Caroline Fliedner
Caroline Fliedner (born Bertheau, born January 26, 1811 in Hamburg , † April 15, 1892 in Monsheim ) was the head of the Kaiserswerth deaconess institution .
Life
Caroline Bertheau was born as the 9th child of the wine merchant Henry Auguste Bertheau (1773-1831) and his second wife Carolina. Ernst Bertheau and Carl Bertheau the Elder were two of their brothers. The Huguenot roots of the family can be traced back to the 17th century, when the watchmaker Samuel Bertheau, who belonged to the French upper class, was forced to leave his home in Mer near Blois near Orléans as a supporter of the Reformed Church in 1685, to settle in Hamburg and there as a wine merchant quickly brought to prosperity. His grandson François Diedrich (1734–1826) was able to acquire citizenship in Hamburg, which strengthened the family's social reputation and awareness of the elite. During the French period in Hamburg , however, the family suffered an economic decline from which they should not recover.
Caroline attended Amalie Sieveking's “School for Young Girls” , which brought her to the Hamburg revival movement . After her father died in 1831, which brought the family into direct economic hardship, she took up a position as a teacher on an estate in Holstein. In 1840, at the suggestion of Amalie Sieveking, she took over the position of supervisor at the St. Georg Hospital in Hamburg , where she met Theodor Fliedner .
In 1843 she married Fliedner, whose first wife Friederike had died shortly before in childbed. The marriage had eight children. Caroline Fliedner outlived her husband, who died in 1864, by 27 years.
Life's work
The Kaiserswerther Diakonie , founded in 1836 as the world's first deaconess parent company, is one of the largest diaconal social and health companies in Germany with almost 2,000 employees. Caroline Fliedner served as head of Kaiserswerth for a total of 40 years, which she continued after the death of her husband together with her stepson (son T. Fliedner's (1st marriage)).
She then worked in the deaconess house in Berlin and visited the stations in Dresden, Frankfurt, Worms and Saarbrücken. In the times of Theodor Fliedner's absence, as a member of the board, she was his representative. Their influence on the development of the entire work was great.
The estate of Caroline Fliedner is in the archive of the Fliedner Cultural Foundation.
Remembrance day
April 15th in the Evangelical Name Calendar .
literature
- Katrin Irle: Life and Work of Caroline Fliedner, geb. Bertheau, the second head of the deaconess institution in Kaiserswerth. Diss. Phil. Siegen 2002. Available online at ( PDF )
- Rudolph Bauer : Fliedner, Caroline , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 173f.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Caroline Fliedner in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fliedner, Caroline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bertheau, Karoline (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Head of the Diakonissenanstalt Kaiserswerth |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1892 |
| Place of death | Monsheim |