Carl Heinersdorff

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Karl Heinersdorff

Karl Jeremias Heinersdorff (born March 24, 1836 in Moltheinen , † April 30, 1914 in Elberfeld ) was a German Protestant clergyman and founder of the refuge for women in Wuppertal -Elberfeld, to which the Bergische Diakonie Aprath goes back.

Life

Heinersdorff, son of pastor Christlieb Julius Heinersdorff (1805–1877) and Johanna Rosalie Friedländer (1806–1889), studied Protestant theology at the Palaeopolitanum Regiomonti grammar school in Königsberg, East Prussia - first at the Albertus University in Königsberg , then at Friedrich -Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin ; In 1860 he returned to the Albertina to prepare for exams. On August 7, 1863, Karl Heinersdorff was ordained in Königsberg , where he accepted a position as a preacher and pastor in the court prison. From 1864 he was parish priest in the parishes of Groß Schönau and Lindenau in the Gerdauen district . In 1877 he returned to prison chaplaincy and preached in the court prisons in Dortmund , Hagen and Schwelm . In 1879 he became a prison chaplain in Elberfeld prison.

From his work there, Heinersdorff recognized the need to provide so-called “fallen women” with a home and the possibility of training. With the support of socially committed individuals such as the silk manufacturer couple Heinrich and Maria Schniewind as well as Amalie Göschen (1855–1898 director of the Magdalenen Asylum Boppard in St. Martin ) and the Elberfeld-Barmer Prison Society , the refuge for derailed women was founded in Elberfeld in 1882 , which was designed as a so-called pre - asylum , i.e. as a contact point and transition home directly after release from prison. In 1900 a home for the elderly and women was set up and later a home for drinkers and drug addicts.

With the entry into force of the Prussian Welfare Education Act of July 2, 1900, the new task of caring for children and young people who had been taken away from their families arose. In 1901 Heinersdorff asked to be released from prison chaplaincy and was retired on June 1, 1902. In 1907 he handed over the position of head of department to Dr. Paul Erfurth. In 1908 the “Gut Eigen” estate near Aprath , where the Bergische Diakonie is still located today, was bought, and in 1910 the first reformatory “Haus Eben-Ezer” was inaugurated there.

Fonts

  • Sermon in the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen about Apostlesgesch. Kap, 4, V. 12. Schünemann, Bremen 1876.
  • Reinhold Buchholz 'Travels in West Africa. According to the diaries and letters he left behind. Along with a summary of the deceased's life. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1880. Archive reprint: Fines Mundi, Saarbrücken approx. 2005.
  • The Elberfeld-Barmer pre-asylum to save sunken girls. 2nd, presumably edition Wiemann, Barmen 1888.
  • Words on the coffin of the beloved mother, Mrs. Pastor Heinersdorff, geb. Friedländer ... spoke at her funeral on January 11, 1889 in Bonn. Elberfeld 1889.
  • He gave - I took. Memories from the youth, from the community and institutional offices. Verl. D. Bookshop of the Diakonissenanstalt, Kaiserswerth am Rhein 1909.
  • Dictionary for petrification collectors. Martini & Grüttefien, Elberfeld 1915.

literature

  • Volkmar Wittmütz: 100 years of Bergische Diakonie Aprath. "Give up nothing and nobody" (Karl Heinersdorff) . Series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History 69th Rhineland-Verlag, Cologne & Habelt, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-7927-0688-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bsb-muenchen.de: Official Gazette of the Prussian Government zu Königsberg (1863) , 186 (266). accessed on May 3, 2020
  2. ^ Désirée Schauz: Punishments as moral reform: a history of the welfare of the offender. Zugl. Diss. Univ. Cologne. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58704-3 , p. 297f.
personal data
SURNAME Heinersdorff, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinersdorff, Karl Jeremias (full name); Heinersdorff, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Mołtajny
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1914
Place of death Elberfeld