Anna Blum
Anna Blum , b. Helwerth (born October 12, 1843 in Heidelberg ; † July 3, 1917 ibid) was a functionary of the Baden Women's Association and founder of women's welfare institutions in the Grand Duchy of Baden .
Life
Anna Blum came from the Heidelberg innkeeper family David Heinrich Helwerth and Elisabeth, geb. Dry The family business of the "Badischer Hof" was in 1848 the location of the " Heidelberger Versammlung ". Here liberals and democrats debated national unity and democratic rights together.
In 1872 she married Wilhelm Blum , MdR (1881–1904). A financially independent position allowed the couple to maintain an independent lifestyle; Wilhelm Blum was assigned to the class of the highest taxed persons in Baden's three-tier suffrage and a member of the Reichstag for the National Liberals. As the wife of the member of the Reichstag and because of her own property, she was part of the middle class upper class of Heidelberg. The couple remained childless.
Anna Blum was a women's rights activist in the broader sense. With a conservative focus on values, she campaigned for the recognition of female culture, for the improvement of living conditions for women in need and for the unrestricted recognition of the human dignity of women. An unrestricted democratically documented right to vote for women and men was not their political field of action. As a representative of the moderate wing of the bourgeois women's movement , she distinguished herself from both the proletarian women's movement and the radical wing of the bourgeois women's movement, which fought for universal, equal and secret suffrage for all people.
Act
Anna Blum became secretary in the Badischer Frauenverein , Heidelberg branch in 1875 . Until 1917 she was a functionary of the largest mass organization for women in the Grand Duchy of Baden. She promoted measures for social reform: the workers' education association, the public library and, as secretary of the Heidelberg branch, coordinated the voluntary work performed by women in the university town.
In 1893 the couple donated 30,000 marks for the construction of a free municipal swimming pool in the Neckar, which was opened in 1898 as Blum'sches Freibad am Neckar. In 1906, the widowed Anna Blum donated a further 20,000 marks to expand it to include a public women's bath, which opened in 1907 and was destroyed by floods in May 1931.
In 1895, at the suggestion of the club protector, Grand Duchess Luise von Baden , she founded a patching school, which organized school-leaving girls a time-limited range of handicraft lessons. Until 1904, Blum organized the work and trade school, later the women's work school. When the association could no longer raise the personnel costs, especially for the pension scheme for the teachers, the municipality took over the operation. In 1904, Blum also took over the chairmanship of the “Committee for Preparations for War”.
Anna Blum donated money and two properties, namely her house at Theaterstrasse 10 and the so-called Blümlis Alp at Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 6, in order to found an old people's home for women and a rest home for women and children in Heidelberg. Both projects were not implemented for reasons related to the war, but the self-interests of the city administration cannot be pushed aside, so that women's concerns have no place.
Honors
- In 1913 her financial and moral commitment to the city of Heidelberg was recognized by the city council and she was named Heidelberg's first female honorary citizen.
- 1977 the property Theaterstr. 10 is the seat of the Deutsches Frauenring eV and is named "Anna-Blum-Haus" by it, in recognition of the work of the first honorary citizen of Heidelberg.
- 2013 The “Anna Blum” memorial plaque is permanently attached to the Anna Blum House by the City of Heidelberg.
- 2015 Inauguration of Anna Blum Platz at Theaterstraße 10, directly at the address of the garden of the planned "Blümlis Hof"
Web links
literature
- Ilona Scheidle: The finished fact speaks for itself. For the 90th year of death of the first female honorary citizen Anna Blum. In: Heidelberger Geschichtsverein (ed.) Heidelberg. Yearbook of the City of Heidelberg 2007, pp. 69–98.
- Ilona Scheidle: Do good and throw it into the sea. The first honorary citizen Anna Blum, in: Heidelbergerinnen die Geschichte wrote, Munich 2006, pp. 75–85.
- Ilona Scheidle: If the fish doesn't know, the Lord knows. The legacy of Anna Blum, the first female “honorary citizen” of Heidelberg . In: Heidelberger Geschichtsverein (ed.): Yearbook on the history of the city. Heidelberg 1997, pp. 181-189.
- Ilona Scheidle: From the state maternal regiment to the bourgeois mass organization: The Badischer Frauenverein - Heidelberg branch . In: City of Heidelberg (ed.): The past is the sister of the future - 800 years of women's city history in Heidelberg. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 240-253.
- Ilona Scheidle: To honor the city: Anna Blum - first honorary citizen of Heidelberg , in: Women design , edited by Peter Blum, 1995, 11-25.
- Ruth Lutzmann: Anna Blum - her life's work. Typescript, Heidelberg o. D.
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Heidelberg: heidelberg.de - March 30, 2015 A place in honor of Anna Blum. In: www.heidelberg.de. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blum, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Helwerth, Anna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Functionary of the Badischer Frauenverein and founder of women's welfare organizations in the Grand Duchy of Baden |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1917 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |