Maria Daelen-Strecker

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Maria Felicitas Daelen-Strecker (born February 22, 1903 in Düsseldorf ; † October 5, 1993 ) was a German doctor and government official.

Life

Maria Daelen-Strecker was the daughter of Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb's first marriage with the industrialist Felix Daelen. She attended school in Wiesbaden and graduated from high school there in 1922 . She then studied medicine in Hamburg and Munich . She passed her state examination in Berlin in 1929 and received her doctorate there in 1932 .

She was initially an assistant doctor at the Westend hospital and worked at the Charité from 1933 . In 1939 she opened her own practice for internal diseases in Berlin-Schöneberg .

During the National Socialist era , she worked as a district doctor from 1943 to 1945. This enabled her to help various artists to evade military service. In 1945 she fled the Gestapo to Austria .

From 1946 she was a consultant in the Hessian State Ministry and was instrumental in introducing the BCG vaccination in Hesse . She later worked in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Health.

Daelen-Strecker represented Germany as a delegate in the Council of Europe and in the World Health Organization .

Daelen-Strecker was the half-sister of Elisabeth Albert and before she was in a relationship with the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler . In 1968 she married Ludwig Strecker , the senior director of B. Schott's Sons .

literature

  • Maren Richter: "But I was not discouraged". Maria Daelen - doctor and health politician in the 20th century , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 9783835334779 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelia Baddack: Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb (1879–1962) in the Weimar Republic: company heir , member of the Reichstag, founder of a society , political salonnière and publicist . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8470-0614-5 ( google.de [accessed June 19, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Doctors in the Empire. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ "But I was not discouraged". Maria Daelen - doctor and health politician in the 20th century. In: Research group on the history of the interior ministries in Bonn and East Berlin. Accessed December 29, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Maren Richter: Maria Daelen: "So beautiful, so witty" . In: The time . December 29, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 29, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Daelen-Strecker, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daelen-Strecker, Maria Felicitas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and government official
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1993