Barbara von Renthe-Fink

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Annemarie Barbara Dorothea von Renthe-Fink , actually von Renthe, called Fink (born September 25, 1901 in Berlin , † October 14, 1983 in West Berlin ), was a German doctor and health politician ( SPD ).

Live and act

After the suicide of her father, bank director Timon von Renthe, called Fink (1869–1913), she moved to Berlin with her mother. She passed her Abitur at the Cecilienschule in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . She then studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg , Munich and Kiel . She received her doctorate in 1928. At first von Renthe-Fink was an assistant doctor in Glauchau . She fled briefly to Switzerland when the National Socialists came to power . In 1933 she established herself as a gynecologist with her own practice in Chemnitz .

After the Second World War Renthe-Fink was initially city ​​councilor for health in Chemnitz. At the end of 1946 she was appointed to the German Central Administration for Healthcare in Berlin . She was one of the members of the founding congress of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD) and was a member of the German People's Council for the DFD . From 1949 she worked as a department head at the Berlin Insurance Company . The doctor later worked in the Senate Administration for Health Care , from 1960 as Senate Director . When she retired in 1967, she took on the position of Vice President of the German Red Cross (DRK) Berlin.

Her grave is in the Columbiadamm cemetery in Berlin-Neukölln .

Fonts

As old as the century. Life report of a Berlin doctor. RG Fischer, Frankfurt (Main) 1982, ISBN 3-88323-340-4 .

Honors

In 1967 Renthe-Fink was to be awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. But she refused the honor because the new Senate Albertz II had decided to merge the Senate administrations for health and for youth and sport.

Remarks

  1. ↑ See birth certificate, Landesarchiv Berlin, P Rep. 804, no. 601, p. 191, entry no. 1137.
  2. ↑ The spelling of the name see Leipziger Adreßbuch, vol. 90; Leipzig: August Scherl 1911, p. 23 and 667.
  3. ↑ Year of birth see baptismal register of the Berlin Garrison Church , year 1869, 2nd half of the year, p. 23, no. 94. - For year of death see Berliner Börsen-Zeitung, year 1913, no. 73 (Thursday, February 13, 1913, morning edition) , P. 12.

literature

  • Bettina Michalski: Louise Schroeder's sisters: Berlin social democrats of the post-war period. Dietz, Bonn 1996, page 205 f.
personal data
SURNAME Renthe-Fink, Barbara von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Renthe-Fink, Annemarie Barbara Dorothea von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and health politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1983
Place of death West Berlin