricians Albert Mégevand and Fred Bamatter, took in numerous refugee children. When she resigned in 1968, Borsinger left her social work to the Congregation of the Menzinger Sisters , who played an important role in nursing in Switzerland and had been running the institute in Geneva since 1957.

Barbara Borsinger campaigned for professional and feminist issues in public and maintained contacts with personalities in the Geneva region such as the writers Robert Musil and Rainer Maria Rilke . She died on August 9, 1972 in Horben am Lindenberg Castle in the canton of Aargau, a country estate of the Borsinger family in Baden.

Honors

During the First World War, Barbara Borsinger was awarded the Médaille de la Reconnaissance française and the Belgian Médaille de la pure Elisabeth .

literature

  • Christophe Gros: Barbara Borsinger. In: Erica Deuber Ziegler (among others): Les femmes dans la mémoire de Genève du XVe au XXe siècle. Geneva 2005, pp. 219-220.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fred Ammann: Genealogical index of dynastic hoteliers and restaurateurs families. Issue 5, Grenchen 1976, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Gilles Rufenacht: La clinique des Grangettes. In: Immoscope - Les Trois-Chênes , No. 122. 2014.
  3. ↑ Les religieuses ont quitté les Grangettes. In: Journal de Genève , December 30, 1978.
  4. ↑ In 1978 the house was transferred from the Menzing sisters to a medical group.
  5. ↑ Obituary for Barbara Borsinger in: Journal de Genève , August 12, 1972.
  6. ^ Obituary notice for Barbara Borsinger in: Journal de Genève. August 12, 1972.
personal data
SURNAME Borsinger, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss nurse and refugee worker in Geneva
DATE OF BIRTH 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH to bathe
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1972
Place of death Beinwil , Canton of Aargau