Elisabeth von Mumm

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Elisabeth Johanna Maria Mumm von Schwarzenstein (born March 27, 1860 in Cologne ; † March 30, 1933 there ) was a German women's rights activist .

biography

family

The Farina house , where Elisabeth von Mumm lived and died

Elisabeth Mumm was a daughter of Maria Margaretha Huberta Farina and Christian Friedrich August Mumm and came from two entrepreneurial dynasties with extensive family ties to other upper class families . She had three siblings, two brothers and a sister. The father was a Protestant, his wife, of Italian descent, a Catholic; such an interdenominational marriage was unusual at the time. When Elizabeth was 13 years old, the family Mumm was in the Prussian nobility raised and received the additional name "black stone" , 1896, they received "for her services to the best wines of the Rheingau" the Baron dignity accorded.

The family lived in Cologne at St.-Apern-Str. 75, where the company was also located. Elisabeth von Mumm lived there in the immediate vicinity of Mathilde von Mevissen , who lived in Zeughausstrasse and with whom she was to be a lifelong friend. After her father died in 1906, she moved to the house of the maternal family, the Farina house , where she lived until her death. She was extremely wealthy and remained single all her life. She was not allowed to do any training herself.

Commitment to girls and women

Elisabeth von Mumm was particularly interested in the education and fair payment of women. Together with Mathilde von Mevissen and the entrepreneur Ernst Leyendecker , she founded the Cologne women's training association in 1894 , which in the following year initiated the establishment of the commercial training school for girls at Rothgerberbach. In 1900 the first higher commercial school was founded in Prussia , which was taken over by the city of Cologne in 1920. 1907 was home economics training site on the High Street 55 and 1906 in cooperation with the Patriotic Women's Association , a cooking and housekeeping school in the Severin Mühlegasse 2 for home working ignorant girl from the middle class . From 1902, von Mumm was chairwoman of the Cologne Association of Women Employees , which later set up a loan and benefit fund as well as a dormitory for members and the establishment of an information and advice center for women's professional issues. In 1903 she founded the Cologne branch of the General German Women's Association (ADF) together with Rosa Bodenheimer and Adele Meurer .

Elisabeth von Mumm also worked to improve the living conditions of orphans . In 1905 or 1906 she was elected by the city council as the city's first "orphan councilor". “Many women saw this communal commitment as a great opportunity to make themselves indispensable in the city and community by faithfully fulfilling their duties ...”, said the Cologne historian Elisabeth Amling. Furthermore, she was involved in the West German Association for Women 's Suffrage , the Cologne Women's Rights Protection Association , the Wombner Association , the Women's Gymnasium Association , the Cologne Women's Club and the National Women's Community .

On the occasion of her 70th birthday, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger wrote about Fräulein von Mumm on March 26, 1930 : “The room forbids it to go into all areas in which she uses her rich experience and joyful willingness to work for the benefit of her fellow men and is willing to make sacrifices Has invested time and energy. There is a large number of those who offer her warm and sincere congratulations from a grateful heart on reaching her 70th year. "

Honor

In 2016, in Cologne-Sülz, the square between the church “ Zur Heiligen Familie ” and the Sülzgürtel on the former site of the Sülz children's home was renamed Elisabeth-von-Mumm-Platz . This is particularly intended to remember her work as the first Cologne orphanage councilor. In the new residential area created there, one building is called "Haus Elisabeth" and the entire area is called "anton + elisabeth" ("Anton" after Anton Antweiler, the founder of the Cologne-Sülz eG housing association).

literature

Individual evidence

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