Julia Lanz

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Julia Lanz (* October 23, 1843 as Julia Faul in Mannheim ; † December 17, 1926 there ) was a patron , functionary of the Baden Women's Association and donor of auxiliary facilities. In 1910 she was the first woman to be granted honorary citizenship of the city of Mannheim.

Life

Julia Lanz was from Mannheim. Born on October 23, 1843 in the town on the Rhine and Neckar, she married the founder and owner of the agricultural machinery factory of the same name, Heinrich Lanz , in 1865 . The entrepreneur's wife and mother of four children got involved in charitable causes, be it for unemployed women, for the promotion of health care or gynecology.

She had already joined the Badischer Frauenverein at the age of 17 , in 1883 she was appointed to the board and was later appointed president of the Mannheim branch. Julia Lanz was also on the board of the women's association founded in 1887 to maintain the asylum for young women, the Luisenheim. In 1899 the couple established the Heinrich and Julia Lanz Foundation for health promotion, which still exists today.

In 1905 her husband died and the sole head of the company empire, which contemporaries named the King of Mannheim. Together with her children, the widow took over responsibility for the company and continued the charitable foundation, expanded it by donating money to the National Theater, and in 1910 donated one million marks for the city's commercial college, now the University of Mannheim . Julia Lanz died on December 17, 1926 at the age of eighty-three.

Honors

literature

  • Barbara Becker: We want to do good. Portrait Julia Lanz. In: The highest award in the city. 42 Mannheim honorary citizens in portrait ed. by Ulrich Nieß et al .. Small writings of the Mannheim City Archives No. 18, Mannheim 2002, pp. 81–85.
  • Hermann Schäfer: Lanz, Heinrich in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 13 (1982), pp. 622-624.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ferdinand Werner: Mannheimer Villen: Architecture and living culture in the squares and the Oststadt edition 6 of contributions to the Mannheim architecture and building history. Wernersche 2009, ISBN 3-884-6228-97 , p. 55.
personal data
SURNAME Lanz, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faul, Julia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Patron, functionary of the Baden Women's Association and founder of auxiliary facilities
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1926
Place of death Mannheim