Elisabeth Gesche
Elisabeth Gesche (born January 17, 1924 in Funchal , Madeira ) is a German nurse and former honorary consul of Madeira.
She came as the daughter of the businessman Emil Gesche and his wife Dorothea, b. Sattler, to the world. The consular mission of Germany in Madeira had been in the care of the family from the second half of the 19th century . Her grandfather came to the island around 1860 and took over the post of German honorary consul in 1876. In this office he was followed in 1910 by his son-in-law Emil. Elisabeth Gesche was confirmed in Madeira in 1939. Her brother Kurt Gesche moved to Germany in 1933 and was killed on August 18, 1943 when the submarine U-403 was sunk off Dakar.
Elisabeth Gesche trained as a nurse in Stuttgart from 1948 to 1950 and then worked in a hospital. In 1951 she returned to Madeira and worked in a private clinic. In 1967 she took over the office of honorary consul from her father in the third generation and held it until May 29, 1997. Gesche has set up a private naval museum in a large room in her Quinta Olava house in Funchal.
Honors
- 1984: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1997: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel (ed.): Who is who ?: The German Who's Who , Volume 28 - Schmidt-Römhild, 1989
- German consular dynasty on Madeira resigns , In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 22, 1997, No. 116, p. 22
Individual evidence
- ^ Report on the Protestant parish on Madeira
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Madeira: The capital Funchal Madeira 8/2009 on merian.de
- ↑ Funchal in Madeira: A tendency to happiness on Spiegel Online from August 18, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gesche, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nurse |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Funchal , Madeira |