Lilli Friesicke
Lilli Friesicke , née Culp (born October 8, 1888 in Elberfeld , Rhine Province , † November 10, 1938 in Brandenburg an der Havel ), was a German doctor and gynecologist .
Life
Lilli Friesicke was born as the daughter of the Dutch businessman Sieghart Culp. She first attended the girls' school, later a private high school course in Elberfeld. At Easter 1909 she passed her Abitur at the Real-Gymnasium Remscheid . She studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn and Jena , which was still relatively rare for women at that time . In the summer of 1914, she passed the state examination and, after obtaining an emergency license, was employed as an assistant doctor at the Medical Polyclinic in Jena. In 1915 she was due to their submitted dissertation on the topic "The importance of fetal hydrocephalus as a birth obstacle" to the doctor of medicine doctorate .
Between 1917 and 1919 she married Georg Friesicke, a radiologist and internist , with whom she lived at Katharinenkirchplatz 1 in Brandenburg (Havel) from 1919/20 at the latest. Both doctors had their own practice in this house. She was alone after her husband's death in 1928. On January 30, 1932, Lilli Friesicke acquired the property at Katharinenkirchplatz 8 from the important Brandenburg architect Max Leue for 15,000 RM .
After the National Socialists came to power , Friesicke was withdrawn from health insurance as a Jew in 1933 and from then on she was only able to treat Jewish patients against private liquidation. After the November pogroms in 1938 , Lilli Friesicke was also arrested. In police custody of the New Town City Hall, she committed to official statistical data on 10 November 1938. suicide , and the exact circumstances are not clear, as it was common practice by the Nazis to conceal such killings in custody.
After her death, her two underage children, the 13-year-old Heinz-Herbert (called Heini) and the younger daughter Marlene, were placed under the tutelage of the local National Socialist city councilor and master painter Martin Scheyba, who named his ward before he came of age from Heinz-Herbert On January 5, 1943, Friesicke sold the property for 2000 RM to the NSDAP district leader of Brandenburg (Havel) and bank director Ferdinand Heppner.
Heinz-Herbert Friesicke, who in the meantime had learned the trade of a technical draftsman and had started studying engineering, died on October 9, 1945 of typhus . It is known about the fate of the daughter Marlene, who fled to her uncle in Holland during the war, that she survived the period of National Socialism, married and had three children who currently live in Holland.
Heppner was expropriated as a war criminal by order 124 of the SMAD of October 30, 1945 on November 30, 1948 and the property was added to public ownership .
Honors
In the course of street renaming in 1993, a street in the north of Brandenburg was named after Lilli Friesicke.
In 2015, her name was brought into play for the laying of a stumbling block in Brandenburg an der Havel . Due to the resistance of the local Jewish community , which rejects Stolpersteine on principle, the initiators withdrew from the project.
swell
- AKTE Rep. 23 ESA 325 of the Brandenburg State Main Archives
- Brandenburg City Archives on the Havel
- Lilli Friesicke, b. Culp , Database Doctors in the Empire, Institute for the History of Medicine, Charité, Berlin 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Heiko Hesse: The mysterious death of Lilli Friesicke. In: Märkische Allgemeine . November 5, 2018, accessed April 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Jürgen Lauterbach: Museum and town hall stumble over stones . In: Märkische Allgemeine . February 25, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friesicke, Lilli |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Culp, Lilli (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gynecologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1938 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg on the Havel |