Eva von Tiele-Winckler

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Eva von Tiele-Winckler - mother Eva
Mother Eva House in Miechowitz
Miechowitz Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Eva von Tiele-Winckler (born October 31, 1866 at Miechowitz Castle , today Bytom -Miechowice , Upper Silesia ; † June 21, 1930 ibid) was a deaconess and one of the first women in a management position at the deaconry . She was widely known under the name "Mother Eva".

Life

Eva von Tiele-Winckler came from a wealthy family, the ennobled industrial family Tiele-Winckler ; her brother was the landowner and district administrator Franz Hubert von Tiele-Winckler . As a result of an early awakening experience, she decided to help people in her Upper Silesian homeland who had fallen into poverty and need as a result of the agricultural and industrial revolutionary upheavals. Against her father's wishes, Eva von Tiele-Winckler trained in nursing at the Bodelschwingh'schen Anstalten in Bethel near Bielefeld in Westphalia. After returning to her Silesian homeland, without the support of her father, she founded her own diaconal facility for the poor and the elderly, the disabled and the non-sedentary, the Friedenshort . She created an evangelical sisterhood in which she exercised the life profession of deaconess as headmistress and at the same time as sister among sisters “bound and yet free”. More than 1000 women joined their deaconess community.

Eva von Tiele-Winckler saw an important area of ​​responsibility in creating a home for homeless children. Contrary to the still prevailing tradition of placing children in need in large institutions such as rescue, correctional or orphanages as well as in family care, she founded more than 40 “children's homes” scattered across villages and towns. Here abandoned children found a home in community-based, manageable, family-like communities led by a sister. Eva von Tiele-Winckler and her co-sisters trusted in the security-giving power of these women-designed communities, to which they called "home" and not "family". They were convinced that the essentials in upbringing "happen" and thus elude scientific explanation and human representation. What they saw as essential, namely helping to shape the image of God in the child, was not feasible, neither through educational activities nor through caring interventions. It remains a secret, subject to the divine “salvation mercy”. Fundamental to this, however, was the sisters' commitment to life: for the children “with the little sore souls”, work energetically, happily, daring and trusting God, initiate loving and reliable relationships and thus enable the divine work of salvation through responsible human activity. Together with the later Chancellor Georg Michaelis , she also founded, among other things, a welfare home for women released from prison in Langenau (Czernica), for which the manor owner von Klitzing, who was friends with Michaelis, made a property available.

The financial and material foundations of these institutions formed the GmbH Heimat for the homeless, donations of land and buildings, donations in kind and money from groups of friends as well as occasional care allowances from the public sector.

Like numerous personalities from the founding years of the Inner Mission, Eva von Tiele-Winckler was also extensively active as a journalist. She wrote sister letters, religious reflections, biblical interpretations, empirical texts, proverbs, poems and spiritual songs. Unimpressed by academic-theological erudition and scientific biblical criticism, she wanted to contribute as a writing lay theologian to the development of a religious inwardness and at the same time give instructions for a God-pleasing outer life. Their roots in the history of piety are based in medieval mysticism, in pietism and in different currents of the contemporary international awakening movement.

The Deaconess Mother House Friedenshort also includes Tiele-Winckler-Haus GmbH, which maintains several homes for the disabled and residential groups in Berlin .

annotation

Barbara Rohr notes in her dissertation from 2005:

Eva von Tiele-Winckler's contribution to educational work with children also seems to be unknown or forgotten. Neither in general educational nor in socio-educational or educational history literature is she mentioned because of her care and upbringing of abandoned, discarded or orphaned children. For example, within the discussion about the SOS Children's Villages founded by Hermann Gmeiner after World War II. W. did not point out that the originator of this concept of age and gender mixed and fatherless “children's families” led by “mothers” is actually the sister Eva von Tiele-Wlnckler.

However, Manfred Berger had already pointed out in 1991 that in particular ... the family-oriented education required in the home after the Second World War (e.g. Andreas Mehringer's 'Munich orphanage', 'Pestalozzi-Kinderdörfer', 'SOS-Kinderdörfer') ) where were, the diaconate of the 'replacement mother' called for in 'secular form', had 'mother Eve' a brilliant campaigner ... .

Fonts

Remembrance day

June 21 in the Evangelical Name Calendar .

literature

in order of appearance

  • Gertrud Frischmuth : Faith and Life with Eva von Tiele-Winckler . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1938, new edition: Linea, Bad Wildbad 2007 ISBN 978-3-939075-15-8 .
  • Margot Witte: The big risk. Memories of Eva von Tiele-Winckler. Berlin, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1957.
  • Alex Funke : Eva von Tiele-Winckler: "Mother Eva" . Hamburg / Freiburg (Switzerland) 1986.
  • Manfred Berger : Ancilla Domini: Mother Eva and the "Friedenshort" , in: The wide room 1990 / H. 5, pp. 106-108.
  • Manfred Berger: We introduce: Das Friedenshortwerk , in: Our Youth 1991, pp. 213–220.
  • Margret Hahn: youth welfare. The "Heimat für Heimatlose GmbH" ; in: Deaconess Mother House Foundation Friedenshort: 100 Years of Friedenshort. Love makes you see ; Lahr 1996.
  • Paul Toaspern: Eva von Tiele-Winckler: Mother Eva. A life in silence before God Neuhausen 1995.
  • Manfred Berger: Tiele-Winckler, Eva Valeska von , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work , Freiburg / Brsg. 1998, pp. 589-590.
  • Arkadiusz Kuzio-Podrucki: Tiele-Wincklerowie. Arystokracja węgla i stali Bytom 2006 ISBN 83-923733-0-8 (Polish).
    • German: The Tiele-Wincklers. An Upper Silesian coal and steel aristocracy Tarnowskie Góry, Kiel 2007 ISBN 978-83-924291-5-9 .
  • Barbara Rohr: "... throw myself and everything that I was and had into the misery of time". Appreciation of the life's work and personality of Eva von Tiele-Winckler (1866–1930) against the background of different contemporary trends . Dissertation, University of Bremen 2005, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 46-diss000101314 .
  • Walter Thieme: Mother Eva, the praises singer of God's grace: life and work of Sister Eva von Tiele-Winckler . Linea, Bad Wildbad 2007, ISBN 978-3-939075-04-2 .
  • Izabella Wójcik-Kühnel: Upper Silesian Angel of Mercy. Eva von Tiele-Winckler. About the life of mother Evas from Miechowitz . Catalog for the exhibition "To Help the Poor and Suffering: Mother Eva - Her Faith and Life" on the occasion of Eva von Tiele-Winckler's 150th birthday. Cultural Association for Silesia and Moravia, Düsseldorf 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Self-presentation of the Friedenshort Sisterhood; Retrieved November 15, 2009
  2. ↑ Rocking Horse and Tin Soldiers. Childhood and youth in Silesia . Exhibition of the Upper Silesian State Museum , July 8, 2018 - May 19, 2019.
  3. ↑ For the state and the people. A life story . Berlin, Furche 1922, p. 245
  4. ^ Homepage Tiele-Winckler-Haus GmbH with content and locations in Berlin , accessed on January 17, 2012
  5. ↑ Barbara Rohr: "... throw myself and everything that I was and had into the misery of time". Appreciation of the life's work and personality of Eva von Tiele-Winckler (1866–1930) against the background of different contemporary trends . 2005, p. 12
  6. ↑ Berger 1991, p. 215
  7. ^ Eva von Tiele-Winckler in the Ecumenical Saint Lexicon; Retrieved June 21, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Tiele-Winckler, Eva von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mother Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German deaconess, founder of the diaconal organization Friedenshort
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Miechowitz Castle , today Bytom -Miechowice, Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1930
Place of death Miechowitz Castle , today Bytom -Miechowice, Upper Silesia