Angel maker
Since around 1920, an angel maker has been used in the older colloquial language to describe a person who illegally abortions . Doctors , midwives or healers , but also people who are not medically trained, can act as “angel makers” . They often perform their interventions under hygienically questionable conditions and without the necessary knowledge and care, so that complications (e.g. bleeding , infections or infertility ) can result. Also deaths of pregnant women came and come before. These people often perform abortions with non-medical instruments (e.g. knitting needles ) or chemicals and household remedies (e.g. ( poisonous ) plants or soapy water ).
In countries with legal options for abortion, Engelmacher may still be active if the deadline for the legal abortion has been exceeded.
From the beginning of the 19th century, a woman who deliberately let small and especially illegitimate foster children die (“turned into angels ”) in order to enrich herself with the care allowance was called an angel maker .
See also
Web links
- Hugo Friedländer , a dehumanized woman. The angel maker Wiese. in: Interesting criminal trials of cultural and historical importance. 1911-1921, Vol. 1, pp. 150-163. http://www.zeno.org/nid/20003606937
- Karl Henckell : The angel maker, in: Collected works. Volume 2: Buch des Kampfes, Munich 1921, pp. 35–36. http://www.zeno.org/nid/2000503616X
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Aleš Půda: On the theory of loan coinage in German-Czech language contact: a historical-comparative study in the inner-Slavic and European context, Peter Lang AG , 2010, p. 195 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ^ A b Sigrid Luchtenberg: Euphemisms in today's German . With a contribution to German as a foreign language . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-8204-5419-5 (dissertation: University of Bonn 1975 under the title: Sigrid Luchtenberg: Investigation of euphemisms in contemporary German ).