Marie Elise Kayser

Marie Elise Kayser

Marie Elise Kayser (born November 28, 1885 in Görlitz ; † September 6, 1950 in Erfurt ) was a German pediatrician and founder of the human milk collection centers in Germany .

Live and act

Marie Elise Kayser was born in 1885 as the seventh of eight children of the secret building officer Ernst Schubert. She spent her childhood in Sorau and Berlin . In 1906 she passed her high school diploma . She then studied medicine in Berlin and Jena , and meanwhile spent a semester in Rome . She passed her state examination in 1911, and in the same year she was the first woman to receive her doctorate at the Medical Faculty of the Thuringian State University in Jena . From 1911 to 1912 she was a medical intern in Magdeburg . She then completed a pediatric training in Heidelberg with Ernst Moro , before returning to Magdeburg. Here she initially worked in infant care, later ten years in her own pediatric practice.

In 1914 she married the gynecologist Konrad Kayser, and they both had three children together. An abundant excess of milk during her own breastfeeding period gave Marie Elise Kayser the idea of ​​collecting and preserving breast milk . On May 19, 1919, she set up the first breast milk collection point in Germany in the infant department under Hans Vogt, a student of Adalbert Czerny , in the Altstadt hospital in Magdeburg . In 1923 this was closed due to the economic situation, but on May 1, 1936 it was re-established at the Magdeburg State Women's Clinic .

Memorial plaque in the building of the former state women's clinic in Magdeburg

In 1925 Marie Elise Kayser went to Erfurt, where her husband took over the management of the regional women's clinic there. Here she set up another human milk collection point in 1927, which she took over as head. Due to its success, further human milk collection points were set up based on their model in the 1930s and 1940s in almost all major German cities, but also in Finland, the USA, Argentina and the Soviet Union. In 1939, Kayser published the guidelines for the establishment and operation of human milk collection points , which were translated into several other languages. The regulation on human milk collection points of 1941 created the legal requirements that still apply today.

Marie Elise Kayser died in Erfurt in 1950 at the age of 64.

Fonts (selection)

• Human Milk Collection Centers: A Guide to Establishing and Operating Them. Fischer Verlag, Jena, 1940
• Manufacture, application and success with breast milk dry powder. Arch Gynecol Obstet 161 (1936), 382-388, doi: 10.1007 / BF01725949

Honors

In 1951 the human milk collection point in Erfurt was renamed Marie-Elise-Kayser-Haus and a memorial plaque was added. A plaque commemorates the pediatrician on her birthplace in Görlitz. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of her death, a memorial plaque was also placed in the Magdeburg State Women's Clinic in 2000. There is a "Marie-Elise-Kayser-Straße" in Zwickau and Erfurt . Also in Erfurt, the State Vocational School 6 for Health and Social Affairs bears the name " Marie-Elise-Kayser School ".

literature

• Marie Elise Kayser in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
• Edith Lölhöffel von Löwensprung : About the establishment of breast milk collection points based on the Erfurt model (Dr. Marie-Elise Kayser) and their importance for paediatrics. In: Ärztin 13 (1937), 100-108
• Wolfgang Danner: Your cradle was in Görlitz - 100th birthday of Dr. med. Marie-Elise Kayser, the founder of the human milk collection points. In: Sächsische Zeitung, November 27, 1985
• Wolfgang Danner: Marie-Elise Kayser. In: Görlitzer Magazin - Contributions to the history, art and cultural history of the city of Görlitz and its surroundings, 1987, 39–41
• Wilhelm Thal, Norbert Bannert : One hundred years of clinical paediatrics in Magdeburg (1906-2006) - The Magdeburg children's clinics and their medical directors. In: Ärzteblatt Sachsen-Anhalt 17 (2006), 55-8 OCLC 209330978
• Clinic of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg: First human milk collection point in Germany. In: Uni-Protocols of September 18, 2000 (last accessed on May 23, 2009)
• Gerhard Lindemann , Hans-Dieter Herre: The women's milk collection point of the state women's clinic Magdeburg. In: German Health Service 17 (1962), 778
• Friedrich Eckardt: The pioneering act of the pediatrician Marie-Elise Kayser. In: Pediatrician 17 (1986), 85
• Wilhelm Thal: On the development of paediatrics in Magdeburg. In: Magdeburger Blätter 1991, 77–90
• Wilhelm Thal: The groundbreaking act of a pediatrician in Magdeburg - Dr. Marie-Elise Kayser (1885–1950) on the 50th anniversary of her death . In: Ärzteblatt Sachsen-Anhalt 11 (2000) 45–47
• Werner Usbeck (Ed.): Dr. med. Marie Elise Kayser (1885–1950) - a life for the children. In: Contributions to the history of the University of Erfurt (1392–1816) 1956–1981, twenty-five years JA Barth, 1982
• Marie Deetjen: Marie Elise Kayser (obituary). In: Deutsche Midammenzeitung (1952), 28
• Volker Klimpel: "Give of the abundance!" Marie-Elise Kayser and the human milk collection points . In: Ärzteblatt Thüringen 21 (2010), pp. 508–509
• Rita Seifert: Marie-Elise Kayser (1885-1950): first doctorate from the University of Jena and founder of the breast milk collection points in Germany . In: Weimar-Jena, die große Stadt 2 (2012), pp. 111–120.
• Sabine Jirschitzka-Löffler: For Marie-Elise Kayser's 130th birthday. The files of the human milk collection point in the Erfurt city archive. In: City and History. Journal for Erfurt , No. 60, 2/2015, pp. 21–22.
• Eva Labouvie: Kayser, Maria Elisa (Marie-Elise), b. Schubert, Dr. med. In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , p. 240-244.

Web links

Commons : Marie Elise Kayser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Marie Elise Kayser in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Klimpel : Marie-Elise Kayser , in: Hubert Kolling (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon for Nursing History “Who was who in nursing history” , Vol. 7 hps media Nidda 2015, pp. 142 + 143.
2. ↑ Information from the Marie-Elise-Kayser-Schule Erfurt