Adolphine von Rohr
Adolphine von Rohr (born March 25, 1855 in Trier , † October 18, 1923 in Seefeld near Pritzwalk ) was an abbess of the monastery Stift zum Heiligengrabe .
Life
Adolphine was the daughter of the later royal Prussian lieutenant general Hermann Konstantin von Gersdorff and his wife Clara Agnes Marianne von Gersdorff (born February 8, 1827 in Nieder-Oertmannsdorf, † August 2, 1881 in Hanover).
She initially received home tuition with her two sisters until 1869, only to be sent to a school in Kassel and then to enter the boarding school in Altenburg Abbey . After her father died at Sedan in 1870 , she returned to her mother. She stayed there until her marriage to Louis von Rohr on May 31, 1875.
Housewife ended on October 25, 1882 when her husband died of typhus . She moved to Potsdam and attended a Johanniter course on nursing in Berlin's Elisabethen Hospital . She then took on the maternal role of Princess Elisabeth von Waldeck and was later appointed by the Princess Bathildis of Waldeck to be their chief stewardess. On May 4, 1899, Emperor Wilhelm II appointed Adolphine von Rohr to the abbess of Heiligengrabe as the successor of the late Margarethe von Alvensleben, against violent objections from the monastery convent, which took offense at her earlier marriage . As abbess, she campaigned for a return to the social tasks of a women's monastery and promoted in particular the school and professional training of young penniless girls. Emperor Wilhelm, who valued and supported her, visited her in the monastery and in 1901 gave her the abbess's staff . Among other things, she enforced the recognition of the school as a "Higher Girls' School" in 1908. In addition to her social endeavors, she also supported local history research and helped found a local history museum in the south wing of the abbey in 1909. At the end of the First World War, she obtained approval for the sale of from the "State Commissioner for the Regulation of Welfare in Prussia" Publications of the Vaterländische Verlags- und Kunstanstalt , owner: Verein für Berliner Stadtmission , Berlin , to "support war orphans in the educational institution of the Heiligengrabe monastery ( Prignitz )."
Web links
- Portrait drawing of Abbess Adolphine von Rohr, drawn in 1902 by Hans Wey; Museum of the Stift zum Heiligengrabe monastery
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Life's works, women in the monastery Stift zum Heiligengrabe . Verlag Monumente, pages 43/44 (2000)
- ↑ Source reference: Permission to sell printed matter to support the war orphans in the educational institution of the Heiligengrabe Monastery (Prignitz) at the “Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage” in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rohr, Adolphine von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbess of the monastery Stift zum Heiligengrabe |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1923 |
| Place of death | Seefeld near Pritzwalk |