Cecilie Brickenstein

Cecilie Brickenstein (born December 10, 1886 in Bremen , † November 19, 1979 in Bremen) was a German deaconess and Bremen politician ( DNVP ).

biography

Brickenstein was the daughter of the captain of the crashed passenger ship Germany and then coal merchant Carl Wilhelm Eduard Brickenstein (1847-1926) and his wife Caroline Wilhelmine. She grew up with a sister and four brothers. She attended a private girls' school and in 1912 Johann Janson's teacher training college. During the First World War she worked in social youth work and was soon in a leading position. In 1916 she was appointed to the federal executive committee of the German Evangelical Women's Association, from 1918 she was second chairwoman of the German-Evangelical association of social youth groups and in 1921 chairwoman. From 1921 to 1932 she published the association magazine Werden und Wirken and gave lectures throughout Germany.

In 1919 she joined the German National People's Party (DNVP) at the work of Mathilde Plate (DNVP) and was the chairwoman of the women's group in Bremen. In 1927 she ran unsuccessfully for the Bremen citizenship . From 1930 to 1933 she was elected to parliament and was represented on the debtor's committee. A distance to the emerging Nazi ideology was clearly recognizable.

In the 1930s Brickenstein became deaconess and in 1938 superior at the motherhouse in Hermannswerder near Potsdam . She successfully fended off the NSDAP committees from interfering in the life of the mother house. With the help of Otto Dibelius , Bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg , she was able to prevent political influence in the first post-war years . In 1948 she retired. In 1962 she returned to Bremen and lived in the eastern suburbs . She then headed the ecumenical home of the Friedehorst Foundation in Bremen - Burglesum for a year .
She was buried in the Riensberg cemetery .

literature

• Elisabeth Hannover-Drück : Brickenstein, Cecilie . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .

Web links

• Portrait women museum