Emilie Wüstenfeld

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Emilie Wüstenfeld, around 1870

Emilie Wüstenfeld , née Capelle, (born August 17, 1817 in Hanover , † October 2, 1874 in Hamburg ) was a women's rights activist and philanthropist who campaigned for girls' education and female vocational training.

Life

Emilie was the third child of the businessman Wilhelm Eberhard Capelle , whom she lost at the age of five. She grew up with her two older brothers and a younger sister in a large merchant household , which the widow continued with a manager and which enabled the daughters to be involved in household chores . Here, the reason for Emilie's later attitude is assumed that "an extended earning capacity requires the ability to conduct all household chores."

At the age of 27, Emilie married the merchant Julius Wüstenfeld from Hamburg in 1841.

Collective grave plaque for Outstanding Women , Althamburg Memorial Cemetery

In 1846 Emilie Wüstenfeld founded an ecumenical women's association, which was called “Women's Association for the Promotion of Free Christian Communities and Human Purposes”. On January 1st, 1850, Karl Friedrich Fröbel and Emilie Wüstenfeld founded the “ University for Women ” in Hamburg, the first institution of its kind in Germany .

On November 3, 1866, on the initiative of Emilie Wüstenfeld, the "Paulsen-Stift", a school for the poor, was inaugurated. On February 18, 1867 she founded the “Association for the Promotion of Female Employment”. On their initiative, the “ vocational school for girls ” opened on May 1st of the same year .

Honors

In the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery , Emilie Wüstenfeld is commemorated on the collective grave of Outstanding Women (together with Caroline Perthes and Johanna Margaretha Sieveking ).

The Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium in Hamburg has been named after her since 1923 .

literature

  • Ernst Christian Schütt: Die Chronik Hamburgs , Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1991, ISBN 3-61100194-5
  • Georg Weigelt: Christian and humane human love. In memory of Mrs. Emilie Wüstenfeld. O. Meissner, Hamburg 1875
  • Marie Kortmann: Emilie Wüstenfeld . A Hamburg citizen. G. Westermann, Hamburg, 1927. (The author is the daughter of Emilie Wüstenfeld's sister.)

Web links

  • Biography , according to Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium Hamburg
  • Rita Bake: Emilie Wüstenfeld. In: Database of women's biographies in Hamburg. School and Vocational Training Authority, accessed October 28, 2019 .

Remarks

  1. ^ A b Michael Bergeest: Emilie Wüstenfeld (1817–1874) , in ders .: Education between Commerz and Emancipation. Adult education in the Hamburg region of the 18th and 19th centuries (= international university publications ), also dissertation 1995 at the University of Bamberg, Münster; New York: Waxmann, 1995, ISBN 978-3-89325-313-5 and ISBN 3-89325-313-0 , pp. 335f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ When the association was founded, the name was "Women's Association for the Support of German Catholics", founded by Bertha Traun .
  3. ↑ The women's rights activist Charlotte Paulsen was the namesake of the "Paulsen-Stift".
personal data
SURNAME Desert field, Emilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marie Emilie Capelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1874
Place of death Hamburg