Lucy Lindhorn

Lucy Lindhorn (* 1850 ; † March 8, 1919 in Bremen ) was a German social worker and from 1893 to 1917 the first female chairwoman of the Women's Employment Association in Bremen.

biography

In 1867 the association for the expansion of the female work area was established (women's employment association). Lindhorn was immediately on the board of the association. She acquired her pedagogical skills at the sewing school of the Women's Employment Association established in 1867, which she directed from 1870. In 1869 she represented the association at the first general assembly of the Association of German Women's Education and Employment Associations in Berlin . Since 1870 she has been leading the association's nanny courses alongside Doris Focke and Henny Sattler .

From 1893 Lindhorn led the women's employment association together with the pedagogue Heinrich Otto Reddersen . In 1895 women like Lucy Lindhorn, Emilie Bendel , Felicie Gildemeister, Ottilie Hoffmann , Doris Focke were involved in the transformation of the association into an all-women association. It was renamed the Women's Employment and Training Association (FEAV) and the association merged with similar groups. Lindhorn took over the sole chairmanship of the association until 1917, in a purely female board. A rapid development of the club could now be noted.

From 1893 to 1898 the association had its headquarters in Bremen's old town, Am Geeren . In 1898 the first own club house of the FEAV was opened in Bremen-Mitte in the Pelzerstraße. Recreational evenings for women in business and industry were under the direction of the Hoffmanns. The Bendel cooking school was affiliated with the women's trade association in 1897. Since 1898 the business school with the subdivisions of the Bremen kitchen, housekeepers, washerwomen and tillerwomen were still in the clubhouse. From 1898 gymnastics courses, a training school in foreign languages ​​and commercial correspondence as well as courses in arts and crafts drawing and handicrafts were offered. An employment agency was added in 1896, a seminar for home economics teachers in 1904 and the information center for voluntary aid work in 1907. In 1909, Bendel and Agnes Matthes became heads of the newly founded FEAV women's school in a house newly bought in 1905 on Pelzerstraße. In 1913 the seminar for needlework teachers was established.

A house on Ansgarikirchhof was bought through a gift from Margarete Hachez and donations . The Josephinenheim had been here since 1903 . It took in pensioners as well as schoolgirls and it was accommodation for women traveling through. The first “women's hotel” existed until 1934.

The decline in membership and the fluctuating number of participants led to financial problems for the association since 1903. The training of nurses was closed in 1905, the arts and crafts department in 1909 and the men's lunch table in 1910. The First World War had far-reaching consequences for the FEAV. Social welfare matters had priority and so the women's service school was opened in 1917 .

In 1917, after the association's 50th anniversary, Lindhorn ended her term of office. She headed the commercial training school for another year.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Edith Laudowicz : Lindhorn, Lucy (lucie) . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .