Amélie von Soden

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Amélie Charlotte von Soden , née Freiin Hugo von Spitzemberg (born May 25, 1869 in Stuttgart , † February 21, 1953 in Überlingen ) was a German politician of the German Center Party . In 1919 she was one of the few female members of the Constituent Assembly in the newly formed state of Württemberg .

Life

Amélie Freiin von Spitzemberg came from the Lorraine noble family Spitzemberg . Her father Wilhelm Freiherr Hugo von Spitzemberg (1826–1888) worked as adjutant general to King Karl I of Württemberg and was an honorary citizen of Cannstatt . The family of her mother Maria, born Freiin von Herman , lived at Castle Wain in Wain .

On January 8, 1890, Amélie von Spitzemberg married the military Franz von Soden (1856-1945) in Stuttgart , a son of Alfred Karl August , the Chamberlain , Real Privy Councilor and President of the Administrative Court in Stuttgart, who worked for the King (just like her father) von Soden-Fraunhofen (1826–1894). From this marriage, five daughters were born between 1890 and 1905.

Amélie Freifrau von Soden volunteered in the areas of Caritas and education . In 1913, she succeeded her late mother-in-law Emilie von Soden (1835–1913) as president of the Elisabethverein and at the same time headed the girls' protection association . At the beginning of the First World War , in 1914 she actively helped with the care of wounded soldiers. In 1917 she was a member of the founding board of the Catholic German Women's Association (KDF) in Stuttgart.

Even after her husband retired as a highly decorated general of the infantry after the First World War in early 1919 , Amélie von Soden remained politically and voluntarily active. As a member of the German Center Party (ZENTRUM), she was elected at the age of 49 on January 12, 1919 as one of 13 women in the 150-seat Constituent Assembly of Württemberg. However, her political career only lasted a few months. On June 2, 1919, she resigned from this body for personal reasons; Her successor was Eugen Feil on July 19, 1919.

During the preparation of the German Catholic Day in Stuttgart in August 1925, von Soden was deputy chairman of the preparatory committee.

The von Soden couple last lived in Überlingen, where Franz von Soden died at the end of 1945. Amélie von Soden outlived her husband by seven years. She died in February 1953 at the age of 83 in Überlingen.

family

Her father's younger brother, Baron Carl von Spitzemberg (1826–1880), was the Württemberg envoy at the Prussian royal court in Berlin and married the Salonière Hildegard Freiin von Varnbuler . Her paternal grandparents were the Royal Württemberg Chamberlain, Lieutenant General and Hofjägermeister Franz Xaver Freiherr von Spitzemberg and Elisabeth von Massenbach .

Her daughters were Maria (* 1890), Irmgard (* 1892), Gisela (* 1895), Elisabeth (* 1901) and Mechthilde von Soden (* 1908). Her grandson Meinrad Freiherr von Ow bequeathed large parts of the family estate to the Baden-Württemberg State Archives .

literature

  • Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German MP since 1919 . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8 , pp. 78-79
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 360 .
  • Josef Weik: Member of the Bundestag and Landtag member of Baden-Württemberg 1945-1984 with a list of the members of parliament from Baden and Württemberg 1919-1933 , Stuttgart 1984, p. 293.
  • Frau Amalie von Soden in memory. In: Catholic Sunday Gazette of May 24, 1953.
  • Franz Stetter: Men and women of Caritas in Baden-Württemberg in the 19th century. Kepplerhaus 1928, p. 124.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Amélie von Soden in German Biography , accessed on March 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Joachim Köhler: Catholics in Stuttgart and their history , Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 1990, ISBN 3-7966-0646-6 , p. 206.
  3. ^ Thomas Fricke: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Department Main State Archives Stuttgart - Finding aid M 660/038: Military estate of Franz Ludwig Freiherr von Soden. In: www2.landesarchiv-bw.de. Retrieved March 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Soden, Amélie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freiin von Spitzemberg, Amélie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and member of the Constituent Assembly of the Free People's State of Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1953
Place of death Überlingen