Irmel Weyer

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Irmel Weyer (born February 20, 1927 in Wattenscheid ; under the name Irmgard Weyer ) is a German doctor and development worker.

Life

Irmel Weyer grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In 1946 she passed the Abitur at the Luisenschule there . According to her own account, during her youth she was shaped by the parish youth who met secretly during the Nazi era. She also mentions the air raids in her hometown during World War II, during which she had to help as a fire alarm and extinguish the fire. After graduating from high school, she studied medicine in Regensburg and Passau .

From 1961 she worked in the Litembo Hospital , which was founded in 1914 by the Mission Benedictine Father Ludger as a mission station and health service. Under her leadership, the hospital was expanded considerably. An operating room and an X-ray department were built just two years after her arrival . In 1967 a main nursing station was established. From 1982 the required electricity was generated in a hydropower plant and in 1983 a new administration building was moved into. Before she retired in 1996, a children's ward was opened in 1995. The hospital, in which at the beginning there were 78 beds in ten windowless huts and in which operations were carried out with torchlight without running water or electricity, became a modern government hospital with 360 beds and 200,000 patients annually under her management.

She was supported by the "Association of Patrons of the Jungle Doctor Dr. Irmel Weyer ”which later changed its name to the“ Dr. Irmel Weyer Foundation ”, which Erich Endlein founded in 1967.

According to her own statements, she is particularly pleased that locals run the house today.

Today (as of 2017) she lives in Ostercappeln- Schwagstorf and takes care of her six-year-old sister there.

Awards

On June 18, 2009, the then Prime Minister presented her with the Great Cross of Merit for her life's work.

She was honored with the highest Tanzanian order by the Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere .

She was awarded the Order of Gregory by the Pope .

Works

  • The frequency of the clash of lupous skin diseases with other tuberculous manifestations. (Dissertation, Medical Faculty University of Düsseldorf from March 10, 1955) Düsseldorf 1955.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth , accessed September 3, 2013
  2. ↑ Osnabrücker Zeitung from June 25, 2009 , accessed on September 3, 2013
  3. ^ Report on www.derwesten.de from January 8, 2010 , accessed on September 3, 2013
  4. ↑ German website of the hospital (accessed on October 24, 2013) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.litembo.org
  5. ↑ Report on the website of Münsterschwarzach Abbey (accessed on October 24, 2013) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abtei-muensterschwarzach.de
  6. ↑ a b c d Rainer Westendorf: 90th birthday of Irmel Weyer - Active for children in Tanzania from Schwagstorf , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from February 20, 2017 (accessed on September 3, 2018)
  7. ↑ Mirco Stodollick: Erich Endlein has been collecting half his life for the Urwaldklinik , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 22, 2009; accessed on September 3, 2018
  8. ^ Website of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on September 3, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Weyer, Irmel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weyer, Irmgard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and development worker
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Wattenscheid