Luise von Oertzen

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Luise von Oertzen (born March 3, 1897 in Detmold , † November 16, 1965 in Wiesbaden ) was a German nurse and superior general of the sororities of the German Red Cross (DRK).

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Luise von Oertzen was the daughter of the Prussian administrative lawyer Karl Friedrich von Oertzen and his wife Constance, b. Baroness of Genarclens-Grancy. She was the youngest of six children. Luise von Oertzen completed her training as a nurse in the years 1918 to 1920 at the Red Cross Mother House Sophienhaus Weimar. Between 1932 and 1933, she qualified in the annual course for senior nurses at the Werner School of the German Red Cross of the DRK in Berlin-Lankwitz. In March 1933 she became superior of the DRK parent company Clementinenstift in Hanover and became a member of the NSDAP almost at the same time . In 1935 she was appointed superior general of the sororities of the German Red Cross. When the “Law on the German Red Cross” came into force on December 9, 1937, all independent Red Cross organizations were dissolved and merged to form the German Red Cross. Luise von Oertzen was appointed "General Hauptsturmführer". Despite her sympathy for the NSDAP, she prevented the Red Cross sisters from merging with the sisters of the National Socialist Welfare Service , also known as the "Brown Sisters". After the start of the war, she enforced the appointment of army superiors to look after the sisters in the theaters of war.

Shortly before the end of the war, Oertzen left Babelsberg and fled with some close colleagues after she had handed over the official business to Oberin Cläre Ports, the previous superior of the sororities of the DRK regional office III. In September 1945 the DRK was dissolved in the Soviet occupation zone . In 1952 Luise von Oertzen was elected Superior General by the Association of German Mother Houses of the Red Cross . In the controversy over the new Nursing Act of 1957, with which the people's representatives wanted to equate the nursing profession with the other women's professions, Luise von Oertzen became the protagonist of the advocate of the rights of mother houses. She feared the law would destroy the mother houses and, together with the representatives of the Roman Catholic and Protestant mother houses, mother Aquila and Auguste Mohrmann , vehemently advocated the “tradition of German nursing” and “legal protection for the hood” . Therefore, in the Nursing Act of 1957, only the professional title “nurse”, but not the practice of nursing, was placed under legal protection. This was a major setback for institutions that were not affiliated with the parent company, such as the newly founded sister school at Heidelberg University in 1953 .

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literature

  • Nursing. Lack of nurses. Legal protection for the hood. In: Der Spiegel. Issue 26, 1957, pp. 18-26. (spiegel.de)
  • M. v. Bechtolsheim: General Superior Luise von Oertzen. Association of Mother Houses of the Red Cross eV, 1966.
  • Hilde Steppe (Hrsg.): Nursing in National Socialism. 8th edition. Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-925499-35-0 , pp. 216-217.
  • Biography of Luise von Oertzen. In: Horst-Peter Wolff (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon zur care history. "Who was who in nursing history". Ullstein Mosby publishing house, Berlin / Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-86126-628-8 , p. 142.
  • Birgit Panke-Kochinke, Monika Schaidhammer-Placke (eds.): Front sisters and angels of peace. War nursing in the First and Second World Wars. Mabuse, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-933050-91-X , p. 157 + 163 Luise von Oertzen: Work report from the DRK sororities
  • Ludger Tewes: Red Cross Sisters Your assignment in the mobile medical service of the Wehrmacht 1939–1945. (= War in history. 93). Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78257-1 , pp. 27-52.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgitt Morgenbrod, Stephanie Merkenich: The German Red Cross under the Nazi dictatorship 1933 to 1945. Verlag Schoeningh, 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76529-1 , p. 417.
  2. ↑ Sigrid Schmidt-Meinecke: The call of the hour. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1963, p. 34.
  3. ↑ Anja K. Peters: Historical nursing research as a critical corrective. In: Christine R. Auer: Posthumously for Antje Grauhan . The Heidelberg School of Anthropological Medicine and Nursing. Lecture on the occasion of the Florence Nightingale Congress 2010 “International Perspectives in the History of Nursing Conference”. Heidelberg 2010, pp. 17-18.
  4. ↑ Christine R. Auer: A free-thinking nurse. Antje Grauhan MA is 80 years old. Self-published, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030494-1 , p. 79. on Luise von Oertzen, Auguste Mohrmann and mother Aquila (greeting Antje Grauhan 100th anniversary for Olga von Lersner ), funded by the Robert- Bosch Foundation .
  5. ^ DRK care home Luise von Oertzen.
  6. ^ German biography: von Oertzen

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SURNAME Oertzen, Luise von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nurse and superior general of the sororities of the German Red Cross
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1965
Place of death Wiesbaden