Luise Fogt

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Luise Fogt (born May 5, 1846 in Munich ; † May 12, 1921 ibid), girl protector, played a key role in founding the Marian Girls' Protection Association.

Live and act

Her father was royal. Bavarian Colonel . She received the usual school education for girls of her class; Luise Fogt was particularly encouraged in the aesthetic area . From a very young age, she mastered several languages, both written and spoken: Latin, Greek, Spanish, Italian, French and English. Since the mother died very early, the daughter ran the household for the father and took care of the younger brother's upbringing. After the death of her father, she took on a job as a private tutor in a large family of a politician in the Palatinate . After four years, Luise Fogt fell so seriously ill that she had to give up her job. After her recovery, she volunteered in the Marian Girls 'Protection Association (today: IN VIVA Catholic Girls' Social Work ), for which she worked for 26 years. In this regard, she worked closely with Christiane von Preysing , the association's president, Marie Freiin von Hohenhausen and Ellen Ammann . The women named founded a committee to found a girls' protection association, which was followed by the constituent meeting in August 1895. The seat of the association became the Bavarian capital. where in 1897 a placement office was opened. Parents visited this to get advice and information for their daughters. The office was visited by an average of 16 to 18 people every day; Approx. 1,000 job offers were compared to 800 placements. Luise Fogt was appointed managing director of the Munich Girls' Protection Association as well as the Bavarian State Committee. Branch association of the German National Committee for the international fight against trafficking in girls . One of her most important tasks was the publication of 30,000 copies of the “Führer Brochure”, which contained addresses and recommendations for all traveling and job-seeking Catholic girls.

Again and again, Luise Fogt went public with publications and lectures on the trafficking and protection of girls. For example, on the fourth Carita Day in Augsburg in 1899, as the first woman in Germany to attend a Catholic congress, she gave a comprehensive lecture on the subject of trafficking and protection of girls. In her publications, she called on women in particular to participate directly and indirectly:

To fight the girl trafficking, we need all well-meaning women of all classes, and we need first of all their tongue-tied skills ... The most important and indispensable participation of every respectable woman in the fight against the girl trafficking is that through her example, through her influence on husbands, fathers, Sons and brothers strive to raise the moral standard of society .

Luise Fogt was a Terziarin in the Franciscan Third Order . For this, she recruited employees for the work in nursing, in which she stated:

The Third Order is the most dedicated power to provide Germany with the necessary nurses, not only in the small villages, but also wherever the forces of the merciful sisters are available - because that is how the Niederbronn and Mallersdorfer sisters are called in many areas, etc. - not sufficient to satisfy the ever increasing demands .

Marianne Neboisa characterized the girl protector as follows:

Luise Fogt was a versatile and capable woman whose actions were strongly motivated by religion; Selflessness was the most conspicuous feature of her, which by its nature strived for inconspicuousness and secrecy .

literature

  • Leader: Marian Girls' Protection Association. Regional association for Bavaria, affiliated to the International Catholic Association for the Protection of Girls, Centralstelle Freiburg id Schweiz, OO 1897, 4th edition 1904, 8th edition 1912
  • The Marian Girl Protection in Bavaria, in: Charitas, 4th century. 1899, pp. 265-269.
  • Open letter, in: Altöttinger St. Franziskusblatt, 1st cent. 1900, pp. 211-214.
  • Trafficking in girls, in: Monika. Journal for Catholic mothers and housewives, 27th year 1905, pp. 111-210.
  • Twenty years of Marian girls' protection in Bavaria, in: Bayerische Charitas-Blätter, 14th century. 1915, pp. 122-124.

swell

  • Festschrift Catholic Protection of Girls 1895–1955, n.d., n.d.
  • Gabriele Kranstedt: Migration and Mobility as Reflected in the Work of the Association of Catholic Girls' Protection Associations 1895–1945. A contribution to the history of the Catholic women's movement, Freiburg / Breisgau 2003, pp. 613–614.
  • Marianne Neboisa: Ellen Ammann b. Sundström 1870-1932. Documentation and interpretation of a diaconal women's life, St. Ottilien 1992, pp. 143–145.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.invia.caritas.de
  2. ↑ cf. Festschrift Catholic Protection of Girls 1895–1955, undated, p. 19
  3. ^ Fogt 1905, p. 210
  4. ^ Fogt 1900, 213 f
  5. ↑ Neboisa 1992, p. 145
personal data
SURNAME Fogt, Luise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social worker
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1921
Place of death Munich