Ruth Elster

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Ruth Elster (* 1913 in Bernburg / Saale ; † July 21, 2002 in Eutin ) was a German nurse and nursing manager .

Career

Ruth Elster passed the Abitur in Bethel near Bielefeld. She completed her nursing training in Zeitz and passed the exam in Weissenfels in 1935 . The Zeitz nurses' school was founded by the surgeon Richard Poelchen (1857–1947) before the First World War . Ruth Elster went through several specialist departments within nursing in order to familiarize herself with the nursing matter as widely as possible. Assignments in the psychiatric university clinics in Tübingen and Kiel were also part of it. Elster then worked initially as a teacher in nursing schools and later as a nursing manager in various hospitals, for example in Dessau , Husum , Klagenfurt , in the St. Veith field hospital, in Krümmel near Hamburg and Schleswig . In 1948 she was elected chairwoman of the Württemberg state group within the Agnes Karll Association in Stuttgart. In 1957 she was elected President of the Agnes-Karll Federal Association and chairwoman of the German Sister Community. During her term of office, the introduction of a collective agreement for students of the nursing profession and the opening of the association to male nurses fall. In 1965 she was elected 2nd Vice President of the International Council of Nurses (ICN). In 1965 she managed to organize and hold the four-language ICN congress in Frankfurt am Main. 6000 nurses from 64 countries took part in this congress. From 1960 to 1980 she was a board member of the German Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband. When she retired in 1973, she gave up her offices.

Her main concern was the emancipation of the nursing profession, whereby she considered an increase in the proportion of men to be urgently necessary. At the beginning of the 1970s, around 92% of all retired nurses in the Agnes Karll Association were single and received only a small pension. Half of these nurses said they had no one to look after them when they were sick. Ruth Elster saw an urgent need for action here. Ruth Elster followed the tradition of Agnes Karll in her professional policy requests .

Honors

  • 1976: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany for her life's work
  • Honorary member of the German Professional Association for Nursing Professions

Fonts

  • Ruth Elster: Position of the sister in the current health system. In: Ärztliche Praxis, No. XIII / 5 of February 4, 1961, pp. 292–297 (Lecture given at the 2nd seminar on international health issues and WHO work of the German Society for the United Nations, on October 12, 1960 in Düsseldorf ). In: Birgit Panke-Kochinke: The history of nursing (1679-2000). A source book. Mabuse, Frankfurt am Main 2001, pp. 217-220, ISBN 3-933050-73-1
  • Ruth Elster: The Agnes Karll Association and its influence on the development of nursing in Germany. A contribution to the history of the nursing professions and a professional association. Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-933050-48-0 , 2nd edition 2013 .

literature

  • Eckart John (from Hermannstadt): The situation of retired nurses in the FRG. Investigation on the basis of a questionnaire among the retired sisters of the Agnes-Karll-Verband , dissertation Dr. med. (Institute for general and social hygiene of the Hygienic Institute of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), September 11, 1972. Retired AK Nurses
  • Christine R. Auer: History of the nursing professions as a subject. The curricular development in nursing education and training , dissertation at the Institute for the History of Medicine (today: History and Ethics) Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , supervisor Wolfgang U. Eckart , self-published 2008, pp. 147–152 Ruth Elster, Leipzig Women's University.
  • Hubert Kolling (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon for care history. Who was who in nursing history. Volume 4, Elsevier GmbH, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-437-26083-4 , pp. 84-87 (with a list of Ruth Elster's publications)
  • Christine R. Auer (Eds.): Antje Grauhan and Wolfgang Rapp (Dept. Paul Christian): The expansion of the bipersonal to a tripersonal situation presented us with new challenges. For Sabine Bartholomeyczik to the Federal Cross of Merit 2015. Correspondence Ruth Elster with the sister school of the University of Heidelberg , self-published, Heidelberg 2015, z. BS 101, ISBN 978-3-00-050734-2 .

Documents in archives

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Klimpel : Richard Poelchen . In: Hubert Kolling (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for Nursing History - Who Was Who in Nursing History , Volume nine, Hpsmedia GmbH Nidda, 2020, p. 151 f.
  2. ↑ Simone Moses: The academization of care in Germany . Study series of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Hans Huber Verlag 2015, p. 27.
  3. ^ German literary television : Dr. med. Eckart John

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personal data
SURNAME Magpie, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nurse
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernburg / Saale
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2002
Place of death Eutin