Marie Adamczyk

Marie Adamczyk (born April 20, 1879 in Skotschau , † January 19, 1973 in Vienna ) was an Austrian nurse.

Marie Adamczyk learned to be a nurse at the Rudolfinerhaus in Vienna. After completing her training, she was a Red Cross nurse to Lviv ( Ukraine offset) and built at the sanatorium of the Red Cross, a nursing school. During the First World War , wounded and sick German and Austrian officers were cared for there. Before the city was surrounded by Russian troops in 1914, the wounded could not be evacuated; the railway had already ceased operations. Adamczyk organized a tram transport with which she helped the transportable soldiers to escape. She hid the officers who had not been transferred at the risk of their own lives during the Russian occupation or pretended to be seriously ill in order to save them from captivity . She procured clothes or blankets for other officers at her own expense. After Lviv was liberated in June 1915, she was transferred back to the Rudolfinerhaus in Vienna on September 9, 1915. The International Committee of the Red Cross awarded Adamzcyk, who was referred to in contemporary reports as the Angel of Lemberg , for her commitment with the Florence Nightingale Medal . From 1930 until her retirement in 1936, she worked as matron of Lorenz Böhler at the Workers' Accident Hospital and died on January 19, 1973.

literature

• Veronika Kleibel: Adamczyk, Marie . In: Horst-Peter Wolff (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon zur care history. "Who was who in nursing history". Volume 2. Urban & Fischer, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-437-26670-5 , p. 2.