Hedwig von Rittberg

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Grave in the old cemetery Klein-Glienicke in Potsdam-Babelsberg

Auguste Leopoldine Hedwig Countess von Rittberg (born December 30, 1839 in Liegnitz in Silesia; † April 4, 1896 in Nowawes, today Potsdam-Babelsberg ) was a German nurse and founder of the "Auxiliary Sisters Association".

Hedwig von Rittberg was the daughter of the royal Prussian major Count August von Rittberg and Henriette von Rittberg, nee. from network. After her father had rejected her dream of becoming a deaconess , she took care of sick relatives. During the Austro-Prussian War (1866) she completed a nurse training course in the cuirassier barracks in Breslau . For the subsequent three-month war Nursing in Horitz (Horice) and Gitschin she was awarded the Order of Louise first class. In 1870, at the request of the Prussian Queen Augusta, she became superior of the newly built "Augusta Hospital" in Berlin . There she took care of German and French wounded during the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71), for which she received the war memorial for non-combatants , the Cross of Merit of France and the Bavarian Cross of Merit for women and virgins.

In 1873 she returned to Liegnitz, where she passed a pharmaceutical exam at the medical authorities. On October 1st, 1875 , she founded the “Auxiliary Sisters Association” in Berlin, which was recognized in 1882 by Kaiser Wilhelm I as a public welfare institution .

After the death of the Countess von Rittberg, the “Auxiliary Sisters Association” was renamed “Countess Rittbergscher Auxiliary Sisters Association” and then to the “Countess Rittberg Sisters Association of the Red Cross”. In 1975 the association was part of the “ DRK Sisterhood Berlin ”.

The Rittberg Hospital (the sororities of the Red Cross) in Berlin-Lichterfelde was named after her.

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SURNAME Rittberg, Hedwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rittberg, Auguste Leopoldine Hedwig Countess von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nurse
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1896
Place of death Potsdam-Babelsberg