Erna von Abendroth

Erna von Abendroth (born February 4, 1887 in Ostritz , † September 26, 1959 in Munich ) was a German nurse.

Career

Erna von Abendroth was the daughter of Rittmeister Alexander Bernhard Ernst von Abendroth (1853-1926) and his wife Margarethe nee Hagen (1853-1940). Between January and March 1910 she studied nursing for three months and between 1914 and 1918 she worked in war nursing. After training as a nurse in 1916 as a volunteer from Albertine , Erna von Abendroth studied in Dresden and Leipzig after the First World War . In 1921, she was the first German nurse to become a doctor with a thesis on the "job of a nurse with special consideration of the Saxon conditions". phil. PhD.

Von Abendroth was a co-founder of the Dresden City Sisterhood and from 1923 its superior . In 1924 she called the “Saxon Superiors Conference” into being. She significantly influenced the establishment of a nursing school at the Johannstadt hospital . After the school closed in 1932, she left Dresden and went on lecture tours abroad. In contrast to her successor Amalie Rau , who was Reichsfachschaftsleiterin in the Third Reich and at the same time held the post of Superior of the Dresden Sisterhood, von Abendroth did not take on any function in the NS Sisterhood . In 1941 she joined the DRK Sisterhood for Overseas in Berlin. In the address book of Halle an der Saale for the year 1943, Erna von Abendroth was listed as superior in the Jenaschen Fräuleinstift at the address Rathausstrasse 15. At the age of 51 years she was there as an entitlement Exspektantin than definitive answer to her letter of application with CV, which she had previously written as a 45-year-old in terms of their future pension six years and was Stiftsdame.

After being released from American captivity as a DRK sister in 1945, von Abendroth temporarily worked as a nurse in Radebeul near Dresden . From May 1946 she headed the reconstruction of the Werner School of the German Red Cross in Göttingen . In 1951 she retired. Her successor as headmistress of the Werner School was Superior Clare Porth.

literature

Horst-Peter Wolff: Biographical Dictionary of Care History = Who what where in nursing history, Volume 1: A-Z . Ullstein Mosby, Berlin and Wiesbaden, 1997, pp. 1-2. ISBN 3-86126-628-8 .

Honors

1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

Ruth Venske: Abendroth, Erna von . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
Homepage of the Werner School in Göttingen: The management of the Werner School from the DRK This page is no longer available May 14, 2020
Brief biography of Erna von Abendroth
Ship trip to America Erna von Abendroth from Dresden in the passenger list of the "Bremen" from Bremen to New York on October 9, 1934

Individual evidence

^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Volume 73 of the complete series. Genealogical handbook of noble houses. Noble Houses B Volume XIII. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1980, p. 1 f.
↑ ^a ^b Karin Wittneben : On the situation of further training from nursing staff to nursing teachers , in: Karin Wittneben and Maria Mischo-Kelling: Pflegebildung und Pflegetheorien , Urban & Schwarzenberg Munich, 1st edition 1995, p. 255.
^ Hallesches address book with surroundings 1943, digitized by the university library Halle (Saale, part I )
↑ Kubrova, Monika: From the good life. Noble women in the 19th century, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2011 p. 369 including footnote 129; ISBN 978-3-05-005001-0 .
↑ Kubrova, Monika: From the good life. Noble women in the 19th century, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2011 p. 392, serial no. No. 100 Continuation of Table I, ISBN 978-3-05-005001-0 ; Google Books (excerpts)
↑ Christine R. Auer: Antje Grauhan and Wolfgang Rapp (Dept. Paul Christian): The expansion of the bipersonal to a tripersonal situation “patient-doctor-nurse” presented us with new challenges. Sabine Bartholomeyczik was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in May 2015. Self-published Heidelberg 2015, here also: Correspondence between Erna von Abendroth and Cläre Porth with Olga Freiin von Lersner and the sister school of the University of Heidelberg after 1948, ISBN 978-3-00-050734-2 , Grauhan-Rapp: Tripersonal approach.

personal data
SURNAME	Abendroth, Erna von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German nurse
DATE OF BIRTH	February 4, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ostritz
DATE OF DEATH	September 26, 1959
Place of death	Munich

[1] Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Volume 73 of the complete series. Genealogical handbook of noble houses. Noble Houses B Volume XIII. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1980, p. 1 f.

[KW-2] Karin Wittneben : On the situation of further training from nursing staff to nursing teachers , in: Karin Wittneben and Maria Mischo-Kelling: Pflegebildung und Pflegetheorien , Urban & Schwarzenberg Munich, 1st edition 1995, p. 255.

[3] Hallesches address book with surroundings 1943, digitized by the university library Halle (Saale, part I )

[4] Kubrova, Monika: From the good life. Noble women in the 19th century, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2011 p. 369 including footnote 129; ISBN 978-3-05-005001-0 .

[5] Kubrova, Monika: From the good life. Noble women in the 19th century, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2011 p. 392, serial no. No. 100 Continuation of Table I, ISBN 978-3-05-005001-0 ; Google Books (excerpts)

[6] Christine R. Auer: Antje Grauhan and Wolfgang Rapp (Dept. Paul Christian): The expansion of the bipersonal to a tripersonal situation “patient-doctor-nurse” presented us with new challenges. Sabine Bartholomeyczik was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in May 2015. Self-published Heidelberg 2015, here also: Correspondence between Erna von Abendroth and Cläre Porth with Olga Freiin von Lersner and the sister school of the University of Heidelberg after 1948, ISBN 978-3-00-050734-2 , Grauhan-Rapp: Tripersonal approach.