August Loeber

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August Loeber

Friederike Auguste Löber (born November 22, 1824 in Cottbus as Friederike Auguste Feige ; † January 15, 1897 there) was a German founder . With her legacy, she established the Auguste Foundation in Cottbus.

Life

Auguste Feige was born in Cottbus in 1824 as her parents' only child. Her father Johann Samuel Feige ran a tavern with brewing rights at the Cottbuser Markt . In April 1856 she met the merchant Ludwig Wilhelm Löber from Osterburg when he came to her for shelter during a storm. In August of the same year, the two married. Later, her husband made himself liable to prosecution as a bankruptcy administrator because he embezzled money for friends. He initially fled, but was caught and sentenced to imprisonment, which he served in the Cottbus prisonhad to sit down. His wife often visited him there. After his release, the couple was publicly shunned by the town's better society, although the damage caused was settled. Auguste, who was running a mineral water factory at the Cottbuser Markt at the time, had become a wealthy woman. In addition to her parents' inheritance, she also inherited from two rich, childless sisters of her mother. She also shared this money with those seeking help, for whom she also cooked herself. That's why the saying goes in Cottbus: "If your money is running low, go to Auguste Feige."

Black tombstone with gold writing attached to an ivy-covered wall. The inscription reads: Auguste Löber, nee Feige, born Nov. 22, 1824, died Jan. 15, 1897, founder of the Auguste Foundation, "Blessed are the merciful, for they will attain mercy.", Matt. 5.7
Auguste Löber's tombstone in the Cottbus North Cemetery.

Ludwig Wilhelm Löber died in the summer of 1896. Auguste Löber also died in the following January. She was buried in the Cottbus North Cemetery .

Auguste Foundation

Two days before her death, Auguste Löber had stipulated in her will that her assets should go to the newly created Auguste Foundation . The value of the inheritance was estimated at 500,000 to 600,000 marks and also included some land and buildings. The purpose of the foundation was to provide free apartments and a monthly pension in a monastery building that was to be built to "clean evangelical girls and widows of better social standing who were born in Cottbus and who adhere to the church". The condition for this was the neediness of the women. In addition, married or divorced women could not be favored if their husbands were still alive. The Auguste-Stift , which was inaugurated on June 30, 1900, was built in Inselstrasse with the money. It provided 24 or 30 apartments, as well as common rooms and shared bathrooms. A well-known resident was the Cottbus writer Amalie Marby . In addition, at the instigation of Auguste Löber, a residential building for teachers of the nearby high school was built in what is now Dreifertstraße 8 .

The foundation grew through the donations of money and additional real estate into the 1940s. Even after the end of the Second World War , the foundation continued to operate. However, she got into difficulties due to the changed political conditions. From January 1946, the administration of the foundation was handed over to the social welfare office of Cottbus due to the lack of a board of trustees . In March 1949, the mayor of Cottbus, Otto Weihrauch , wrote a letter to the state government of Brandenburg , in which he called for the foundation to be dissolved. He was particularly bothered by the fact that, according to the statutes, the beneficiaries of the foundation could only come from the better classes. The dissolution was rejected. Instead, the city should appoint a new board of trustees, which should remove the relevant passage from the statute.

On February 7, 1955, the Auguste Foundation was dissolved by the decision of the City Council of Cottbus. This decision was reversed after German reunification . According to the decision of the Brandenburg Ministry of the Interior dated September 23, 1998, the foundation continues to exist in accordance with Article 231 §3 of the EGBGB . In addition, she received back the foundation's assets, which consisted of six partially developed plots of land, among other things. On September 24, 1998, a new Board of Trustees was constituted. The purpose of the foundation was adjusted. In the future, needy women and girls living in Cottbus should be supported regardless of their faith. The Auguste-Stift in Feigestrasse has housed a rehabilitation center since 2003.

honors

In 1905, the part of Inselstraße where the Auguste-Stift is located was renamed Feigestraße . The street still bears this name today. Auguste Löber was thus honored under her maiden name.

literature

  • L. Dierbach: What the promenade tells us. Chats from the past of our city of Cottbus . Albert Heine Verlag, Cottbus 1912, pp. 175-178.
  • Ulrike Elsner: Cottbus Foundation preserves legacy of Auguste Feige . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , April 10, 2010 ( online , accessed January 6, 2018).
  • Heinz Petzold: suffering and pride of Auguste Feige In: people from Cottbus. Images of life from the past... Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 1997, ISBN 3-932363-09-4 , pp. 41-44.
  • Siegrid Robaschik: Witch Lady Queen: Women of Lower Lusatia in the timeline of a millennium. Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2003, ISBN 3-936092-72-9 , pp. 65–67.
  • Auguste Feige . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , November 23, 2009 ( online , accessed January 6, 2018).
  • Auguste Löber donates a fortune for social purposes. Auguste Foundation is alive. In: Wochenkurier, January 12, 2017 ( online , accessed January 6, 2018).

web links

itemizations

  1. ↑ a b c d e See Petzold 1997
  2. ^ See Dierbach 1912
  3. ↑ a b See Wochenkurier 2017
  4. ↑ History. In: Auguste Foundation website. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b See Robaschik 2003
  6. ↑ Siegrid Robaschik: AMALIE MARBY - "tailor-made" novels? In: Cottbus homeland calendar 2006. Cottbus City Council - Press Office, Historical Homeland Association Cottbus (ed.), Cottbus 2006, pp. 89-90.
  7. ↑ a b Statutes of the Auguste Foundation in Cottbus. December 16, 1999, retrieved January 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ EGBGB Art. 231 §3
  9. ↑ See Lausitzer Rundschau 2009
personal data
SURNAME Loeber, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löber, Friederike Auguste (full name); Feige, Friederike Auguste (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder
BIRTH DATE Nov. 22, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1897
PLACE OF DEATH cottbus