Emmy Surén

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Emmy Surén , née Krigar (born August 14, 1873 in Germany , † January 3, 1974 in Swakopmund , South West Africa ) was a German nurse and midwife in German South West Africa , now Namibia .

Life

Emmy came to the German colony in 1897 unmarried as a state-certified midwife and Red Cross sister on behalf of the Order of St. John . She answered an ad in the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger . When Rittmeister Ernst von Heynitz, who was responsible for organizing the nursing of the imperial German protection force in South West Africa , saw little sister Emmy among the other candidates, he burst out: “We need material like this wiry little sister for the tropics. The grossest parasites in Africa cannot harm them. ” Horrified by his impolite statement, he was reprimanded by colleagues, but Heynitz was more than proved right.

Sister Emmy worked successfully as a nurse and midwife in South West Africa for many years, which earned her the nicknames “ Florence Nightingale South West Africa” and “Angel South West Africa” . In 1911 she founded her own maternity hospital in Windhoek . She successfully provided obstetrics in well over 1,000 cases.

She was married to the hairdresser Johann Surén in Windhoek . She celebrated her 100th birthday in Swakopmund before she died a year later.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Agnes Van Dyk: A history of nursing in Namibia. Gamsberg Macmillan, 1997, ISBN 9789991601182 limited preview in Google Book Search
  2. ^ Colonial handbook and address book 1926–1927 [archive] - page 3. In: forum.ahnenforschung.net. May 30, 2009, accessed January 2, 2015 .
  3. ^ Leonhard von Dobschütz : Eine Farm in Afrika , unpublished manuscript in family ownership, Berlin 2009
  4. ↑ 100th birthday of Emmy Surén
  5. ↑ Ursula Massmann: Swakopmund. A chronicle of the town's people, places and progress , Society for Scientific Development and Museum, 1983, ISBN 0620062258 , page 79. Limited preview in the Google book search
  6. ^ PE Raper, LA Möller: Naamkunde-Bronnegids , Part 2, Verlag SA Naamkundesentrum, 1981, ISBN 0869656287 , page 162. Restricted preview in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Surén, Emmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krigar, Emmi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nurse and midwife in Namibia
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany
DATE OF DEATH 3rd January 1974
Place of death Swakopmund , South West Africa