Empress Friedrich House

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Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus, 2009

The Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus is located at Robert-Koch-Platz 7 in Berlin-Mitte . It is owned by the Kaiserin Friedrich Foundation and is home to it and various medical societies.

history

House for medical training as the headquarters of the German Academy of the Arts , 1955

The building was erected between 1904 and 1906 according to plans by the court architect Ernst von Ihne on behalf of the Kaiserin Friedrich Foundation for advanced medical training .

The Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus owes its existence to the desire of the doctors at the end of the 19th century for a central location for extra-occupational training measures in order to be able to do justice to the rapid development of medicine at the time. The building was financed by the city council through donations of 1.5 million Reichsmarks. The first director was the urologist Robert Kutner - at the same time editor-in-chief of the journal for advanced medical training founded in 1904 .

On May 4, 1929, on the occasion of the general meeting of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy, a historical-scientific meeting took place in the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus on what was then Luisenplatz, which was so until it was renamed Robert-Koch-Platz on March 11, 1932 was called. The pharmaceutical history lectures were given by the chairman of the society, Ludwig Winkler , private lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, the pharmacists Hermann Gelder and Walter Rothe from Berlin, the lecturer in the history of chemistry and pharmacy at the Berlin university, Georg Lockemann , the pharmacist and lecturer at the University of Leningrad JG Oberhard and the pharmacist and lecturer at Vienna University, Otto Zekert.

The building survived the Second World War largely unscathed. After the end of the war, the Soviet military command used the house until 1949. In 1950, the East Berlin magistrate handed the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus over to the German Academy of Arts (from 1972 Academy of the Arts of the GDR ), which it was until it was incorporated into the Academy of Arts used. From 1950 to 1977 and again from 1987 to 1992 it was their headquarters. In 1992 the house was transferred back to the Kaiserin Friedrich Foundation.

Surname

The name of the house refers to the Empress Victoria , called Kaiserin Friedrich , the widow of Emperor Friedrich III who died in 1901 . She was a key supporter of the campaigns to promote further medical training, which led to the establishment of the house.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Meyer: The Kaiserin Friedrich House . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7-2, 2001, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 164–170 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  2. ↑ Jürgen Hammerstein: 100 years of the Kaiserin Friedrich Foundation for advanced medical training through the ages . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , 2004, 101 (14), p. 27
  3. ↑ Detailed program in: Pharmazeutische Zeitung , No. 29/1929 p. 487 f. Publication server of the TU Braunschweig

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '  N , 13 ° 23'  E