Gertrud Baltzer
Gertrud Baltzer (born May 25, 1900 in Rheydt , † September 4, 1993 in Mönchengladbach ) was a German nurse and superior of the DRK sorority Maingau.
Gertrud Baltzer was born on May 25, 1900 in Rheydt, and completed her training as a nurse at the Red Cross Mother House in Märkisches Haus for Nursing in Berlin. There she then worked as a ward nurse . After training to prepare for managerial positions, she moved to the Charité as head nurse . Together with Gerda von Freyhold she worked on the re-establishment of the Brandenburg DRK Sisterhood, which replaced the civic Charité Sisterhood of 1907 with the onset of National Socialism . In 1939 she was assigned to the mobile Wehrmacht medical service and was the first nurse to be appointed field superior, who headed all the nurses in the medical service.
In 1941 she moved to the Maingau DRK sisterhood as superior. At the same time, she also became the head of nursing at the associated hospital in Frankfurt am Main . Her work in the reconstruction of the badly damaged hospital and the nurses' quarters led to her being awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal in 1965. She died on September 4, 1993 in Mönchengladbach.
literature
- Horst-Peter Wolff: Biographical Lexicon for the History of Care , Ullstein Mosby, 1997, ISBN 3-86126-628-8 . Pp. 9-10
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| SURNAME | Baltzer, Gertrud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nurse and winner of the Florence Nightingale Medal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheydt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th September 1993 |
| Place of death | Mönchengladbach |