Emilie von Soden

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Emilie Anne Auguste Josephine von Soden , born in Rome (born November 8, 1835 in Rottenburg am Neckar , † September 30, 1913 in Stuttgart ) was a German baroness and prominent figure in the charitable life of the city of Stuttgart.

Life

Emilie von Rom was born in November 1835 as the eldest daughter of the pharmacist Ulrich Mathias Maurus von Rom (1804–1839), who had been running the hospital pharmacy in Rottenburg am Neckar since 1829. Her mother Albertine von Rom, née Steinhäuser, sold the pharmacy after the unexpectedly early death of her husband and moved with her three small children to Ehingen (Danube) in August 1839 , where her father Augustin Steinhäuser worked as senior bailiff. Emilie von Rome grew up there and, because of her grandfather's position and political activities, came into contact with politicians and other high-ranking social figures. On May 26, 1855, she married the nine years older Royal Württemberg Chamberlain , Real Privy Councilor and later President of the Administrative Court in Stuttgart, Alfred Karl August Freiherr von Soden-Fraunhofen (1826-1894).

The couple lived in Stuttgart. Emilie von Soden volunteered in the areas of education and charity, as it was the tradition of the Catholic noble house von Soden. Previously already deputy chairwoman, in 1868 she became, like her mother-in-law Helene von Soden (1805-1865), chairwoman of the charitable "Vinzenz-Elisabethen-Verein". She held this office until her death in 1913. Under her leadership, the association founded a “rent savings bank”, for which the benevolent Queen Olga also campaigned. During the war of 1870/1871, von Soden and the association set up a barrack to care for the wounded. The association also provided the soldiers in the field with prayer books and reading material. At the same time, she headed the girls' protection association in Stuttgart.

In 1894 she lost her husband. She died 19 years later in the autumn of 1913 at the age of 77 in Stuttgart and was buried there.

Honors

In 1872 she was awarded the Order of Olga for her great dedication to caring for the wounded soldiers . In March 1900 she was honored with the papal cross of honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice .

family

Her son, born in 1856, General Franz von Soden (1856–1945) was married to the politician Amélie von Soden (1869–1953). Her great-grandson Meinrad Freiherr von Ow bequeathed large parts of the family estate to the Baden-Württemberg State Archives .

literature

  • Franz Stetter: Men and women of Caritas in Baden-Württemberg in the 19th century. Kepplerhaus, Stuttgart 1928, p. 124.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State bibliography of Baden-Württemberg. In: statistik.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved January 11, 2019 .
  2. ^ Wankmüller, A .: The pharmacists born between 1801 and 1900 in the Black Forest district of the Kingdom of Württemberg. In: Contributions to the history of pharmacies in Württemberg, Volume XVI, December 1988, Issue 2, p. 48 (PDF)
  3. ↑ a b Emilie von Soden in the biography of General Franz von Soden , Deutsche Biographie , deutsche-biographie.de, accessed on January 11, 2019.
  4. ^ To summarize the Elisabethenverein Kerstin Lutzer: The Badische Frauenverein 1859-1918. Red Cross, Welfare and Women's Issues (= publications of the Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg . Series B: Research. Volume 146). W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-17-017034-1 , p. 339.
  5. ↑ Joachim Köhler: Catholics in Stuttgart and their history , Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 1990, ISBN 3-7966-0646-6 , p. 206.
  6. ↑ Medal awards . In: Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria . 1872, p. 1381 . ( limited preview in Google Book search).


personal data
SURNAME Soden, Emilie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES from Rome, Emilie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baroness and distinctive personality in the charitable life of the city of Stuttgart
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottenburg am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1913
Place of death Stuttgart