Auguste Jauch

Auguste Jauch

Auguste Jauch (born April 20, 1822 in Kiel , † January 4, 1902 in Hamburg , ± Jauch family crypt in the Hammer Cemetery ) was a Hamburg benefactress.

Origin and family

Jauch was the daughter of the watchmaker Nicolaus Georg Stubbe in Kiel. At the age of 26 she married the Hamburg citizen and first lieutenant of the Hanseatic Cavalry Moritz Jauch (1804–1876), son of the merchant Johann Christian Jauch senior (1765–1855), whom she survived by 26 years. Her only son, Hermann Jauch (1858–1916), was the master of Schönhagen and builder of the manor house there .

After Jauch's death, numerous family members became involved in the foundations she had established. Their example was followed by August Jauch (1848–1930), Herr auf Fernsicht, and Robert Jauch (1856–1909), Herr auf Krummbek, who - not dependent on income - moved from their estates to Hamburg and also cared for their lives there in the Hanseatic tradition Dedicated tasks.

Act

Jauch was the founder of several charitable foundations , to which she donated considerable sums of money from the rich legacy that her husband had bequeathed to her. She was particularly concerned about alleviating the misery of the poor classes in Hamburg. These lived under inhumane conditions in the so-called Gängeviertel .

In addition to the foundation houses, Jauch provided all foundations so generously with capital that it was not until the destruction of all three foundation houses in the bombing nights of Operation Gomorrah in 1943 against Hamburg and during the air raids on Kiel that their activities were limited - which inflation had not been able to do. so that the Hamburg-based foundations were dissolved by the Hamburg Foundation Authority after the Second World War and their remaining assets were transferred to the Hospitality and Hospital Foundation .

In addition to looking after her own foundations, Auguste Jauch actively promoted Wichern's Inner Mission . The Hamburg mayor Mönckeberg gave the well-known philanthropist the funeral speech and paid tribute to her services to the city's social affairs.

The Jauchsche Damenstift - right behind the Jacobikirche in Kiel , both destroyed in 1944 (Fritz Stoltenberg 1890)

Hamburg, Stadtdeich 9
office of JC Jauch & Sons
1891 Jauchsche foundation
"Home for old men"
destroyed 1943 ( Operation Gomorrah )
(watercolor Ebba Tesdorpf around 1880)

Auguste Jauch pen

In 1892, the last major cholera outbreak on German soil occurred in Hamburg , which assumed devastating proportions due to Hamburg's peculiarities. Small cholera epidemics struck Hamburg as early as 1822, 1831, 1832, 1848, 1859, 1866 and 1873. Because of the misery described, Jauch carried out regular feeding of the poor in Hamburg from around 1879 and tried to improve the living conditions of the poor.

She acquired the Bürgerweide 59 building in Hamburg-Borgfelde , where she set up free apartments for needy widows and a soup kitchen including dining rooms for poor children in 1889 , which fed 50 children a day. The Bürgerweide was a preferred location for foundations. Among other things, the Hiobs Hospital and the Alida-Schmidt-Stift were located there.

This foundation was very important to her and she managed it herself until her death.

"Ladies pencil out of gratitude"

In 1884 she built in Kiel next to the Church of St. James, a convent , called the convent in gratitude for "educated, unmarried ladies."

Men's home "home for old men"

In 1891, together with her son Hermann, she and her son Hermann dedicated the old Hamburg headquarters of the Jauch family to a monastery with free apartments "for single, old men from the working class with limited ability to work " including free board. In 1899 the monastery accommodated 21 people.

In 1933, after extensive renovation, the baroque house was entered under number 107 on the list of cultural monuments in the Hamburg district of Hamburg-Mitte .

Art foundations

Auguste Jauch owned an extensive collection of paintings and asiatica, from which she donated individual items to various institutions, some of which she had acquired on her trips to the Far East that reached as far as Japan.

Quotes

Auguste Jauch received the news of her husband's death in Hamburg on one of her long-distance trips to Istanbul . According to tradition, she wired back to the telegraphic message: "Bury him worthily."

literature

• Dagmar Seifert: From savages and a benefactress. In: Der Hamburger , text version online , accessed on January 9, 2013
• Christian Stubbe: The women's pen out of gratitude in Kiel, For the Golden Jubilee 1936 , Kiel 1936 - copy in the Kiel city archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kiel.ingowelt.de: Kiel then and now - photos of historic and present-day Kiel , accessed on March 12, 2011
2. ↑ Hermann Joachim (hsgg. From arms-College), Handbook of charity in Hamburg, 1901, p 100
3. ↑ Jonas Ludwig von Hess : Das Hiobs-Hospital . In: Hamburg described topographically, politically and historically . 2nd revised and enlarged edition. Second part. Brüggemann, Hamburg 1811, OCLC 314680251 , p. 172–197 ( digitized from Google Books [accessed February 26, 2015]).
4. ^ Helene Lange, Gertrud Bäumer, Die Frau: Monthly for the entire women's life of our time , Volume 1, 1889, p. 482
5. ↑ Joachim p. 299
6. ^ Friedrich von Boetticher, Painters Works of the Nineteenth Century: Contribution to Art History , Volume 1, Part 1, 1974, pp. 5f
7. ↑ See Siegfried Weiß, Hans Paffrath (Ed.), Preyer , Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-003-9 , p. 130
8. ↑ Hamburg. High school board. Section for the Scientific Institutions, Yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutions , Volumes 15-16, 1898, p. CXLVIII
9. ↑ Petra Hinz, Japonism in graphics, drawing and painting in the German-speaking countries around 1900 , 1982, p. 27f
10. ↑ Petra Hinz, Japonism in graphics, drawing and painting in the German-speaking countries around 1900 , 1982, p. 36 fn. 348
11. ↑ “The Japanese pottery department has also benefited from valuable gifts. We owe a major piece, the Koro from Takatori in the province of Chikuzen, shown at the head of this section, to Ms. Auguste Jauch. ”, Yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutions. XIII. Volume, 1895, page CIV