Karin Huppertz

Karin Huppertz (born May 24, 1894 in Pirmasens , † May 19, 1978 in Munich ) was a German nurse . She was a member of the NS Sisterhood , managing director of the specialist committee for nursing in the working group of independent welfare and editor-in-chief of the specialist journal published by the student body and the yearbook of nursing during the Nazi era .

Youth and career until 1930

Karin Maria Helena Karolina Huppertz was born on May 24, 1894 in Pirmasens as the daughter of the building contractor and architect Wilhelm Huppertz and his wife Paula. According to her own statements, Huppertz was trained as an interpreter and nurse. During the First World War she was used as a war nurse and then worked again in Pirmasens. She moved to Berlin at an unknown time .

Activities during the time of National Socialism

From the umbrella organization of the Reichsfachschaft deutscher Sisters and Nurses , to which the Catholic Sister Community of Germany , the Diakoniegemeinschaft , the Red Cross Sister Community , the Professional Association of Free Sisters and the Sister Community of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NS Sisterhood) belonged, the Expert Committee for Sisterhood in the Working Group of the Free was created in 1936 Welfare . The committee should deal with all general nursing questions. Erich Hilgenfeldt was entrusted with the management of the committee , assisted by the Reichsfrauenführer Gertrud Scholtz-Klink . The management was transferred to the Huppertz, organized in the NS sisterhood. Through this position, Huppert had a decisive influence on the development of the nursing profession, its ethical positioning during the National Socialist regime and vocational training. She drove forward the amendment of the Nursing Act and in 1940, in collaboration with Hans Harmsen, drafted the Nursing Service Book , which served to standardize the level of nursing schools.

As managing director of the committee, Huppertz worked on the specialist magazine Die Deutsche Sister . The magazine was created after the compulsory discontinuation of all other journals for nursing until the end of 1933 as the official magazine of the Reichsfachschaft Deutscher Sisters , in 1936 it was renamed. The Reich Health Leader Leonardo Conti and Scholtz-Klink put Huppertz in charge of the magazine. In addition, Huppertz was appointed editor of the yearbook for nursing from 1938 to 1942 and from 1940 also for the yearbook for infant and child nurses . She was therefore responsible for the editorial responsibility for all professional-political publications that appeared during the Nazi era. In 1940 she was co-author of the book Guide to Vocational Education in Nursing Schools .

Life after 1945

On February 3, 1948, Huppertz was sentenced to a fine for "not registering" her NSDAP membership. She moved to Bretten in September 1949 , before moving to Munich in 1950 and then to Coburg in October 1951 . In 1953 she returned to Munich, where she worked at the Hirsch Clinic and was registered as unemployed from 1954 or early 1955. In the spring of 1955, she married Oskar Schröder , who was released from prison in 1954 , the former head of the medical services of the German Air Force , who had been convicted of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg doctors' trial . Huppertz died on May 19, 1978 in Munich.

literature

• Hubert Kolling: Huppertz, Karin In: Horst-Peter Wolff (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon for care history. "Who was who in nursing history". Urban & Fischer, Munich 2001, Volume 2, ISBN 3-437-26670-5 , pp. 106-108.
• Hilde Steppe : Nursing in National Socialism. Mabuse-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-925-49935-0 .
• Marianne Schmidbaur: From the "Lazarus Cross" to "Current Care": Discourses of Professionalization in German Nursing, 1903–2000. Ulrike Helmer, 2002, ISBN 3-897-41100-8 , pp. 135-140.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hilde Steppe: Nursing in National Socialism. Mabuse-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-925-49935-0 , pp. 11-12.
2. ↑ Liselotte Katscher: Nursing and Second World War: the way of the sisterhood of the Evangelical Diakonievereins, autumn 1939-late 1944. Verlagwerk der Diakonie, 1992, ISBN 3-923-11077-4 , pp. 77-79.