Adelheid von Bennigsen

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Adelheid Julie Luise Wilhelmine von Bennigsen (born September 23, 1861 in Lüneburg ; † December 16, 1938 in Hanover ) was one of the two founders of the Christian-Social Women's Seminar , which now belongs to the University of Hanover after the university reform . Adelheid von Benningsen was one of the pioneers in social work who oriented her to the example of Caritas .

Live and act

Adelheid von Bennigsen came from the old noble family von Bennigsen , whose seat can be found near Springe . Her father was the national liberal politician Rudolf von Bennigsen , who was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the later German Reichstag. Adelheid von Bennigsen had eight siblings, including the governor of German New Guinea Rudolf von Bennigsen and the district administrator Adolf von Bennigsen .

Adelheid von Bennigsen (1927) in Stralsund

Adelheid von Bennigsen became known through her involvement in the German-Evangelical Women's Association , in which she was an active participant and, after the founder Paula Müller-Otfried, was the director. Within the women's association, she played a key role in the development and expansion of welfare for the poor and orphans, particularly in the local work in Hanover . From 1923 to 1932 she was jointly responsible as editor of the Evangelical women's newspaper .

As early as 1904, at the 5th General Assembly of the German Evangelical Women's Association, von Bennigsen suggested the establishment of a social technical school, which she derived as a necessary consequence of the increasingly professional social work. In 1905 the training center was opened in Hanover. Von Benningsen, who took over the management of the school, commented:

This decision was noteworthy because - apart from training courses for Christian charity and humanitarian aid work - there were nowhere schools with full theoretical and practical training for social workers to be employed. The German-Evangelical Women's Association was thus the originator of the idea of ​​enabling young women to receive social training adapted to the times and at the same time to put a stop to the dilettantism that is more or less attached to all social and charitable aid work, from the stage of courses for every kind of helping , reforming work for the well-being of fellow human beings to step out into the regulated previous education and thus help a new women's profession to break through .

Following this example, further social schools for women have been founded over the years on a Catholic, Protestant and humanitarian basis .

Works

  • The way of duty, Leipzig 1907
  • The women's social profession , Berlin-Lichterfelde 1914
  • The development of the Christian-Social Women's Seminar, in: Paula Müller-Otfried (Ed.): 25 Years of the German-Evangelical Women's Association, Hanover 1924, pp. 11-14
  • Sexual education in home and school, Berlin-Lichterfelde o. J.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cit. n. Berger 1998, p. 75
  2. ↑ Bennigsen 1924, p. 11
  3. ↑ cit. n. Berger 1998, p. 76
personal data
SURNAME Bennigsen, Adelheid von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bennigsen, Adelheid Julie Luise Wilhelmine von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1938
Place of death Hanover