Frida Becher from Rüdenhof

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Frida Becher von Rüdenhof (born September 30, 1874 in Vienna ; † November 5, 1951 there ) was an Austrian doctor, women's rights activist and victim of Nazi persecution.

Life

Frida Becher von Rüdenhof was born as Frida Perels. The parents were Rose († 1882) and Emil Perels (1837-1893). The father was an engineer and university professor, initially for agricultural machine technology at the Martin Luther University in Halle / Saale, later he became rector of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. Frida first completed the teachers' seminar in Berlin. In 1910, at the age of 36, she graduated from high school in Graz and then studied medicine in Vienna. This was followed by her medical doctorate in 1915. From 1915 to 1918 Frida Becher von Rüdenhof was an assistant doctor at the Sophienhospital in Vienna with Nikolaus Jagić (1875–1956), between 1920 and 1922 then an assistant doctor at the Vienna Polyclinic. At the same time, after the First World War , she set up her own practice for internal medicine and paediatrics. In 1937 she received the title of Medical Councilor. From 1938 Frida Becher von Rüdenhof worked as a specialist in Vienna 8, Florianigasse 15. Also from 1938 she was employed as a doctor treating the Jewish population in Vienna. According to Nazi laws, she was Jewish.

Frida Becher von Rüdenhof also worked as a translator and travel writer. In 1904 she took part in the 28th Language and Literature Congress in the Netherlands.

Frida Becher von Rüdenhof survived the Holocaust .

Engagement in the Viennese women's movement

Frida Becher von Rüdenhof was a member of the Vienna Settlement Association in Ottakring and was involved in this context for impoverished children and for further training for their mothers. This aid organization, Verein Wiener Settlement, was founded by the Viennese Maria Lang (1858–1934) and Else Federn (1873–1946), the sister of the Viennese psychoanalyst Paul Federn (1871–1950). Frida Becher von Rüdenhof was a member of the Austrian Medical Organization (OÄÖ) founded on February 9, 1919. As a representative of Austrian doctors, she took part in the 4th International Congress of Women Doctors in Vienna in 1931 and in the 7th International Congress of Women Doctors in Stockholm in 1934. The President of the Organization of Doctors in Vienna, Marianne Bauer Jokl (1885–1980) and Dora Brücke-Teleky (1879–1963) were also participants in these two congresses in Vienna and Stockholm. Frida Becher von Rüdenhof was active in the bourgeois women's movement in Vienna and advocated the employment of women. In the 1930s she was the head of the marriage counseling center in the Austrian Women's Party, founded under the leadership of Marianne Hainisch (1839-1936), and took part in their meetings as a speaker.

family

Frida Perels was married to the general of the Imperial and Royal Army, Carl Ritter Becher von Rüdenhof (1867–1945). The couple had a daughter, Hertha Becher von Rüdenhof. She also became a doctor and trained as a pediatrician at the children's clinic from Clemens von Pirquet (1874–1929). She was banned from working in Vienna in 1939 by the National Socialists. She survived the Holocaust. The brother of Frida Becher von Rüdenhof, Emil Perels (1889–1944) was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp . Frida Perels' uncle was the military lawyer and maritime lawyer Ferdinand Perels (1836–1903). He was a baptized Jew.

Publications

  • As translator: Die Judengemeinde von Saloniki , Völkerschau 1904.
  • Clinical observations in pleurisy, Wiener Medical Wochenschrift 1918.
  • On the hematology of the flu , 1919.
  • A case of spontaneous healing in general hydrops , Wiener Medical Wochenschrift 1934.

literature

  • Ingrid Arias: "... and in reality it was a coincidence that you stayed alive ...". The fate of the Jewish doctors in Vienna 1938–1945. In: “In the service of public health”. Women - Health Care - National Socialism, Vienna 2006, p. 31 f.
  • Walter Mentzel: Frida Becher von Rüdenhof (1874–1951) - doctor - women's rights activist - victims of Nazi persecution. In: VanSwietenBlog, University Library Medical University of Vienna, June 4, 2020. Digitized

Web links

  • ÖNB: Women in Motion 1848–1938: Frida Becher Rüdenhof , accessed on June 6, 2020. Digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Walter Mentzel: Frida Becher von Rüdenhof (1874–1951) - doctor - women's rights activist - victims of Nazi persecution. In: VanSwietenBlog, University Library Medical University of Vienna, June 4, 2020. Digitized
  2. ↑ Ingrid Arias: "... and in reality it was a coincidence that you stayed alive ...". The fate of the Jewish doctors in Vienna 1938–1945. In: “In the service of public health”. Women - Health Care - National Socialism, Vienna 2006, p. 31 f.
  3. ↑ Annual report of the New Women's Club. Vienna 1904.
personal data
SURNAME Mug from Rüdenhof, Frida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perels, Frida (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor, women's rights activist and victims of Nazi persecution
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1951
Place of death Vienna , Austria