Jutta Koberg

Jutta Koberg (* 1928 in Tetschen , Czechoslovakia ) is a German midwife . She was the first manager of the Association of German Midwives .

Life

Jutta Koberg grew up with two sisters in Tetschen and was encouraged above all athletically and musically. In Aussig she attended elementary school and then the Lyceum. In 1944 she finished her school education with secondary school leaving certificate. She then attended the technical college for women's professions until April 1944. During the war she gained her first experience in the medical field. Her training was interrupted at the end of the Second World War, as she was housed in an internment camp from 1945 to 1946 . In 1946, as a Sudeten German, she was expelled together with her mother and sister (her father had died in 1943) and relocated to Hesse . Since a language course is not possible for financial reasons, she began training as a nurse at the University Clinic in Frankfurt and became a member of the Agnes-Karl Sisters' Association. After graduating, she first worked as a nurse and then completed midwifery training at the University Women's Clinic in Heidelberg from 1960 to 1961 under the teaching midwife Maria Hipp , who later became chairwoman of the Association of German Institutional Midwives (VDA), the predecessor of the Association of German Midwives (BDH). As a midwife, she worked in several hospitals and in 1965 as a teaching nurse. Finally, in 1972, she moved to the state women's clinic in Karlsruhe as a nursing manager and head of the midwifery school . Alongside her job, she completed training as a teacher via the Central Office for Public Health . During this time, through contact with Maria Hipp, she began active association work.

After the transfer of the VDH to the BDH in 1979 and the resulting changes in the association's financial possibilities, she was involved in the opening of the office of the Association of German Midwives in Karlsruhe on September 1, 1982, of which she became the managing director. She was partly responsible for the fact that there has been an all-German midwifery association since January 1st, 1991.

Award

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (June 9, 1992)

source

• S. Ehle: Success has always been an incentive , Midwifery Forum, May 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Office of the Federal President