Emma Horion

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Emma Horion (born September 8, 1889 in Cologne , † May 26, 1982 in Düsseldorf ) was a German representative of Catholic women's welfare in the Christian women's movement . Throughout her life she was involved in the Catholic German Women's Association (KDFB) and campaigned for mothers to recover.

Life

Emma Abeck, daughter of the high school supervisor Friedrich Abeck and the Maria Kinghs, first trained as a teacher for middle and high schools for girls, which she finished in 1909. After graduating, she worked at the municipal girls' secondary school on Oststrasse in Düsseldorf.

Emma Abeck - Kürten married in 1911, Horion married in 1928 - took up her work in the Catholic German Women's Association very early on. He saw his task in promoting social equality for women in the women's movement of the time , in particular through education. As early as 1916, she was a member of the board of the Düsseldorf branch and held the office of first chairwoman from 1923 to 1960. In addition, she became chairwoman of the KDFB in the Rheinisch-Westphalian industrial area around 1925 and a member of the central board of the Cologne KDFB in 1928. Emma Horion was thus significantly involved in the social education work of women due to her managerial functions.

The well-being of mothers was particularly important to her, which is why she took more care of mothers 'recovery and from 1930 onwards she participated in the Catholic Reich Working Group for Mothers' Recovery. In response to the consequences of the First World War and the problems mothers had to struggle with during this period, the first maternal recovery measures were organized under the most difficult conditions as early as the 1920s. After 1918 millions of men were disabled and thus unable to work; many women became family breadwinners. This war and the German inflation from 1914 to 1923 created a hitherto unknown social hardship among war orphans and widows . In 1930 the Catholic working group for mothers 'recovery was founded in the Archdiocese of Cologne, shortly afterwards the Reich working group for mothers' recovery was formed . The Cologne working group had two goals, as Wilhelmine Schumacher-Köhl, first KFD diocesan chairwoman from 1929 to 1941, described it: "To obtain official subsidies for the cures previously financed from own resources" and "... to organize the maternity leave internally so that physical recovery was also associated with mental enrichment and relaxation. ”So for the“ mental ”care,“ women with life experience were recruited and trained who, as holiday managers, dedicated themselves entirely to women […] ”.

During the Third Reich , the National Socialists made it increasingly difficult for her to work in the women's association and to provide mothers with rest. In addition, Emma Horion came into conflict with the Gestapo several times during the Second World War . But despite all hostility, she remained true to her Christian ideals. “She vigorously opposed the National Socialist racial doctrine and Nazi women's policy. At the beginning of the 1940s it fell into the hands of the Gestapo because it sent mass cases to Catholic priests in the field. The rulers forced them to countersign the ban imposed on the Catholic women's organization. "

In the early post-war period she was a member of the board of trustees of the German Mothers' Recovery Association , which Elly Heuss-Knapp founded in 1950. Emma Horion volunteered here for a long time . In 1954 she became a co-founder of the later Düsseldorf ASG-Bildungsforum - at that time still the Catholic Working Group on Mothers ' Education . The highlight of her meritorious work was the founding of a maternal convalescent home in Wipperfürth in 1958 , which is still called the Emma-Horion-Haus today .

Emma Horion was married twice, from 1911 to 1921 to Karl Kürten and from 1928 to 1933 to Johannes Horion , but was widowed in both marriages.

Emma Horion died on May 26, 1982 in Düsseldorf and was buried in the Südfriedhof .

Honor

literature

  • Birgit Sack: Between religious ties and modern society: Catholic women's movement and political culture in the Weimar Republic (1918 / 19–1933) , Waxmann Verlag, Münster, 1998, ISBN 3-89325-593-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emma Abeck widowed Kürten (1889–1982), daughter of the high school supervisor Dr. Friedrich Abeck and the Maria Kinghs , in rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de: Johannes Horion (1876–1933), accessed on August 12, 2015
  2. ^ Gerhard Hirschfeld , Gerd Krumeich and Irina Renz (eds.): Encyclopedia First World War. Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76578-9 , p. 663 ff.
  3. ^ Female city councilors of the Weimar Republic
  4. ^ Rita Süssmuth : Everyday resistance against the Nazi regime , Die Welt, July 20, 1996
personal data
SURNAME Horion, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abeck, Emma; Kürten, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German representative of Catholic women's welfare in the Christian women's movement
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1982
Place of death Dusseldorf