Empress Friedrich Foundation / Kaiserin-Friedrich-Stiftung (KFS)

The Empress Friedrich Foundation (KFS) for medical training is named after the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland (1840-1901). Victoria took the name Empress Friedrich after the death of her husband, the Kaiser Friedrich III, the German 99-day Emperor, and devoted herself to medical training.

The Kaiserin-Friedrich-Foundation was founded in Berlin in 1903 on the initiative of Ernst von Bergmann, Robert Kutner and Friedrich Althoff.

As a non-profit organization, it dedicated itself to the maintenance and further development of medical training until the end of the Second World War. After 1945, the foundation's activities were suspended until 1972, when it was reactivated in Berlin (West) on the initiative of Wilhelm Heim. After reunification, the foundation was restored to its old rights and was able to return to its headquarters in the government district near the Charité in autumn 1992 - the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus - and turn again to its foundation purpose.