Luise Jörissen

Luise Jörissen (born July 11, 1897 in Aachen , † November 22, 1987 in Munich ) was a German social worker, founder and director of Catholic social schools in Germany and abroad, director of the regional association of the Catholic welfare association for girls, women and children .

Live and act

Louise (according to the birth certificate with ou) Helene Maria Hubertine was the eldest of four children of the businessman and later member of the Reichstag Franz Jörissen (politician) and his wife Ella, geb. Hay. Luise Jörissen completed her school education in Aachen and Cologne, where she passed her Abitur. She then studied mathematics and natural sciences at the universities of Münster and Munich . In the latter city she got to know Ellen Ammann and her social / charitable work. Subsequently, Luise Jörissen changed her studies and studied a. a. Economics, philosophy, finance and social policy, because at the time these university subjects could be used in a senior position in welfare work. 1920 received his doctorate to Dr. oec. Her dissertation in historical logics was: On the secularization of the old Bavarian prelate monasteries. Your financial reasons and results .

After a brief activity in corporate social work in Munich, Luise Jörissen worked from 1923 to 1925 as a consultant for certain welfare issues of the Diocesan Charity Association in Cologne. From 1925 to 1929, at the request of Ellen Ammann, she headed the charitable women's school in Munich. She expanded her training there by emphasizing the pastoral component. This offered the “seminarians” the opportunity to acquire the Missio canonica as part of their training .

In 1929 she was asked by the Union Catholique Internationale de Service Social to set up and run a Catholic women's social school in Santiago de Chile . After her students were able to take over this, Luise Jörissen returned to Germany in 1933 and was soon asked to found and run a social women's school again, this time in Lima . Luise Jörissen headed the facility until 1942, which she had to leave because of the Peruvian declaration of war on Nazi Germany.

From 1943 she got involved in the Dortmund headquarters of the Catholic Welfare Association for Girls, Women and Children (today: Social Service of Catholic Women ). Three years later she was entrusted with the establishment and management of a regional office in Bavaria for the denominational welfare association. She headed the regional office until 1970.

Honors

• 1952 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1967 Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice
• 1976 Order of Merit Al Merito (Peru)

Works

• On the job of social worker . In: Bayerisches Frauenland . 1926, pp. 11-12 and 18-19
• A sociological experiment . In: The Christian Woman . 1931, pp. 111-115
• The situation of prostitution in Germany . o. O. 1956
• Opportunities and prospects for caring for the vulnerable . In: Voices of the Time , 1959, pp. 452–462

literature

• Manfred Berger : Remembering Luise Jörissen on her 100th birthday . In: Our Youth , 1997, p. 309
• Manfred Berger:  Jörissen, Louise Helene Maria Hubertine. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 710-718.
• Manuel Behringer: 100 years of social learning and teaching. of socially denominational training courses for the Catholic Foundation College . Munich 2009
• Martha Krause-Lang : Jörissen, Luise , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 280f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Behringer 2009, p. 41 ff.