Emy Gordon

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Emy Gordon as a widow (between 1902 and 1909)

Emy Gordon , actually Emilie Caroline Albertine Gordon, b. Freiin von Beulwitz (born March 6, 1841 in Cannstatt ; † February 2, 1909 in Würzburg ), was a German author, translator and functionary of the Catholic women's movement.

Life

Emilie Gordon, b. Freiin von Beulwitz, with her three oldest children in front of Ellon Castle, around 1871.

Emilie came from the von Beulwitz family . She was the daughter of the (until 1867) Protestant landowner in Cannstatt Hartmund von Beulwitz (1814–1871) and his Catholic wife Nanette, born. Riedlinger (1808-1869). On April 10, 1841, she was baptized a Catholic at home. Her godparents included Major von Brandenstein and the court pianist Emilie Leibnitz (1817–1894), whose first names she used instead of her original (Karoline Albertine Anna) . Since she was a teenager , she suffered from a foot condition that restricted her ability to move.

During the revolution of 1848 , her father, meanwhile the brewery owner in Rottenburg , was the deputy commander of the vigilante group in Rottenburg and deputy chairman of the Rottenburger Volksverein . Before he was threatened with arrest after September 1848, he fled to the USA and Great Britain, but in 1850 he voluntarily presented himself to the investigative court at Hohenasperg fortress . In the subsequent high treason trial against Gottlieb Rau and others, the largest high treason trial in Württemberg legal history , which began on January 20, 1851 in Rottenburg, von Beulwitz was acquitted for lack of evidence. An application to emigrate to Scotland had been refused and the family stayed in Rottenburg.

Around 1860 Emilie met the British ambassador to the Württemberg court, George Gordon , in Stuttgart . This came from the on Ellon Castle north of Aberdeen -based branch Gordon of Ellon of clans Gordon . Since 1843 he was married to the Brazilian Rosa Justina Young (1817-1891), the daughter of a British businessman, and had three children with her.

From 1865 on, Emilie von Beulwitz gave birth to a daughter Georgina on June 4, 1866 in Stuttgart († September 26, 1958 in Nordhorn ). She was entered in the baptismal register as the daughter of a British captain John Smith Branka and Gordon as godfather. The entry was later corrected. Georgina married the medical officer in 1894, most recently senior physician- general , Wilhelm Niehues (1867–1938). The second child, Robert, was born on May 27, 1869, the third, Richard Wolf, on June 10, 1870. In the second half of the 1860s, Emilie lived as a dramatic artist on Gutenbergstrasse in Stuttgart. She signed the obituary notice for her mother in 1869 as E. v. Branka, b. Freiin v. Beulwitz .

In 1871 the family moved to Scotland. George Gordon converted to the Catholic Church and married Emy von Beulwitz ecclesiastically in Manchester in 1871 after Catholic canon lawyers had told him that his first marriage was null and void under canon law . At the same time he left the diplomatic service. The following year, Louise Ignace Therese Julie Gordon had their fourth child. When George Gordon took over the heir as Laird of Ellon with 11,648 acres (over 4,700 hectares ) after the death of his father in 1873 and moved to Ellon with Emy as his wife, his first wife, who was separated from him but never divorced, sued for establishment the continuation of the marriage and its resulting claims in a Scottish court. The court agreed. The case caused quite a stir. Ellon's financial and administrative problems, which discreetly rewrote a 1958 story of Ellons as family difficulties , led in 1881 to a submission by the trustees still appointed by his father to the British Parliament and to the Ellon Trust Estates Act , which enabled land sales to repay debt. The trust made regular payments to Gordon and later to Emy as a widow.

George and Emy Gordon then left Great Britain. The couple first moved to Bruges ; from September 1884 they lived permanently in Würzburg. Only after the death of Rosa Justina did they enter into a civil marriage in Maastricht in 1892 .

Emy Gordon worked as a writer and translator and taught painting to men and women . Her most successful book was a guide, The Duties of a Maid , or: The ABC of the Household , which first appeared in 1894 and had 10 editions by 1911. She edited The Practical Housewife , a supplement to the Catholic regional newspaper Fränkisches Volksblatt and published articles in Catholic magazines such as Die christliche Frau and Monika. Magazine for Catholic mothers and housewives .

After her husband's death in 1902, she became involved in numerous Catholic charitable organizations. In 1903, in an article in the Kölnische Volkszeitung , she suggested the establishment of what is now known as the Catholic German Women's Association . It was the first Catholic church association that was not under the direction of a clergyman, but of women. On April 15, 1904, she founded the Catholic Women's Association in Würzburg . From June 12 to 18, 1904, she took part in the International Women's Congress in Berlin . She published her report as a hint for the Catholic women's movement . At the 54th Katholikentag , at that time a pure delegates' meeting, which took place in Würzburg in 1907, Baroness von Gordon was the first woman ever to speak. She was one of the founders of the Union of Catholic Associations of Working Women and Girls . She understood this as a specialist department of the Catholic workers' associations and thus took a position in the trade union dispute . In Würzburg, she founded courses for the training of Catholic kindergarten teachers with the girls' protection association (today IN VIA Catholic Girls and Women’s Social Service ). In 1904, the Catholic Women's Association decided to build a day nursery and children's institution. This infant and children's home, which was built in 1908 with the support of Dompfarrer Braun, later became the children's clinic on Mönchberg . Since 1908, Gordon was also the chairwoman of the legal protection office for girls and young women in Würzburg, which is supported by the non-denominational women's education association Frauenheil .

Part of the estate is in the Ida-Seele archive in Dillingen an der Donau .

memory

The Gordon family grave in the main cemetery in Würzburg has been preserved to the present day and is a place of remembrance for Emy Gordon.

A plaque commemorates her in Würzburg's Martinstrasse .

Publications

  • All kinds of painting processes. Home art work guide for beginners. Leipzig: Haberland 1888, 2nd edition 1892.
  • New fairy tales: for children young and old. Donauwörth: Auer 1889.
  • (Transl.) Henry Edward Manning : Religio viatoris. The four cornerstones of my faith. Würzburg: Woerl 1889.
  • Loose leaves from fairy tale binder. 1890.
  • Practical guide for women and girls from better classes looking for a job. Leipzig 1893.
  • The duties of a maid, or: the ABC of the household. Donauwörth: Auer 1894 (10 editions until 1911)
  • Practical instruction on oil painting in its various types for beginners and amateurs. Leipzig: Haberland 1899
  • The Catholic kindergarten teacher in school and at home. Stuttgart and Vienna: Roth 1902.
  • Historical-critical review of the negotiations at the International Women's Congress in Berlin from 12-18 June 1904: Pointers for the Catholic women's movement. Frankfurt 1905.

literature

  • Gordon, Frau Emy , in: Sophie Pataky (Ed.): Lexicon of German women of the pen. A compilation of the works by female authors that have appeared since 1840, along with the biographies of the living and a list of pseudonyms. Berlin: Carl Pataky 1898, p. 272 ​​f. ( Full text )
  • † Emy Gordon , in: Die christliche Frau ZDB -ID 213936-4 7 (1908/09), pp. 207-209.
  • Hildegund Braun: Emy Gordon. Your life and your work for the women's movement. Würzburg: Kath. Frauenbund o. J.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ It is unclear whether he was in the Württemberg military service; in any case (against Braun p. 13) he is to be distinguished from the Württemberg Major General Franz Wilhelm Ludwig von Beulwitz (1812–1906)
  2. ↑ On her see Emilie Leibnitz , accessed on January 20, 2018.
  3. ^ Obituary (Lit.), p. 207; the British envoy Robert Morier mocked her for this in 1874 in a letter to William Arthur White as a lady with a wooden leg (Henry Sutherland Edwards: Sir William White, KCB, KCMG, for six years ambassador at Constantinople: his life and correspondence. ) London : Murray 1902, p. 75.
  4. ↑ Dieter Manz: Another Rottenburger 48er: Hartmund v. Beulwitz. In: Rottenburger Miniatures. Volume 3, Rottenburg am Neckar 2000, pp. 237-242.
  5. ^ Entry in the Landesbibliographie BW online
  6. ^ Revolution in the Southwest. Sites of the democracy movement 1848/49 in Baden-Württemberg. Edited by the working group of full-time archivists in the Baden-Württemberg Association of Cities, 2nd edition, Karlsruhe 1998, ISBN 3-88190-219-8 , p. 527.
  7. ↑ The circumstances are unclear; the literature says at the court ball (Braun (Lit.) p. 16), which is rather unlikely, or that Emilie von Beulwitz was governess in the Gordon household (Manfred Berger: Women in the history of the kindergarten: Emy Gordon of Ellon )
  8. ↑ She did not (yet) marry him at the age of 22 and was not married to him for 37 years, as can be read in obituaries (see Braun (Lit), p. 20) - religiously it was 31 years, civil only 10 .
  9. ↑ German Gender Book Volume 173 (1976), p. 634; wrong place of birth Bruges (Belgium)
  10. ↑ legitimized by matrimonium subsequens , Braun (lit.), p. 22
  11. ^ Based on the address book 1867, quoted in Braun (Lit.), p. 16.
  12. ↑ Figure in Braun (Lit.), p. 14.
  13. ^ The Gordon Marriage Case , in Dundee Courier (Dundee, Scotland), Tuesday August 12, 1873; P. 6; Issue 6253.
  14. ^ John Bateman: The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison 1878, p. 170
  15. ^ The Law Journal 8 (1873), p. 375
  16. ↑ See An Easy Way of Divorce , in The New York Times of May 3, 1875 ( digitized version )
  17. ↑ James Godsman: A History of the Burgh and Parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire. W. & W. Lindsay 1958, p. 67
  18. ↑ Private acts. 22nd Parliament2nd Session, 44/45 Victoria 1881. London 1881, p. 63
  19. ↑ Braun (lit.), p. 19.
  20. ↑ BS Huwelijk met George John Robert Gordon , accessed December 9, 2017.
  21. ^ Obituary (lit.), p. 209.
  22. ↑ Braun (lit.), p. 54.
  23. ↑ Braun (lit.), p. 76.
  24. ↑ See Braun (Lit.), p. 67 f.
  25. ↑ Klaus Witt City: church and state in the 20th century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 455–458: The Church Development under Bishop Ferdinand Schlör (1898–1924). P. 456.
  26. ↑ 100 years ago Emy Gordon died in Würzburg. , Article in the Main-Post dated February 5, 2009, accessed on January 20, 2018.
  27. ↑ estate in the central estate database ; the personal estate was destroyed in the bombing raid on Würzburg on March 16, 1945 (Baum (lit.), p. 85).
  28. ↑ 100 years ago Emy Gordon died in Würzburg. , Article in the Main-Post dated February 5, 2009, accessed on January 20, 2018.
  29. ↑ Figure in the Würzburg Wiki , accessed on January 20, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Emy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beulwitz, Emilie Caroline Albertine Freiin von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, translator, functionary of the Catholic women's movement
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1909
Place of death Wurzburg