Anna Lauter

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Anna Lauter , b. Wilser (born March 29, 1847 in Karlsruhe ; † December 28, 1926 there ) was a president of the Baden Red Cross Sisterhood .

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Anna Blum House in Heidelberg, 1995

Anna Wilser joined the Baden Women's Association in 1871 at the age of 24, which was founded in 1859 by Grand Duchess Luise . In 1890 she married the then mayor Wilhelm Florentin Lauter. The marriage was short: Wilhelm Lauter died in 1892.

In 1899 Anna Lauter became president of the Baden Red Cross Sisterhood. She was one of the women from Karlsruhe who helped to build up the city's health and social services; Among other things, she also founded a workers' home and a retirement home for small pensioners. In 1918 her work was published on the work of Grand Duchess Luise in the First World War . As president of the Baden Red Cross Sisterhood, Lauter often stayed in the Anna Blum House in Heidelberg , the seat of the President of the Heidelberg Red Cross Sisters, Anna Blum .

Anna Lauter is buried in the main cemetery in Karlsruhe .

Honors

  • 2000 naming of Anna-Lauter-Strasse in the Karlsruhe Südstadt (eastern part)

Publications

  • Grand Duchess Luise and her effectiveness in the World War , Lahr 1918
  • Grand Duchess Luise and social hygiene , essay in: "Social hygiene messages" VII, No. 3/4
  • several articles in the papers of the Badischer Frauenverein

literature

  • Susanne Asche: Anna Lauter , in: Blick in die Geschichte , No. 16 (1992), p. 1
  • Kerstin Lutzer: The Badische Frauenverein 1859-1918 , 2002, ISBN 3-1-7017034-1 , p. 212, 419 and 447
  • Susanne Asche: Karlsruhe Women , pp. 225, 256 and 329
  • Annette Borchardt-Wenzel: The women at the Badischer Hof , Gernsbach 2001, p. 322

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