Anna of Borries
Anna von Borries (born April 26, 1854 in Rehme ; † June 4, 1951 in Hanover ) used her assets to create the foundation for caring for physically disabled people in the form of the Annastift in Hanover.
Life
As a child, Anna von Borries suffered a permanent back problem from an accident and was orphaned at an early age . So she spent most of her youth with foster parents in Ratzeburg . In 1887 Anna von Borries came to Hanover. There she heard a lecture by Pastor Adolf Kottmeier , the founder of the Rotenburger Werke , about care for the disabled in Scandinavia. This inspired her to donate a large part of her fortune inherited from her grandfather August Abendroth in 1891 for the purpose of setting up a nursing home for “young cripples ”, from which the Annastift , named after her, developed.
Von Borries survived National Socialism . She died in Hanover at the age of 97. Her grave is in the Stephansstift cemetery .
Anna-von-Borries-Straße in Kleefeld was named after her in 2002 .
Fonts
- The Krüppelheim Annastift in front of Hanover and its development , Lutherhaus, 1927
literature
- Werner Dicke: Anna von Borries: The Helper of the Physically Handicapped , Witnesses of the Present God Vol. 61, Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1954
- 50 years Annastift , 1947
- Anna von Borries - Commemorative Address , 1951
- Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie & Co. Important women of Hanover. Biographische Portraits , Fackelträger, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , pp. 228-229
- Annastift - 100 years of competence and charity , 1997
- Götz von Borries: The Borries siblings . Fouqué Literaturverlag, Egelsbach / Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-8267-4225-7
- Jens Schmidt-Clausen: Borries, Anna Freifrau von. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 76.
- ders .: Borries, Anna Freifrau von as an excerpt from the Stadtlexikon Hannover in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from October 15, 2009, last accessed on October 10, 2011
Web links
- Literature by and about Anna von Borries in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borries, Anna from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borries, Anna Baroness of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Name giver of the Annastift named after her in Hanover |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rehme |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4th 1951 |
| Place of death | Hanover |