Albertine Assor

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Albertine Assor (born March 22, 1863 in Zinten / East Prussia , † February 22, 1953 in Hamburg ) was a Baptist deaconess and founder of the Albertinen Diakoniewerk in Hamburg, which was later named after her .

Life

Albertine Assor came from a Baptist pastor family. She learned the trade of a seamstress and acquired knowledge in the commercial field.

Berlin and Bochum

After various activities as a city missionary in Berlin-Moabit and Stade and as head of a girls' home in Dortmund , she was appointed to the diaconal service of the Berlin Baptist congregations in 1891 by preacher Eduard Scheve , the founder of the German Baptist diaconia and external mission . The Bergemann'sche Missionsgesellschaft was responsible for their work . Albertine Assor was initially involved in Sunday school work and started a “ virgin association ”. In 1894 she was entrusted with the management of a girls' home in Bochum , but returned to Berlin a year later to do pioneering work in a newly founded community.

Tabea Altona / Elbe

From 1902 she worked in the deaconess house Tabea , which was attached to the Baptist congregation of Altona , where she soon took on a management position as superior. There was a conflict with the Tabea deaconesses. Albertine Assor left the deaconess community with eight other sisters.

Siloah Hamburg

Albertine Assor , memorial stone ( memory spiral ), women's garden, Ohlsdorf cemetery

In 1907 Albertine Assor and the sisters who had also resigned founded a new diakonia community under the name of Siloah , an association of sisters baptized in faith for the exercise of Christian charity in nursing and other works of charity. She gave her fellow sisters free to live in an open nurses' home or in a deaconess mother house determined by religious rules. Her fellow sisters opted for the obligatory life as a deaconess and initially worked in housekeeping. Her domicile was initially a six-room apartment in the Hamburg district of Eimsbüttel (Fettstrasse), later a building with 22 rooms in the same district (Schulstrasse). In 1918 the deaconess community, which had meanwhile grown to 60 sisters, moved to Tornquiststrasse in Eimsbüttel. In addition to her work in nursing, she continued to work among girls and women. In 1923 she started building a maternity home in Schorborn . In 1925 she became superior of the deaconess association Siloam she founded , which in 1927 became the sponsor of the first Baptist hospital. After her retirement in 1941, the Siloah Hospital was renamed "Albertinenhaus", later "Albertinen Hospital", in her honor and under the pressure of National Socialism.

Albertine Assor is commemorated on a memorial stone in the " Garden of Women " at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Fonts

  • Your eyes saw me (edited and supplemented by Frank Fornaçon), Ahnatal 2007, ISBN 9783940232007
  • Women of the Bible , Hamburg undated

literature

  • Frank Fornaçon: How good that my mother doesn't need to see it. Albertine Assor founded the Siloah deaconess home 100 years ago. In: The community. The magazine of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches, No. 5 of March 4, 2007, pp. 10–11 (without ISSN, ZDB -ID 1157992-4 ).
  • Frank Fornaçon: On a clear course for the future. The Albertinen Diakoniewerk celebrates its 100th birthday. In: Die Gemeinde, No. 10 of April 29, 2007, pp. 12-13.
  • Inge Grolle : Assor, Albertine . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 20-21 .
  • Martha Kropat: Albertine Assor - a life for Christ and his kingdom. In: Die Gemeinde, 1953, No. 6.
  • Albertinenhaus (ed.): 50 years of the Albertinen-Haus 1907–1957. Hamburg 1957.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical Free Church Community Hamburg I: Festschrift 150 Years Oncken Congregation. 1834-1984 , Hamburg 1984, p. 44
  2. ↑ Günter Balders: One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. 150 years of Baptist congregations in Germany , Wuppertal and Kassel 1985 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-7893-7883-6 , p. 339
  3. ↑ Evangelical Free Church Community Hamburg I: Festschrift 150 Years Oncken Congregation. 1834-1984 , Hamburg 1984, p. 43
personal data
SURNAME Assor, Albertine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Baptist deaconess , founder of the Hamburg Albertinen Diakoniewerk
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Zinten , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1953
Place of death Hamburg