Elisabeth Leist

Elisabeth Leist (born December 11, 1917 in Zweibrücken ; † May 18, 2001 in Karlsruhe ) was a German infant sister , superior of the University Children's Hospital in Heidelberg and superior of the Baden Sisterhood of the Red Cross, archivist and nursing historian.

Life

Elisabeth Leist was born as the daughter of the District School Board Franz Leist and his wife Magdalena. In her hometown she attended elementary school, the municipal girls' college up to secondary school leaving certificate in 1933 and the women's work school. On October 1, 1936, she received an apprenticeship as an infant and toddler nurse at the school of the University Clinic in Heidelberg, which at the time of her application was still under the medical direction of Ernst Moro . In 1938 she received state recognition as an infant and toddler nurse from the Baden state government. From 1939 to January 1945 she worked as a ward nurse in the university children's clinic. In 1942 Elisabeth Leist joined the “Badische Sisterhood of the Red Cross ( Luis Sisters )”, which was headed by Superior Anna Odenwald . After training as a nurse in Mannheim in 1946, she contracted an occupational disease in an infection ward. Therefore she was called back to the mother house in Karlsruhe, where she worked as the second teaching nurse at the nursing school of her association. This was followed by a qualification measure for managerial tasks in nursing in the Werner School of the German Red Cross in Göttingen.

In March 1952, Elisabeth Leist became head superior of the University Children's Hospital in Heidelberg. During her term of office, the new construction of the children's clinic in Neuenheimer Feld took place. On October 1, 1976, Elisabeth Leist became the successor of Anna Odenwald as superior of the Baden Sisterhood of the Red Cross in Karlsruhe. Elisabeth Leist retired in September 1989. She devoted herself to the archive of the Karlsruhe parent company and put the images and documents left behind in an organized archive. She presented the most important pieces from it in Karlsruhe in an exhibition that was opened on the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the sisterhood in November 2000. The importance of her archival and museum processing of the historical legacy of the oldest Red Cross Sisterhood was reflected in the scientific use in a dissertation on Mathilde von Horn and in a photo book that appeared in 2002. Elisabeth Leist worked on a voluntary basis in the specialist committee of pediatric nurses in the German Society for Social Pediatrics as the first secretary. Elisabeth Leist died of a stroke.

literature

• Patricia Feise: Obituary for Oberin Elisabeth Leist, Baden Sisterhood of the Red Cross, Karlsruhe 2001.
• Karin Wittneben : Announcement about publications by Elisabeth Leist in the Deutsche Schwesternzeitung - magazine for sick and child care , September 19, 2001.
• Horst-Peter Wolff and Jutta Wolff: Elisabeth Leist , in: Horst-Peter Wolff (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon for the history of care. “Who was who in nursing history”, Volume 3, Elsevier Munich 2004, pp. 178–179.

Honor

• Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in August 1989

Web links

• DRK Badische Sisterhood History: 1976–1988 Oberin Elisabeth Leist , accessed on December 23, 2017.
• Finding aid 69 Badische Schwesternschaft No. 2261 , accessed on December 23, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Finding aid 69 of the Baden Sisterhood of the Red Cross No. 2261: Documentation by Superior Elisabeth Leist about the archive and the museum of the Baden Sisterhood of the Red Cross .
2. ↑ Martina Glad houses: Superior General Mathilde von Horn. A life in the service of the Baden Red Cross, dissertation Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, academic advisor Wolfgang U. Eckart , Heidelberg 2003.
3. ↑ Birgit Panke-Kochinke and Monika Schaidhammer-Placke: Front Sisters and Friedensengel. War nursing in the First and Second World Wars. A source and photo volume , Mabuse Frankfurt am Main 2002.