DRK sorority overseas

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DRK sorority overseas
Logo DRK sisterhood.jpg
purpose Promoting public health and providing support and assistance to people in
Chair: Superior Friederike Juchter
Establishment date: June 15, 1947
Seat : Wilhelmshaven

The DRK sisterhood overseas e. V. is a non-profit registered association ; its members or employees are active in health, sick and elderly care. The sisterhood is one of 31 German Red Cross sororities . Your umbrella organization is the Association of Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross eV

history

From the ranks of the German Colonial Society , the German National Women's Association was founded in 1877 , "one of whose main tasks was the establishment of Samaritan stations and hospitals in the German colonies". At the end of April 1888, the women's union expanded its tasks to include the training and provision of sisters and equipment in the German colonies. From this point on it was called the German Women's Association for Nursing in the Colonies . For wartime, he subordinated his sisters to the Patriotic Women's Association from 1902 . At that time the association had 3,000 members in 25 departments. 42 sisters worked for the association; 22 of them in the German colonies. It was under the protectorate of the German Empress and Prussian Queen Auguste Viktoria , and later her daughter Viktoria Luise .

In 1908 the association was renamed the German Women's Association of the Red Cross for the Colonies . By 1914 the association had around 20,000 members. During the First World War , 66 sisters continued their activities in all German colonies, for example in Neupommern (three sisters), Togo (four sisters), Tsingtau (six sisters), German East Africa (16 sisters), German South West Africa (20 sisters) ) or the Marshall Islands . Here the only sister was only able to return to Germany after one and a half years in captivity . During the war, the association expanded its activities to include the welfare of prisoners of war.

Shortly after the end of the First World War, in 1919, the association was renamed the Women's Association of the Red Cross for Germans across the Sea . This joined the Red Cross in 1935 under the chairmanship of Elisabeth Duchess of Mecklenburg; he had a motherhouse on Hindenburgdamm in Berlin- Lichtenfelde. After the summary, the association called DRK-Sisterhood Übersee eV. The purpose of the sisterhood was to bring together and manage the Red Cross Sisters who were active in the German colonies . The first superior was Else Spilker, who held the office from 1935 to 1957.

Initially, the tasks were in German hospitals in Buenos Aires , São Paulo , Valparaíso and Shanghai as well as in nurses' stations in East Africa ( Tanganyika ), Cameroon , Angola and South West Africa . The sisters were exposed to health hazards. The risk of malaria, sleeping sickness or typhus was extremely high, especially in the African protected areas.

Special training focuses were the

  • Pediatric nursing
  • Gynecology
  • Midwifery training (at the gynecological clinics in Magdeburg , Berlin-Neukölln and the Berlin Charité )
  • Tropical medicine (at the tropical hospitals Hamburg - Eppendorf and Tübingen )
  • Dentistry (at the University Dental Clinic Berlin) and
  • Surgical and X-ray technology.

The motherhouse was located in Berlin, but the training of the students - also from the former south-west colonial areas - took place in other hospitals in Essen and Wilhelmshaven .

During the Second World War , the sisterhood provided around 100 nurses for the Wehrmacht medical service. These sisters worked in Finland , Africa , Russia , Hungary , Austria , the Czech Republic and in the Balkans. They were used in the nursing service in hospital trains and refugee camps. They were also active in the resettlement of Bessarabian Germans in what is now Poland .

The sisterhood's motherhouse was completely destroyed by an air mine in 1943; A temporary barrack accommodation was also later destroyed. The sisterhood was evacuated to Radebeul near Dresden . 53 members of the sororities were taken prisoner of war; two died. After the dissolution of the DRK in the Soviet zone of occupation in 1945, the members of the sisterhood fled to Wilhelmshaven. From here, new areas of work were opened up in Emden , Esens , Leer , Wittmund , Hage and Nordhorn . On the North Sea island of Norderney , the DRK Sisterhood Übersee eV was founded on June 15, 1947 and a new parent company was built there. In 1952 an agreement with the Society for Combating Cancer in São Paulo ( Brazil ) was possible. In 1956 the sisterhood moved to a newly acquired motherhouse in Berlin-Dahlem on Podbielskiallee.

In 1957, Superior Dora Müller took over the leadership of the sisterhood. Later, in 1961, she also took over the management of the DRK sisterhood in Marburg / Lahn. Since there were only a few retired sisters to look after in Berlin, the decision was made to move to Marburg. At the beginning of the 1970s there were still 31 sisters, two teachers and three housekeepers working in foreign work areas; Nevertheless, personnel bottlenecks arose - the fields of work in São Paulo and Chile could not be maintained and were lost. This brought the work in Germany to the fore.

Princess Rupprecht Home

The sisterhood remained connected to the work abroad; so sisters took part in missions in Central Africa , Jordan , on the hospital ship Helgoland , and in Pakistan .

The overseas sisterhood still has connections to Swakopmund ( Namibia ) today . The Princess Rupprecht Home , which was built in 1902 and was formerly a farmer's rest and maternity home and a children's recreation center for all age groups, is still the property of the Overseas Sisterhood to this day. There are opportunities for voluntary work as part of the weltwärts program .

Wilhelmshaven has been the seat of the sisterhood since 1999. With the Reinhard Nieter Hospital, a nursing training facility could be found here; the training opportunity expired in autumn 2013. This was followed by the establishment of an outpatient care service and support for patients with oncological diseases. A provision contract with the Reinhard Nieter Hospital ended at the end of 2015.

On September 9, 2019, the Wilhelmshaven District Court ordered an insolvency application procedure for the DRK Sisterhood Übersee eV. According to the Wilhelmshavener Zeitung , the reason for this is the high level of provisions in the company pension scheme for retired Red Cross sisters. According to the insolvency administrator responsible, over-indebtedness should have already become apparent in the 2018 annual financial statements . At the beginning of the insolvency proceedings, around 90 customers were looked after by 14 employees. For the time being, support will continue without restriction.

Superiors of the Sisterhood

  • Matron Else Spilker (1935–1957)
  • Matron Dora Müller (1957–1984)
  • Matron Heidrun Meinke (1984–1998)
  • Matron Karin Dolleck-Krey (1998-2017)
  • Matron Friederike Juchter (since May 2017); also superior of the Bremen Sisterhood of the Red Cross.

literature

  • Sophie von Uhde: German women / German sisters. Colonial work from five decades under the Red Cross . Published by the women's association for Germans across the sea. Berlin 1936
  • Hildegard von Lekow: Red Cross work in the colonies . In: The Book of the German Colonies. 2nd, improved edition. Berlin 1936, page 282 ff.
  • Sigrid Schmidt-Meinecke: The call of the hour. Sisters under the Red Cross. Stuttgart 1963
  • Bernhard Naarmann: Colonial work under the Red Cross. “The German Women's Association of the Red Cross for the Colonies” between 1888–1917 , dissertation at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, academic supervisor Richard Toellner , 1986.
  • Ludger Tewes , Red Cross Sisters Your assignment in the mobile medical service of the Wehrmacht 1939-1945, Verlag Schoeningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78257-1 .
  • Association of the sororities of the German Red Cross: Red Cross Sisters: the nursing professionals: Humanity - the idea lives. Hildesheim 2007
  • Wolfgang Eckart : The patriotic women's associations of the Red Cross using the example of the women's association for nursing in the colonies. In: Battle horrors, conventions: The Red Cross and the invention of humanity in war. Freiburg 2011, page 89 ff.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Kolonialzeitung, Volume 4, Issue No. 21 from November 1, 1887
  2. ^ Deutsche Kolonialzeitung (New Series), Volume 1, Issue No. 18 of May 5, 1888
  3. ↑ Deutsche Kolonialzeitung, Volume 19, Issue No. 20 from May 15, 1902
  4. ↑ Hildegard von Lekow: Red Cross work in the colonies. In: The Book of the German Colonies. 2nd, improved edition. Berlin 1936, page 282
  5. ^ Emil Steudel: German Women's Association of the Red Cross for the Colonies , in: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon , Volume I, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 311.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Bernhard Naarmann: Colonial work under the Red Cross. “The German Women's Association of the Red Cross for the Colonies” between 1888–1917 , dissertation Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, academic supervisor Richard Toellner , 1986, pp. 25, 26, 32.
  7. ↑ Deutsche Kolonialzeitung, Volume 35, Issue No. 9 from September 20, 1918
  8. ↑ Hildegard von Lekow: Red Cross work in the colonies . In: The Book of the German Colonies. 2nd, improved edition. Berlin 1936, page 283
  9. ^ Association of Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross eV [Hrsg.]: Red Cross Sisters: The Nursing Professionals: Humanity - the idea lives . Hildesheim 2007, page 360 ​​ff.
  10. ^ Association of Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross eV [Hrsg.]: Red Cross Sisters: The Nursing Professionals: Humanity - the idea lives . Hildesheim 2007, page 360 ​​ff.
  11. ^ Association of Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross eV [Hrsg.]: Red Cross Sisters: The Nursing Professionals: Humanity - the idea lives . Hildesheim 2007, page 360 ​​ff.
  12. ↑ Ludger Tewes: Red Cross Sisters: Their use in the mobile medical service of the Wehrmacht 1939-1945 . Paderborn 2016, page 290
  13. ^ Association of Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross eV [Hrsg.]: Red Cross Sisters: The Nursing Professionals: Humanity - the idea lives . Hildesheim 2007, page 360 ​​ff.
  14. ^ Association of Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross eV [Hrsg.]: Red Cross Sisters: The Nursing Professionals: Humanity - the idea lives . Hildesheim 2007, page 360 ​​ff.
  15. ^ Proper celebration of the 110th anniversary of the home; Allgemeine Zeitung Namibia, December 4, 2014
  16. ↑ locations in Namibia; Youth Red Cross Westphalia-Lippe ( Memento from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ^ Matron wishes the sisters to continue to be protected; Wilhelmshavener Zeitung, December 23, 2013
  18. ^ Association of Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross eV [Hrsg.]: Red Cross Sisters: The Nursing Professionals: Humanity - the idea lives . Hildesheim 2007, page 360 ​​ff.
  19. ↑ NWZonline.de November 1, 2014
  20. ↑ Justice Portal - Insolvency Announcements. Retrieved November 6, 2019 . September 9, 2019
  21. ^ Wilhelmshavener Zeitung, October 1, 2019
  22. ^ Association of Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross eV [Hrsg.]: Red Cross Sisters: The Nursing Professionals: Humanity - the idea lives . Hildesheim 2007, page 360 ​​ff .; Association sticker No. 1, year 2017, page 5