Heidi Denzel
Heidi (actually Adelheid) Emma Denzel (born April 4, 1893 in Triensbach , † January 31, 1975 in Korntal ) was a German social worker.
Live and act
Adelheid Emma was the oldest of nine siblings. The father Emil Constantin Denzel was a pastor. The mother was responsible for the upbringing of the children and the parish household and supported her husband in the church work. Heidi Denzel visited after the elementary school , the Higher Protestant girls' school in Stuttgart. She then worked as a private tutor in France and England. When she returned to her parents' house, she supported her mother in the household and in bringing up her younger siblings. She was also involved in the virgin association . In 1909 she went to Berlin and attended the first course for social work of the Kappelnverein, the later social women's school of the Inner Mission . She then moved to Stuttgart and took on the position of general secretary of the Friends of Young Girls Association - today the Association for International Youth Work (vij).
She played a key role in the development and expansion of the station mission. From 1919 to 1948 she was the managing director of the women's department of the Evangelical People's Association in Württemberg, from which the Evangelical Women's Aid later emerged. At the age of 64, Denzel, who lived with her friend Meta Diestel , withdrew from active professional life, but continued to be involved in the Evangelical House and Country Sisterhood that she set up in Korntal .
Honors
- Guard badge
- Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
Works (selection)
- International Association of Friends of Young Girls and Station Mission, in: Eugenie von Soden (Ed.): Position and tasks of women in law and in society, Stuttgart 1914, pp. 122–127
- Religious and social confessions of young people, Stuttgart 1920
- Memories of life, Stuttgart o. J.
literature
- Manfred Berger : Who was ... Heidi Denzel in: Sozialmagazin 2000 / H. 12, pp. 6-8
- Jutta Fröhlich: The picture of a person: Heidi Denzel in: Sozialpädagogik 1967 / H. 6, pp. 259–264
- Peter Reinicke : Heidi Denzel in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work. Freiburg / Brsg. 1998, p. 137
Web links
- Project. Mitmenschen - Online exhibition on the history of Diakonie in Württemberg , with photo, p. 4
- Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinicke (1998, p. 137) incorrectly states Stuttgart as the place of death
- ^ Association for International Youth Work e. V. (vij) Landesverein Württemberg pdf
- ↑ cf. Berger 2000, p. 8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Denzel, Heidi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heidi; Denzel, Emma; Denzel, Adelheid (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social worker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Triensbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1975 |
| Place of death | Korntal |