Erna von Abendroth (4 February 1887 – 26 February 1959) was a pioneering German nurse and trainer/teacher. After the First World War she became the first German nurse to receive a PhD degree in return for a dissertation with a nursing theme. After the Second World War, starting in May 1946 she took charge of the reconstruction of the "Werner" Red Cross Nursing Academy at Göttingen.[1][2]
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- ^ Ruth Venske (19 August 2009). "Abendroth Erna von ... Lehrerin, Krankenschwester, Oberin". Martina Schattkowsky (compiler-editor). Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde e.V., Dresden. Retrieved 4 August 2017.