Antonie Nopitsch

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Antonie Nopitsch (born August 3, 1901 in Traunstein ; † January 10, 1975 in Nuremberg ) founded the Bavarian Mothers 'Service (since 2002 FrauenWerk Stein eV in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria ) and the German Mothers' Recovery Organization - Elly-Heuss-Knapp Foundation . She was a diaconal pioneer of the 20th century.

Live and act

Antonie Nopitsch was the youngest of three children and grew up in a consciously evangelical family. Due to the professional career of the father, he was a veterinarian and animal inspector, the family moved to Munich. There Antonie Nopitsch attended the Max-Josef-Stift , a high school for girls . She passed her Abitur in the summer of 1920 as an external and only girl at the new Realgymnasium in Munich. From 1920 to 1925 she studied economics at the Munich University. Antonie Nopitsch completed her studies with a doctorate. The subject of her dissertation was: Japanese emigration. A study of its development and its causes . In it she dealt with questions of assimilation and the preservation of identity of people in exile (Hofmann 2000, p. 132).

After completing her studies, she completed various internships in various Munich authorities, including a. in police welfare, at the guardianship court and in the municipal welfare office. This was followed by a study visit to England with the Quakers at Woodbrooke College in Birmingham . There her desire for life to work socially solidified.

In May 1927 Antonie Nopitsch became a lecturer in social sciences and welfare law at the Evangelical Social Technical School for Women , which was supported by the Evangelical Diakonissenanstalt Neuendettelsau . After five years she had to leave the training center, her unconventional manner and her independence led to conflicts with the administration.

In 1933, Antonie Nopitsch began developing educational programs for mothers in consultation with the evangelical women's associations and the city of Nuremberg. From this the Bavarian Mothers Service , based in the Franconian metropolis, developed into an important welfare organization. The greats of the NSDAP tried again and again to win Antonie Nopitsch for the Nazi mother work, because the emphasis on the role of mother was fully in line with her National Socialist ideology : But she refused when it became clear to her that this work no longer had a Christian character. She tried to counteract the increasing political instrumentalization of motherhood by the National Socialists by placing greater emphasis on churchliness and by turning to religious topics and conveying religious content in women's work (Hofmann 2000, p. 134).

After the collapse of the Nazi dictatorship, she became involved in helping refugees in cooperation with the Bavarian Mothers' Service , as well as providing recreational care for women who were resettled. Another focus of Antonie Nopitsch was her engagement in ecumenical work. In 1948 she attended the founding assembly of the Ecumenical Council in Amsterdam. There and during a trip to the USA, Antonie Nopitsch got to know the World Day of Prayer . A year later, the liturgy for the World Day of Prayer Service was printed in stone. 10,000 copies were sent across Germany. Antonie Nopitsch also took over the leadership of Section VI at the meeting of the Lutheran World Federation in 1952 . Responsible women in a responsible church and was also a member of the commission for stewardship and community life from 1952 to 1963 .

Together with Elly Heuss-Knapp , Antonie Nopitsch developed the idea of ​​founding the German Mothers' Convalescence Organization , which was finally implemented in 1950. The maternal convalescence organization was the first interdenominational organization of voluntary welfare, of which she was managing director for many years. Antonie Nopitsch worked in many committees, for example in the Diaconal Council of the Evangelical Church ; in the leadership group of Protestant women's work , in the main committee of the German Association , in the German National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation , to name just a few.

Honors

Antonie Nopitsch has received many awards for her social, church-political and ecumenical services:

She was also awarded the Wichern plaque of the Inner Mission and the silver medal of the German Stock Exchange Association.

In Bad Bevensen , a therapy center run by the Elly Heuss Knapp Foundation - the German Association for Mothers' Convalescence - bears her name.

Fonts (selection)

  • Evangelische Mütterhilfe, in: Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt Nürnberg 1933 / Nr. 40, p. 251
  • Blessing the call, Nuremberg 1946
  • See, here is the door to true joys, Nuremberg 1946
  • Love never ends, Nuremberg 1946
  • Frosted day, Nuremberg 1962
  • The joy of joy, Nuremberg 1964
  • A look at Africa, Nuremberg 1965
  • The garden on the roof, Nuremberg 1970

literature

  • Manfred Berger :  NOPITSCH, Antonie. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 28, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-413-7 , Sp. 1171-1186.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Beate Hofmann: Good mothers - strong women. History and working method of the Bavarian Mothers Service. Stuttgart 2000.
  • Beate Hoffmann: Antonie Nopitsch. In: Inge Mager (Hrsg.): Women's profiles of Lutheranism. Life stories in the 20th century. Gütersloh 2005, pp. 487-500.
  • Adelheid M. von Hauff (Ed.): Women shape diakonia. Volume 2: From the 18th to the 20th century. Stuttgart 2006, pp. 532-550.
  • FrauenWerk Stein eV (Ed.): Memories of Dr. Antonie Nopitsch (August 3, 1901 to January 10, 1975). Stein no year
  • Irmgard Esselborn: Nopitsch, Antonie , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 441f. (there in the lemma a spelling mistake in the family name)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helga Hiller: Ecumenism of women . Düsseldorf 1999 (KlensVerlag), ISBN 3-87309-173-9 , page 125 f.
personal data
SURNAME Nopitsch, Antonie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social worker, founder of the "Bavarian Mothers Service" and the "German Mothers' Recovery Association - Elly Heuss Knapp Foundation"
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Traunstein
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1975
Place of death Nuremberg