Ursula Sellschopp

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Ursula Sellschopp

Ursula Charlotte Annemarie Sellschopp (born August 12, 1915 in Bauhof ( Güstrow ); died January 26, 1998 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German gynecologist .

Life

Ursula Sellschopp's father, Karl Ludwig Emil Sellschopp (1870–1921), was the tenant of the building yard belonging to the city of Güstrow . He died aged only 45 when she was 5 years old. Her mother Klara Sellschopp (née Greppi, * 1891) raised her children Karl Wilhelm Paul Walter Sellschopp (1912–1945), Ursula and Günther Gerd Karl Friedrich Sellschopp (1917–1944) on her own. Ursula had to lend a hand early on. When a Jewish girl delivers by far the best work in an essay competition, but Ursula received the award because of her “better family tree”, she passed the award on to the actual winner. Ursula Sellschopp studied in Rostock, Hamburg and Munich. She received her specialist training from Walter Stoeckel at the Charité in Berlin. In 1940 Ursula Sellschopp obtained her doctorate with her dissertation The Alimentary Essigester Curve in Untreated, Alkalized and Acidified Blood, its influence by hormones (insulin, thyroxine, adrenaline, hypophysine, praeloban), by hormones and glucose and by stimulants (nicotine, caffeine) . med. After completing her studies in 1940, in the middle of the Second World War , she was given service as a gynecologist at the Charité. She is said to have stayed with the patients even during bombing raids.

After the end of the war she saw how many women were brought to Berlin by horse and cart from Frankfurt (Oder) for gynecological care. After the end of the war, large streams of refugees moved through Frankfurt's border location through the city, the danger of epidemics was omnipresent. Then Ursula Sellschopp decided in spring 1946 to go to Frankfurt (Oder) with a nurse. There she set up a gynecological station and a department for venereal diseases in the Lutherstift Evangelical Hospital and worked intensively in advising mothers. She received support from the nurses and nurses who had been trained in the foundation's own nursing school. She paid for the first sick beds out of her own pocket. She bought shoes for nurses with her own money. In addition to her qualification as a gynecologist, she acquired extensive pediatric knowledge with the help of Frankfurt's only pediatrician Hildegard Duffing (1914–1977) . Newborns and infants could also be cared for in the guard station she had set up. Through her additional work in the polyclinic as a so-called additional position, she was also able to carry out hospital admissions. She lived in the Lutherstift parsonage until 1979 and came to work every morning at 6 o'clock; also on Sundays and public holidays. Many patients remember Ursula Sellschopp as a woman with a strict hairstyle and a high-necked smock, who displayed a somewhat rough and very direct tone. She was recognized as an excellent surgeon and well-trained obstetrician who had asserted herself as a doctor in a male domain.

After the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR , she opened her own practice in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1990 at Gubener Straße 3 at the age of 75. In the spring of 1997 she retired. In October 1997 Ursula Sellschopp was made an honorary citizen of the city of Frankfurt (Oder). She had helped over 20,000 births. On January 23, 1998, Ursula Sellschopp was admitted to Lutherstift, very exhausted. On January 26, 1998, she died of heart failure in the room where she had worked for over 30 years.

In 2012, on the initiative of the women's representative of the city of Frankfurt (Oder) Sabine Stuchlick, a previously unnamed street in Frankfurt (Oder) -West was named after Ursula Sellschopp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b family line Sellschopp. In: sellschopp.info. Meno Sellschopp, Jürgen Sellschopp, Friedhart Sellschopp, 2015, accessed on March 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Ursula Sellschopp dead . In: Berliner Kurier . M. DuMont Schauberg, Berlin January 28, 1998 ( berliner-kurier.de [accessed March 28, 2017]).
  3. ↑ a b c Jörg Kotterba: 20,000 children she brought to the - MOZ.de . In: Märkische Oderzeitung . Märkisches Medienhaus, Frankfurt (Oder) August 12, 2015 ( moz.de [accessed on March 28, 2017]).
  4. ↑ a b c Wenda Helmut. Sahra Damus: Ursula Sellschopp. In: Student project Frauenorte in Frankfurt (Oder). 2015, accessed March 28, 2017 .
  5. ^ A b Henry-Martin Klemt: It was only when she was 82 that she took off her white coat. The doctor Dr. Ursula Sellschopp became an honorary citizen of Frankfurt (Oder) . In: New Germany . Neues Deutschland Druckerei und Verlag, Berlin October 1, 1997 ( neue-deutschland.de [accessed on March 28, 2017]).
  6. ^ Barbara Meißner: The special situation of denominational children's clinics in the Soviet occupation zone / GDR (1945-1989). Dissertation to obtain the academic degree of Doctor of Medicine (Dr. med.) . Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 14 ( Beluga University Hamburg ).
  7. ↑ Frauke Adesiyan: A task for 365 days . In: Märkische Oderzeitung . Märkisches Medienhaus, Frankfurt (Oder) March 7, 2016 ( moz.de [accessed March 28, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Sellschopp, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sellschopp, Ursula Charlotte Annemarie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Building yard ( Güstrow )
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1998
Place of death Frankfurt (Oder)