Ella Schmittmann

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Helene Wilhelmine Maria Johanna Nepomucena "Ella" Schmittmann , née Wahlen , (born April 2, 1880 in Cologne , † December 21, 1970 ibid) was a German social politician.

family

Helene ("Ella") Wahlen came from a Cologne merchant family. She was the daughter of Johann Baptist Wahlen (1850-1927), who ran a brick factory and, above all, real estate business in Cologne. Her grandfather Johann Wahlen (1792–1866) founded the Cologne suburb of Ehrenfeld .

She was a cousin of Emma Weyer, since 1901 Konrad Adenauer's first wife . On April 20, 1903, she married the social scientist and social politician Benedikt Schmittmann in Cologne , who died in 1939 after being mistreated by the SS in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . The couple remained childless.

Life

Ella Schmittmann, who, together with her husband, was observed by the secret special office “to defend against separatists”, continued the work of her husband Benedikt Schmittmann, who was considered the center of Rhenish federalism , after his murder. Together with Adolf Süsterhenn she was active in the Abendland-Kreis after 1945. In 1945 she became a board member of the Federation of German Federalists , which was officially founded in 1947 and which u. a. as founding members Heinrich von Brentano (CDU, Hessen), Heinrich Hellwege (DP, Lower Saxony), Anton Pfeiffer (CSU, Bavaria), Wilhelm Hoegner (SPD, Bavaria), Joseph Baumgartner (BP, Bavaria) and Adolf Süsterhenn (CDU, Rhineland Palatinate) belonged to. She was a sought-after writer in federal magazines.

In 1949 Ella Schmittmann became president of the Catholic Europe League . In 1955 she was invested in the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in Cologne .

In 1953, based on her husband's will from 1935, Helene Schmittmann built the private student dormitory Schmittmann-Kolleg and its sponsoring association Kreuz-Kolleg Benedikt-Schmittmann-Haus e.V. on the war-torn property of her former villa in Cologne's southern part of the city . V. In 1969 the charitable Benedikt and Helene Schmittmann-Wahlen-Stiftung was founded. a. awards grants to students based on social and performance-related criteria.

Ella Schmittmann died in 1970 at the age of 90 in her Cologne apartment at Sachsenring 51, a few houses away from the Schmittmann College .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 2297 of December 31, 1970, Cologne Old Town registry office. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Rheinische Lebensbilder, Volume 10 , Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde, Rheinland-Verlag 1985, page 200
  3. ↑ a b c Peter Mensing: Adenauer, Volume 10 , Siedler 2009, page 574
  4. ↑ Martin Schlemmer: Rhineland State Movements in the Prussian Rhine Province after the First World War: Groups, Motives, Mentalities , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar 2007, page 187
  5. ↑ Habbo Knoch: The Heritage of the Province: Homeland Culture and History Politics after 1945 , Wallstein Verlag 2001, page 90
  6. ↑ Vanessa Conze: Das Europa der Deutschen: Ideas of Europe in Germany between imperial tradition and western orientation (1920–1970) , Oldenbourg Verlag 2005, page 115
  7. ↑ Jürgen Klöckler: Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien: France and the discussion about restructuring in southwest Germany 1945–1947 , Oldenbourg Verlag 1998, page 102
  8. ↑ Heiner Timmermann: Subsidiarity and Federalism in the European Union , Duncker & Humblot 1998, page 65
personal data
SURNAME Schmittmann, Ella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmittmann, Helene Wilhelmine Maria Johanna Nepomucena (full name); Wahlen, Wilhelmine Maria Johanna Nepomucena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1970
Place of death Cologne