Ida von der Groeben

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Countess Ida von der Groeben (born January 17, 1791 in Marienwerder , † March 4, 1868 in Hoheneck (Ludwigsburg) ) was a German pietist and writer in East Prussia .

Life

Ida was the third daughter of the landlord Hans Jakob von Auerswald and his wife Albertine geb. Countess Dohna-Lauck . In 1811 she married Count Wilhelm von der Groeben, who died two years later in the battle of Großgörschen as premier lieutenant and adjutant in the cuirassier regiment "Count Wrangel" (East Prussian) No. 3 . Ida withdrew to her husband's property in Silesia . She escaped apathy through the "enchanting" personality of Johann Wilhelm Ebel , archdeacon and pastor at the old town church in Königsberg (Prussia) . On a trip with Johann Heinrich Schönherr in 1816 he stopped at the estate. To the delight of her father, Ida returned to Königsberg with Ebel.

revival

As a 22-year-old widow, Ida became one of the main sponsors of the so-called “ Muckerbewbewegung ” in East Prussia , which made “the whole province a madhouse”. Spiritual leaders of the movement were Ebel and Georg Heinrich Diestel , pastors at the Haberberg Trinitatis Church in Königsberg. Swept along by Ebel's fanatical and often ecstatic beliefs, Ida remained his loyal disciple, friend - and patroness, in spite of all hostility.

She wrote:

I am a German woman.
I speak true
and do not be shy.
I love a lot and don't say it.
I am a German woman.

process

In 1833 Ebel and Diestel were sued by the consistory for breach of duty in office. They were accused of "forming sects and spreading a philosophical-technological conviction in disagreement with church teaching". Countess Ida was a witness in the criminal trial conducted by two instances. Despite the fine, she refused to testify. She considered the trial to be illegal and based on slander. With a petition to the ministry in Berlin, she attacked the consistory and its president in the sharpest form: “The consistory actually sided with the slanderer by defending the lie and attacking divine and human rights brought. So it has renounced its high vocation to protect the Holy Office and has not considered that it has thereby stripped itself of its own dignity and of its own as the ordered head of the spiritual office ” .

In the end, Ida's questioning was waived. Ebel and Diestel were dismissed from their public offices in 1839 and 1841. Ida went to Ludwigsburg with Ebel .

criticism

The president of the consistory, the chief president Theodor von Schön , was her brother-in-law. Ida thought his reforms were fundamentally wrong. She called him a man without principles and referred to his vanity and crude selfishness, "so that he used to be arrogant and put the stamp of gross presumption and reckless carelessness on his being and behavior" . His preference for the English economic system was so strong "that he had to translate all internal and external life into English and maneuver it into English" .

Works

  • A look at the former position of the senior presidents Auerswald and Schön . Stuttgart 1844
  • The love of truth: hints . Stuttgart 1850
  • Science and Bible . Stuttgart 1856
  • Morning watch . Poems. Basel 1878

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang von der Groeben : Family tables of the counts and gentlemen v. der Groeben 1140–1993 . Düsseldorf 1994
  2. ↑ Dora Eleonore Behrend : Castles of the East . 1934
  3. ↑ a b family archive of the Groeben
personal data
SURNAME Groeben, Ida from the
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Auerswald, Ida Countess of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pietist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienwerder
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1868
Place of death Hoheneck (Ludwigsburg)