Elisabeth Jaeger (deaconess)

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Elisabeth Jaeger (born March 13, 1892 in Bad Soden , † February 26, 1969 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German deaconess .

Life

Elisabeth Jaeger house

Elisabeth Jaeger was born in Bad Soden in 1892 as the daughter of a pastor . For health reasons, she finished school at the age of 14 and was privately prepared for her Abitur. She graduated first in Frankfurt a three-year training as a music teacher in the subject violin . In 1916 she gave up her profession as a violin teacher in Bad Soden and entered the service of the Diakonieanstalten Bad Kreuznach (today the kreuznacher diakonie foundation ). On October 31, 1929 she was consecrated as a deaconess. On July 22, 1932, she was appointed head of the Deaconess Mother House by the Board of Directors. In 1952 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon by Prime Minister Peter Altmeier for her services in the charitable field, especially for the reconstruction after World War II . In 1972 the Elisabeth-Jaeger-Haus was inaugurated for after-work nurses. After the house was demolished in 2007, the newly built Elisabeth Jaeger Haus senior citizens' home in Bad Kreuznach was also named after her.

Trivia

“During the festive season of the year, she made her violin sound. It could also happen that she played on Saturday afternoons to the delight of the sick nurses in the nurses' infirmary and thus gave silent joy. "

- Gertrud Heublein: The sisterhood of the 2nd Rhenish deaconess mother house Bad Kreuznach . In: 100 years of Diakonieanstalten Bad Kreuznach. P. 180.

literature

  • Diakonie-Anstalten Bad Kreuznach (ed.): 100 years of Diakonieanstalten Bad Kreuznach . 1989.
  • Hedwig Brüchert : Rhineland-Palatinate women: women in politics, society, economy and culture in the early years of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hedwig Brüchert: Rhineland-Palatinate Women: Women in Politics, Society, Economy and Culture in the Early Years of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
  2. ^ Rheinhard Witschke: Diakonie moves: 150 years of Inner Mission and Diakonie in the Rhineland
  3. ↑ Historischer Verein Bad Soden: Listed and worth preserving graves in Bad Soden and in Neuenhain
  4. ↑ Martin Hamburger: From Bethel to Bad Kreuznach: the path of the Rhenish pastor Johannes Hanke (1887-1958) in the Church and Inner Mission from the late Empire to the early Federal Republic.
  5. ↑ Ulrike Winkler: 125 years of the kreuznacher diakonie foundation (1889–2014) . P. 317
personal data
SURNAME Jaeger, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German deaconess
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH bad Soden
DATE OF DEATH 26th February 1969
Place of death Bad Kreuznach