Idamarie Solltmann

Idamarie Solltmann (born September 8, 1889 in Berlin ; † February 19, 1980 in Dinklage ) was a German social worker.

Live and act

She was the daughter of the district judge Rulemann Bernhardi-Grisson and his wife Hedwig, geb. Octopus. She received her first lessons from her parents. From 1896 to 1901 she attended the secondary girls 'school in Potsdam , then the secondary girls' school in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , then the Auguste Viktoria school in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1907 Idamarie Bernhardi-Grisson passed the school leaving certificate at the municipal college in Berlin and then studied new languages and psychology in Geneva , Berlin and Göttingen . On August 5, 1914, she married in Marburg Dr. Kurt Solltmann, who died as a soldier in Belgium just three weeks later. Idamarie Solltmann then interrupted her studies, which she finally completed in 1917 in Göttingen with a doctorate. The subject of her dissertation is: The Rection of Expressions of Fear in French .

After completing her studies, Idamarie Solltmann worked in Berlin for four years in prostitute care and also taught part-time at the social women's school founded and run by Alice Salomon . She was also responsible for the semi-annual special course at the Social Women's School for female workers for training to become welfare workers (January 1, 1920 to June 20, 1920).

From 1921 to 1927 she headed the Guben welfare office , where she worked with Isa Gruner and introduced and expanded the social work concept of family welfare . In 1922 she converted to the Catholic faith, which led her to friendship with the religious philosophers and theologians Romano Guardini , Josef Weiger and Peter Wust , and became involved in the Catholic Women's Association . After Idamarie Solltmann left Guben, she moved to Münster . There she taught at the Catholic welfare school , which was later moved to Gelsenkirchen , the direction of which she was given in 1941.

Idamarie Solltmann was active in many Catholic clubs / organizations, including a. For several years she headed the Catholic Education Center in Münster . She was awarded the papal order Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice . In 1955 she retired.

Works (selection)

• Welfare care as a profession and women, in: Freie Wohlfahrtspflege 1926 / H. 6, pp. 253-259 et al. H. 7, pp. 306-310
• Profession and life fullness, in: Frauenberufe 1927, pp. 87-109
• Should and can ideological forces and convictions be effective in family welfare ?, in: Unsolved questions of welfare care. Publications of the Association of Catholic German Social Service Workers, Cologne 1929, pp. 14–38
• Mother and child in today's social situation, in: Kindergarten 1931, pp. 185–190
• The holy woman Elisabeth, Würzburg 1939
• Elisabeth of Thuringia. Gloria Teutonie, Würzburg 1940
• Homecoming and Reality, Berlin-Tempelhof undated

literature

• Martina Arndts-Haupt (Ed.): Geschichte (n) aus Münster , Münster 2007, pp. 58–59
• Peter Reinicke : Solltmann, Idamarie , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 556f.
• Carmen Matthias: Idamarie Solltmann - A portrait. Life, work and thinking of a forgotten woman of social work and the Catholic women's movement , Regensburg 2000 (unpublished diploma thesis)
• Elisabeth Prégardier and Anne Mohr: Politics as a task. Engagement of Christian women in the Weimar Republic , Essen 1990, p. 493
• Josef Weiger : Dr. Idamarie Solltmann , in: Christian Family 1964 / H. 3, pp. 155-156

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Matthias 2000, p. 5 ff. And Maier 1998, p. 556 f