Anna Weissebach

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Anna Weissebach

Anna Maria Weißebach (born March 15, 1811 in Trier ; † December 13, 1841 there ) is the founder of the Elisabeth associations and Elisabeth conferences, today's Caritas conferences in Germany.

Life

Weißebach was the daughter of the winery owner zu Kanzem Franz Weißebach and his wife Katharina Grach. Her nephew was Franz Weißebach . Like her great role model, St. Elisabeth of Thuringia , Weißebach died early in the service of the poor.

In 1840 Weißebach founded the first group of women active in voluntary social work in Germany in the spirit of the French priest Vincent von Paul in Trier with thirteen other distinguished women . With the founding of the first women's conference in 1617, this gave active charity an organized form for the first time. Weißebach took up this idea and is considered to be the founder of what is now known as the “Caritas Conference of Germany”. The association created u. a. the "Elisabeth kitchen" in the former Carmelite monastery and was approved by the bishop in the year it was founded. As a result of the Weißebach initiative, similar groups, Elisabeth associations, Elisabeth conferences and Women's Vinzenz associations emerged in many German cities and communities. Six years after it was founded, Anna Weißebach's name was added to the club's name.

The association's statutes stipulated: “We begin our association in the name and for the honor of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who taught us to regard every love service rendered to our fellow human beings as rendered to oneself, and by calling on the great nurse of the poor and the sick Saint Elisabeth, Countess of Hesse and Thuringia. "

After the First World War , the first diocesan associations came into being , which merged at the national level in 1931, and since 1950 under the name Elisabeth-Konferenz Deutschlands . In 1971 the name was changed to Caritas Conferences in Germany . In the same year, the Caritas conferences in Germany, together with 19 other national associations, reconstituted the Association Internationale des Charités (AIC). In Germany, around 90,000 employees work in around 3200 groups in the successor organization to the Elisabeth Association founded by Weißebach.

literature

  • Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the Diocesan Caritas Association Trier , Trier 1991, 20
  • Herbert Stöhr in: Heinz Monz (Ed.): Trier Biographical Lexicon , Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4

swell

  • Diocese archive Trier, B III 15, 7 Volumes 11, 12, 18 - Fb 3 Trier-St. Gangolf - Section 61, No. 291

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