Adele Rautenstrauch

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Anna Maria Adele Rautenstrauch , b. Joest (born February 23, 1850 in Cologne , † December 30, 1903 in Neustrelitz ) was a German patroness and founder . She gave the city of Cologne the ethnological collection inherited from her brother Wilhelm Joest , which still forms the basis of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne today.

Life

Adele Joest was born on February 23, 1850 as the daughter of Maria Wilhelmina Eduarda Joest, b. Leiden and the sugar manufacturer Eduard Joest were born in Cologne. In 1872 she married the merchant Eugen Rautenstrauch (1842–1900), who continued his father's import business of animal skins. The Rautenstrauch couple collected ancient and ethnographic exhibits. Adele Rautenstrauch's younger brother Wilhelm went on numerous trips around the world and thereby built up an extensive ethnological collection. After his death in Ureparapara in 1898 , his sister inherited the brother's extraordinary collection, which she had brought to Cologne. Together with her husband Eugen - who had the power of disposal over his wife's inheritance according to the Civil Code - she donated her brother's collection, which comprised over 3,400 exhibits, to the city of Cologne on June 28, 1899, for the public and especially for the public To make students of the commercial college accessible.

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum on the Ubierring, around 1910

After Eugen Rautenstrauch died on May 18, 1900, on August 1, 1900, in memory of her husband, she donated the capital for the construction of a new ethnological museum in the amount of 250,000 Reichsmarks with the condition that the new museum be named Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum should wear. At the same time, she created the financial conditions for hiring a renowned museum director. She donated the salary for the first museum director, Willy Foy , for ten years . Shortly before her unexpected death in December 1903, Adele Rautenstrauch announced that the new museum building on Ubierring would be built at her own expense using the building fund. A few days later she died in Neustrelitz.

Tomb of the Rautenstrauch family in the Melaten cemetery

After her death in Mecklenburg , Adele Rautenstrauch was transferred to Cologne and buried in the Melaten cemetery on the so-called Millions Avenue (between HWG and Lit. P).

The couple had three children, Theodor Damian (1873–1907) builder of Birlinghoven Castle , Marie Emma Adele Wilhelmine, later Countess von Bernstorff (1876–1945) and Eugen Adolf Wilhelm von Rautenstrauch (1879–1956), partner in the Delbrück bank , vd Heydt & Co.

The children had the museum built at the family's expense. On November 12, 1906, the museum building initiated by Adele Rautenstrauch on the Ubierring was opened in the presence of her son Eugen and her son-in-law Georg Ernst von Bernstorff .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , pp. 438-439.
  2. ^ Eduard Prüssen (linocuts), Werner Schäfke and Günter Henne (texts): Cologne heads . 1st edition. University and City Library, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-931596-53-8 , pp. 48 .
  3. ^ Konrad Adenauer and Volker Gröbe: Streets and squares in Lindenthal . 1st edition. JP Bachem, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7616-1018-1 , p. 130 f .
  4. ^ Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 267.
  5. ↑ Irene Franken: Adele Rautenstrauch, b. Joest - founder . In: The historical city guide . Women in Cologne. JP Bachem, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7616-2029-8 , pp. 262 f .
  6. ↑ Josef Abt & Joh. Ralf Beines: Melaten - Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 210 .
  7. ↑ https://www.izb.fraunhofer.de/de/schloss-birlinghoven/baugeschichte.html
  8. ↑ https://www.ksta.de/koeln/prominenten-auf-dem-melaten--sote-23111580-seite4
  9. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/1966/35/schaltjahr
  10. ↑ Kölner Tageblatt: The opening ceremony. Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, November 13, 1909, accessed on February 2, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Rautenstrauch, Adele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rautenstrauch, Anna Maria Adele (full name); Joest, Adele (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German patroness and founder
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1903
Place of death Neustrelitz