Agnes Neuhaus

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Agnes Neuhaus

Agnes Neuhaus , b. Morsbach, (born March 24, 1854 in Dortmund , † November 20, 1944 in Soest ) was a German politician of the center and founder of the "Association of the Good Shepherd", today's " Social Service of Catholic Women ".

Life

Agnes Neuhaus was the daughter of the secret medical councilor Franz Morsbach and his wife Florentine, nee. Riesberg. Her father held a number of important political offices in Dortmund: Chairman of the local doctors' association, president of the medical association of the Arnsberg district and the province of Westphalia. For many years he was a city councilor, later also a city councilor in Dortmund and a member of the supervisory board of the Harpen mining company. Agnes Neuhauss' mother Florentine was a well-known private teacher for French in Dortmund for a long time, so she had a recognized occupation at the time. She only stopped teaching after the birth of her third child. She headed a Catholic women's association, founded a maternity leave association and was also the chairwoman of the municipal childcare association. In addition, she organized Sunday classes to train kindergarten teachers.

Agnes Neuhaus attended elementary school and the Lyceum in Dortmund and from 1866 to 1869 the boarding school of the Uruslinen in Haselünne . From 1877 to 1878 she first studied music in Berlin . However, before completing her exams, she married Adolf Neuhaus, a court assessor, and had three children. Her husband, who had been a district judge in Dortmund since 1890, died in 1905.

Social policy

Since 1899 Neuhaus was heavily involved in poor relief in Dortmund . In that year she founded the first association of the “Good Shepherd” there, which took care of freeing girls and young women from prostitution . In 1903 it combined the 12 associations that had been founded throughout Westphalia to form the general association of the "Association of the Good Shepherd". In the same year the association founded the first house with the Dortmund “Vincenzheim”, in which the women were given a place of refuge. In addition to former prostitutes, single mothers and pregnant women were also accepted there. Affiliated to the Vincenzheim and later also to other houses founded by the “Good Shepherd” was a state-recognized infant care school. Because of her deep religiosity, Neuhaus always saw her commitment as a Christian service to guide the “ fallen girls ” back into the “lap of God”. The "Association for the Good Shepherd" was renamed at the turn of the year 1901/1902 in "Catholic Welfare Association for Girls, Women and Children" (since 1968: today's social service for Catholic women ). Agnes Neuhaus was also a leader in the Central Association of Catholic Welfare Associations, which she headed until 1944. In addition, she was a member of the central board of the German Caritas Association, the central board of the Catholic German Women's Association and a member of the Reich Commission of the General Welfare Education Day. In 1916 Neuhaus founded a welfare school, today's Anna-Zillken-Berufskolleg . In 1943 she moved from Dortmund to Cappenberg near Lünen, and later to Soest.

In the year of his death, 1944, there were over 60 local groups, always led by a woman. Agnes Neuhaus made these indispensable demands on each of the female executives: "Real religiosity, convincing Catholicism, because a) otherwise it will certainly not stand it, b) we will not agree".

MPs

Agnes Neuhaus was a member of the Weimar National Assembly for constituency 18 (Arnsberg) in 1919/1920 and was temporarily a member of the Constitutional Committee of the National Assembly. From 1920 to 1930 she represented the constituency of Westphalia-South in the Reichstag as a member of the Center Party. She was particularly involved in parliament for the passing of the Reich Youth Welfare Act , which she made a major contribution to in 1924. In particular, she spoke out in favor of denominational youth welfare, which she said was more efficient than state welfare. The state should only carry out the supervision.

Since 1919 she was a board member of the Westphalian Center Party, from 1925 a board member of the Center Party at the Reich level. In 1939 she was monitored by the Gestapo .

Honors

  • After Agnes Neuhaus u. a. the state-recognized private school Agnes-Neuhaus-Schule in Johannesstift in Wiesbaden and the Agnes-Neuhaus-Schule in Gießen, a special school - language therapy school and school for the sick.
  • There are streets named after Agnes Neuhaus in Dortmund (NRW), Munich (Bavaria) and Graben-Neudorf (Baden-Württemberg).
  • The Social Service of Catholic Women honors long-term and well-deserved employees with the Agnes Neuhaus Medal .
  • The agnes neuhaus café in Berlin-Niederschönhausen was named after Agnes Neuhaus.

Publications

  • From the history of the Catholic welfare association for girls, women and children . Dortmund 1925.
  • Political female activity . In: The Christian Woman . Year 1929, pp. 67–68.

literature

  • Headquarters of the Catholic welfare association for girls, women and children (ed.): Catholic welfare work in the 50th year of the work of Mrs. Agnes Neuhaus. Heritage, task and source of 50 years of work by the Catholic Welfare Association for Girls, Women and Children, presented in the lectures and work results of the anniversary conference from 13th to 16th September 1950 in Dortmund . Dortmund 1950.
  • Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , pp. 139 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
  • Bernd Haunfelder : Member of the Reichstag of the German Center Party 1871–1933. Biographical handbook and historical photographs (photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, volume 4). Droste, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-7700-5223-4 , pp. 2338-2339.
  • Maria Victoria Hopmann: Agnes Neuhaus. Life and work . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1949.
    • New edition revised and expanded by Heinz Neuhaus: Meinwerk-Verlag, Salzkotten 1977.
  • Hugo Maier , Ilona Winkelhausen (eds.): Agnes Neuhaus. Writings and speeches . Echter, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-429-02188-X .
  • Monika Pankoke-Schenk:  Neuhaus, Agnes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 123 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 147f.
  • Hugo Maier : Neuhaus, Agnes , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 428-431

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Heinz Neuhaus: Agnes Neuhaus: Life and Work. 2nd revised edition, p. 137.
  2. ^ Database of German members of parliament: Agnes Neuhaus
  3. ^ Biographies of German parliamentarians from 1848 to today (BIOPARL): Datasheet NEUHAUS, Agnes ( Memento from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Annual report 2008 of the SkF Osnabrück ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ To the name - agnes neuhaus café. In: agnesneuhaus-cafe.de. Retrieved July 29, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Neuhaus, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morsbach, Agnes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1944
Place of death Soest