Elly Schürmann
Elly Schürmann (* around 1924 in a village near Eisleben ) is a former Red Cross (DRK) nurse . In 1989 she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal .
Life
During the Second World War she worked as a nurse. In the spring of 1945 she accompanied war wounded from the hospital on Prague's Hradschin on train trips to Austria . After the end of the war she was a US prisoner of war and then returned to her home in the Mansfeld region. She became a community nurse and was particularly busy with the care of resettlers and returnees and those suffering from typhus or dysentery .
She then moved to the Mansfeld Combine , where she worked as a company sister. She drove into the copper shafts with miners, took data on the climate and dust exposure underground, complained about abuses in occupational safety , trained members of the mine rescue and instructed apprentices in the field of first aid .
In 1952 she was one of the founding members of the German Red Cross of the GDR .
After separating from her husband, she moved to Belzig with her son Peter , where she worked as a senior nurse in the district hospital. In the mid-1970s, she took over the full-time position as DRK district secretary. For many years she has been very committed to government, company and medical authorities in order to achieve better health care and training.
Even after she retired, she worked in the DRK station service at Belzig station until the 1990s .
Awards
In October 1989 she was presented with the Florence Nightingale Medal of the International Red Cross in the Berlin House of Ministries . The current camera , the central news program of the television of the GDR , reported on the award.
Works
- Studies of the health and nutritional status of acid and lead workers , 1947
literature
- Edda Liebold: Miss Elly at the Belziger train station. In: Belziger Heimatkalender '91, district administration Belzig, AG Kultur, p. 17 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Meritorious friends of the DRK of the GDR honored. In: Neues Deutschland , October 20, 1989, p. 4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schürmann, Elly |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nurse |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Village near Eisleben |