Margarete Blank

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Margarete Blank House and Memorial in Panitzsch

Margarete Blank , called Margot (born February 21, 1901 in Kiev ; † February 8, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German doctor.

Life

Memorial stone in Panitzsch

The daughter of German-Baltic parents - an engineer and a dentist - moved to Germany in 1919 together with her father and siblings Herbert and Eleonore. The father went to Berlin after a short time, the siblings to Leipzig . There Margarete and Eleonore Blank met other Baltic Germans who were studying in Leipzig, such as the brothers Georg and Valentin Sacke and Siegfried Behrsing, who married Eleonore.

In 1921 Blank began studying medicine at the University of Leipzig . Initially stateless , she received German citizenship in 1924. After completing her studies in 1927, she worked at the university as a medical intern in the surgical clinic. From 1929 she worked as a doctor with his own country medical practice in Panitzsch work at Leipzig and attained 1932 at the University of Leipzig in medicine History at Henry E. Sigerist with a thesis entitled "A case history Herman Boerhaave and its place in the history of the clinic" doctorate .

During the Nazi era , she looked after the children of arrested anti-fascists. The Institute for Marxism-Leninism claimed in the GDR standard works it published that Blank had joined the resistance group around Alfred Frank in 1935 , but it was not active in any resistance group, but was very hostile to the Nazi regime.

When in 1944 she expressed doubts about the “ final victory ” to his wife while treating the children of a senior staff doctor at the front , this doctor denounced Dr. Werner Benne, his colleague on vacation at home. Thereupon the Gestapo arrested Blank on July 14, 1944 as a "Bolshevik spy and agent". The 6th Senate of the People's Court , who had traveled from Berlin, sentenced her to death on December 15, 1944 in the jury room of the Dresden Regional Court for "severely corrosive statements". Margarete Blank died on February 8, 1945 under the guillotine in the courtyard of the regional court building .

Appreciation

In Panitzsch:

  • Margarete Blank House
  • Memorial stone in the center
  • Dr.-Margarete-Blank-Strasse
  • Dr. Margarete Blank Primary School

In Engelsdorf :

  • Dr.-Margarete-Blank-Strasse

In Thekla :

  • Senior Center Dr. Margarete Blank

In Prenzlau :

  • Senior Center Dr. Margarete Blank

In Torgau :

  • medical college "Dr. Margarete Blank "

The Leipzig Faculty of Medicine has also awarded a publication prize in honor of Margarete Blank.

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933 to 1945. Biographies and letters. Vol. 1, edited by the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED, Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 124–126
  • Gertrud Bobek : Dr. Margarete Blank. A picture of life - presented according to reports from her fellow campaigners, friends and patients. SED district leadership Leipzig-Land, Leipzig 1987
  • Charlotte Zeitschel: The little Miss Doctor. In: I have to be able to give myself completely. Women in Leipzig. Edited by Friederun Bodeit, Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig 1990, pp. 204-216, ISBN 3-7304-0256-0
  • Dr. Margarete Blank (1901-1945). Judicial murder and politics of remembrance. Edited and introduced by Birgit Sack (Lebenszeugnisse - Leidenswege, H. 11), Saxon Memorials Foundation in memory of the victims of political tyranny, Dresden 2000, ISBN 3-934382-00-2
  • Birgit Sack: Dr. Margarete Blank. 1901 to 1945. Ärzteblatt Sachsen, issue 4/2005, p. 176 f.
  • Andrea Lorz: A life for the truth. Margarete Blank. Edited by the association “Dr. Margarete Blank “e. V., Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-938543-57-3

Web links

Commons : Margarete Blank  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegfried Behrsing (born November 9, 1903; † April 5, 1994) from Estonia became a leading sinologist in the GDR. Siegfried Behrsing , German Digital Library .
  2. ↑ Directory of application and study opportunities for training in a medical technical school occupation Archive of the University of Leipzig. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Blank, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blank, Margot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1945
Place of death Dresden