Veronica Carstens

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The Carstens couple (1949)
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Veronica Carstens b. Veronica Prior (born June 18, 1923 in Bielefeld , Westphalia province ; † January 25, 2012 in Bonn , North Rhine-Westphalia ) was a German doctor and the wife of the former Federal President Karl Carstens .

Life

Veronica Carstens was born as the youngest of four children of a Westphalian graduate engineer, graduated from high school in Bielefeld and then in Westrup in 1941 the obligatory Reich Labor Service . In 1942 she began studying medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , completed her physics course and worked from 1944 to 1945 as a hospital nurse for the German Red Cross . In 1944 she married Karl Carstens , whom she had met in 1943 in Berlin-Tegel . She was temporarily a housewife. In 1956 she continued her medical studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1960 she completed her studies with a state examination and doctorate . This was followed by specialist training in internal medicine in Bonn - Beuel .

Veronica Carstens receives women from foreign ambassadors

In the early 1960s she was a co-founder of the women's and family service in the Foreign Office . From 1960 to 1968 she worked as an assistant doctor, in 1968 she founded an internal medicine practice in Meckenheim , mainly focusing on homeopathy and alternative medicine . In 1972 Veronica Carstens was elected to the presbytery of the evangelical parish of Meckenheim .

In her role as the wife of the Federal President, from 1979 she became the patron of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society and UNICEF Germany , the mother's convalescence organization and chairwoman of the German old-age welfare organization . In 1982 the Carstens couple founded the Karl and Veronica Carstens Foundation , in 1983 the support group for empirical medicine, nature and medicine . Veronica Carstens was widowed since 1992. In 1995 she received the Hermann Ehlers Foundation Prize . After she withdrew from the public eye in 2009, she lived in a Bonn sanatorium. She is buried next to her husband in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen (grave number U 612) ( → Lage ).

Works

  • Naturopathy - Possibilities and Limits . Bonn 1980.

literature

  • Birgit Hibbeler: Veronica Carstens. Commitment without vanity . Deutsches Ärzteblatt 109 (2012), p. 235.
  • Friedrich Ludwig Müller: Veronica Carstens . [Obituary]. In: Monuments. Magazine for monument culture in Germany. 22 year, issue 2/2012, p. 58.
  • Ursula Salentin: Ways to Villa Hammerschmidt - Elly Heuss-Knapp, Wilhelmine Lübke, Hilda Heinemann, Mildred Scheel, Veronica Carstens, Marianne von Weizsäcker . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1989, ISBN 3-451-08688-3 .
  • Christian Zöllner: Presentation of the Hermann Ehlers Prize to Veronica Carstens . Series of publications by the Hermann Ehlers Academy in Kiel. Kiel 1995.
  • Heike Specht: “Your side of the story. Germany and its First Ladies from 1949 until today ”, Piper-Verlag, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-492-05819-3

Web links

Commons : Veronica Carstens  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Veronica Carstens has died (rp online, January 25, 2012, viewed January 25, 2012)
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Thyroid carcinoma in childhood .
  3. ↑ bild.de December 12, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Carstens, Veronica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prior, Veronica (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and the wife of the former Federal President Karl Carstens
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld , Province of Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2012
Place of death Bonn , North Rhine-Westphalia