Marija Vecrumba

Marija Vecrumba (7 March 1885 – 18 March 1919) was a Latvian physician. She trained in medicine at the University of Bern in Switzerland. She was a participant in the women's emancipation movement, and was appointed the head of the public health department of the Executive Committee of the Council of Workers' Deputies (Iskolat) in Jelgava district. She was shot on 18 March 1919, when German Landeswehr units occupied Jelgava.

Life Marija Vecrumba was born on 7 August 1885 in Riga into the family of a railwayman. Medical education for women in Latvia at that time was "almost impossible", but she was encouraged to pursue her education outside Russia by the activities of other participants in the women's emancipation movement, such as Dora Stučka. On 31 January 1919, she was appointed head of the public health department of the Jelgava County Council of Workers' Deputies (Iskolata).