Emmy Danckwerts

Emmy Danckwerts (born February 27, 1812 in Plate ; † April 12, 1865 in Hanover ) was a German deaconess and, as superior, was the first director of the Henriettenstift in Hanover.

Life

Emmy Danckwerts comes from a pastor family. Her father Johann Alexander Danckwerts (* 1777 in Coasts ; † 1831 in Müden an der Aller ) was pastor at St. Marien Church in Plate from 1807 to 1821 at the time of her birth . Her two years younger brother Hermann Christian Friedrich (1814–1881) also became a pastor and was later superintendent in Börry / Calenberg and then at St. Albani in Göttingen . Her uncles are Justus Friedrich Danckwerts and Johann Viktor Danckwerts (1799–1869), who exercised the pastoral office after his brother from 1827 until his death in Plate.

On October 6, 1848, after a pietistic conversion experience and a disappointed love affair, Emmy Danckwerts joined the Bethanien Diakonissenanstalt , the mother house of the deaconesses in Berlin . Under the direction of the local hospital pharmacist (and later writer) Theodor Fontane , she trained as a pharmacist. On October 6, 1849 Danckwerts was consecrated as a deaconess .

In 1855 Emmy Danckwerts was given the management of the hospital in Erdmannsdorf in Silesia .

After the Kingdom of Hanover , the Queen Mary , the Diakonissenanstalt on July 1, 1859 Henriettenstift was founded in Hanover, was Emmy Danckwerts first superior of the pin . In close cooperation with Abbot Gerhard Uhlhorn , Danckwerts developed the first regulations and rules for running the institution. In 1863 the building on (today's) Marienstrasse was ready to move into.

Under the leadership of Emmy Danckwerts, the foundation's fields of work were steadily expanded in the following years: the sisters organized community diaconia in the suburbs and villages around Hanover with child and infant work, home care for women who have recently given birth and for the elderly and sick.

Emmy Danckwerts suffered from severe ailments at times, but was in charge of the monastery until her death in 1865. Her successor was the deaconess Anna Forcke .

Honors

In 2002 a section of Schwemannstraße in the Hanover district of Kirchrode was renamed Emmy-Danckwerts-Straße .

literature

New paths, old goals - 125 years of the Henrietten Foundation , Festschrift , Hanover 1985
The Henriettenstift - Evangelical Lutheran Deaconess Mother House Hanover 1860–1935 , Hanover, 1935
Jens Schmidt-Clausen: DANCKWERTS, Emmy. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 90f. u.ö .; partly online via Google books
Jens Schmidt-Clausen: Danckwerts, Emmy. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 122.
Stefanie Rieke: Emmy Danckwert's biography online as a PDF document , on the 60th birthday of Matron Erika Krause, Hanover 1994
Andreas Sonnenburg: Emmy Danckwerts (with a short biography of the sculptor Karlheinz Oswald ), online as a PDF document (undated). Information board on one of the three busts in the atrium of the DIAKOVERE Henriettenstift
Hans-Cord Sarnighausen: Emmy Danckwerts (1812–1865), Theodor Fontane and the Henriettenstift in Hanover. In: Heimatkalender Uelzen 2014, pp. 89–93; also in: Archive for Family History Research, Issue 4/2013, pp. 127–131.

Web links

Barbara Fleischer: Emmy Danckwerts. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
Joachim Döring: Women's emancipation in society and diakonia , online at diakonische-dienste-hannover.de on February 21, 2012, last accessed on April 21, 2012
Michael Grau ( epd ): Henriettenstiftung honors its first superior Emmy Danckwerts on her 200th birthday / celebration in women's hands , on domradio.de on February 26, 2012, last accessed on March 2, 2015.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Jens Schmidt-Clausen: Danckwerts, Emmy (see literature)
^ Alfred Kelletat: Emmy Danckwerts from Plate (1812-1865), in the 12th annual edition of the local history working group Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lüchow 1988, p. 26ff.
↑ Wendland-Lexikon , Volume 1, Lüchow 2000, p. 136.
^ Alfred Kelletat: Emmy Danckwerts from Plate (1812–1865), in the 12th annual edition of the Lüchow-Dannenberg Local History Working Group, Lüchow 1988, p. 26.

personal data
SURNAME	Danckwerts, Emmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German deaconess and, as superior, first director of the Henrietten Foundation in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH	Plate (today: Lüchow (Wendland) )
DATE OF DEATH	April 12, 1865
Place of death	Hanover

[SLH-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Jens Schmidt-Clausen: Danckwerts, Emmy (see literature)

[2] Alfred Kelletat: Emmy Danckwerts from Plate (1812-1865), in the 12th annual edition of the local history working group Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lüchow 1988, p. 26ff.

[3] Wendland-Lexikon , Volume 1, Lüchow 2000, p. 136.

[4] Alfred Kelletat: Emmy Danckwerts from Plate (1812–1865), in the 12th annual edition of the Lüchow-Dannenberg Local History Working Group, Lüchow 1988, p. 26.