Hilde Westrick

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Hilde Westrick (* 1900 in Lemberg ; † 1981 ; born Freiin von Odelga ) was an Austrian doctor.

Career

Hilde von Odelga was born as the daughter of an Austrian major general in Lemberg, where her father was stationed as a battalion commander with the high and German champions . At the request of her father, who had spoken out against the medical studies she had hoped for, she studied music in Vienna. As a young girl she had already composed a mass that was also performed.

In Vienna she met the young foreign merchant Ludger Westrick (1894–1990). They both married and the marriage had eight children. It was not until a few years after her marriage that she studied human medicine and received her doctorate summa cum laude in Berlin in 1937 .

She worked as a prison doctor in the women's prison on Lehrter Strasse, where she looked after the imprisoned women and provided them with additional medication. During the Battle of Berlin in the spring of 1945, she set up a hospital in the family residence at 31 Stallupöner Allee in Berlin-Westend . After the end of the war, she expanded it to include a neighboring building barrack owned by the Todt Organization . She later ran the house as a private clinic, which existed until 1965. There she mainly treated poor patients who could not have afforded treatment.

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personal data
SURNAME Westrick, Hilda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Odelga, baroness of (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH 1981