Hans Martz (medic, 1888)

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Hans Martz (born November 8, 1888 in Grellingen , † May 2, 1954 in Riehen ) was a Swiss doctor and reformist in the nursing sector in Switzerland.

Life

Hans Martz received his doctorate in 1915 from the University of Basel with a thesis on a "typhus bacillus carrier that has been excreted for 55 years". Then he was assistant to the surgeon César Roux (1857-1934) in Lausanne. After the end of the war in 1918, Martz took over the medical management of the “Erzenberg” sanatorium in Langenbruck and opened a country practice there. He married Martha Forrer and had children with her. Martz ran his own practice in Riehen from 1924 and gave "lessons for the training of sisters at the Riehen deaconess institution built by the deaconess Trinette Bindschedler (1825–1879) ". He was also a course instructor at the Riehen Samaritan Association and was its president for many years.

Martz was a major in the Swiss Army and moved in 1939 "as the commander of the internal section of the Military Medical Establishment 5 in Lucerne ". At the end of 1941 he was appointed Deputy Head of the Red Cross . One of his tasks was to rebuild the voluntary nursing system "for the needs of the army". In 1944 he helped initiate a nurses' secretariat (today the “Nursing Department”) “in the office of the Swiss Red Cross in Bern”, and “in 1945, at his suggestion, the Swiss Red Cross created the“ Nursing Commission ”, which he led“ imaginatively ” . In the autumn of the same year he chaired “the working conference of the national Red Cross societies in Geneva”.

With Madeleine Comtesse (1910–1984), who was enforced by Hans Martz as the head of the central nurses' secretariat, a nurse was entitled to vote on the executive bodies of the Swiss Red Cross for the first time.

In 1953, the Assembly of Delegates of the Swiss Red Cross named him an honorary member “for his great services that he had rendered to the Swiss Red Cross” .

The nursing tradition of the Martz family was carried on by his daughter, who completed her nursing training at the renowned nursing school "Lindenhof" in Bern. Hans Martz's sister, Helene Martz, had already been a superior here.

literature

  • Wilhelm Lutz: Nekrolog. In: Swiss Medical Weekly . Vol. 84 (1954), H. 32, p. 931.
  • Hugo Remund : Dr. med. Hans Martz. In: Jahrbuch z'Rieche Vol. 5 (1965), pp. 54-62 ( online ).
  • Magdelaine Comtesse: Dr. Martz in the memory of his employees in the Red Cross. In: Jahrbuch z'Rieche 1965, pp. 63–67 ( online )
  • Volker Klimpel : Hans Martz . In: Hubert Kolling (ed.): Biographical lexicon on nursing history “Who was who in nursing history” , volume seven, hpsmedia Hungen 2015, p. 181 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Volker Klimpel : Hans Martz . In: Hubert Kolling (ed.): Biographical lexicon on nursing history “Who was who in nursing history” , volume seven, hpsmedia Hungen 2015, p. 181 f.
  2. ↑ See correspondence in the Burgerbibliothek Bern
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hugo Remund : Dr. med. Hans Martz. In: z'Rieche. A home yearbook. Vol. 5 (1965), pp. 54-62.
personal data
SURNAME Martz, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Grellingen
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1954
Place of death Riehen