Wilhelmine Lasser

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Wilhelmine Lasser (born May 19, 1889 in Munich as Wilhelmine "Vilma" Ritscher ; † September 22, 1963 in Munich) was a German internist and pediatrician .

Life

The daughter of the businessman Julius Ritscher and Regina Ritscher (née Fürst Ola) graduated from the Königliche Wittelsbachergymnasium in Munich in 1908 and studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from the winter semester 1908/09 to the winter semester 1913/14 .

She was licensed as a doctor in 1914 and worked as an assistant doctor at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin until 1918. From 1921 to 1937 she was a resident specialist for internal diseases and a pediatrician in Munich and worked as a doctor at the Munich-Schwabing hospital and for two years in the infant hospital on Lachnerstrasse. After the death of her husband, the painter Hans Lasser , she moved her practice to his former studio in Hilthenbergstrasse (also Hiltenspergerstrasse) in 1932.

Under the National Socialists it had to endure serious changes. Declared a Jew according to the law for the restoration of the civil service of April 7, 1933, followed in 1934 with the withdrawal of the insurance license. Your employment at the infant advice center in Munich on Steinstrasse was terminated. It is listed in the "Directory of non-Aryan and subversive doctors, dentists and dentists" of the German employees' health insurance fund from October 1, 1934. Although she was still listed in the Reich Medical Calendar in 1937 as "Sports Doctor in Munich", she left Munich in 1935 to work as a mission doctor in Canton (China) . In 1938 she became a mission doctor at the English Mission Society until the Chinese government finally put an end to her activities in 1950. She returned to Munich on October 1, 1950, and tried again there for the health insurance certificate, which she received on June 1, 1951. She then worked as a doctor in the St. Martin retirement home and practiced for another 12 years.

Fonts

  • The cogenital kidney dystopia Munich, Diss. Med. from 1914
  • Congenital word blindness (bradylexia) in non-feeble-minded children in Zeitschrift für Kinderheilkunde Vol. 22 (1919) o. P.

literature

  • Reichsmedizinalkalender 1926 / 27–1929, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1937
  • Annual directory of the publications published at the German universities in 1914, Munich, p. 443
  • Seidler: Pediatricians 1933–1945 ..., Bonn 2000, p. 298
  • Jäckle, Renate: Fate of Jewish and "anti-state" doctors after 1933 in Munich. Munich, 1988, p. 87
  • Munich handbook of the doctor, clinician and pharmacist. Berlin, 1953, p. 140
  • Ebert, Monika: Between recognition and ostracism. Doctors at the Ludwig Maximilians University in the first half of the 20th century. Neustadt an der Aisch 2003, pp. 172–173

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Wilhelmine (Vilma) Lasser, born. Ritscher in documentation: Doctors in the Empire. Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, accessed on February 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ Person and student directories , website of the university library of the LMU Munich, accessed on February 4, 2017.
  3. ^ Georg Britting Foundation: Volume 18 "Italian Impressions" , [1] (p. 17).
personal data
SURNAME Lasser, Wilhelmine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritscher, Wilhelmine (maiden name); Ritscher, Vilma (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1963
Place of death Munich