Luise Löbbecke
Luise Löbbecke (born August 1, 1808 in Braunschweig ; † May 29, 1892 ibid), social reformer, belonged to the Braunschweig banking family Löbbecke and made a contribution to the welfare of the city of Braunschweig. She is one of Braunschweig's honorary citizens .
Work in Braunschweig
As a result of the hunger years from 1845 to 1847 , Luise Löbbecke, together with her aunt Amalie Löbbecke and other women in Braunschweig, founded a "dining establishment for the needy " on Kannengießerstraße and the Löbbeck educational institution for female servants on Ruhfäutchenplatz . Furthermore, she initiated the establishment of an “Asylum for Cancer Sufferers ” and the Luisenstift for epileptics . In accordance with her Christian view of life to alleviate the misery of her fellow human beings, she used her private fortune to do so.
In recognition of her longstanding services in the field of private welfare , she was the first woman to be awarded the honorary citizenship of Braunschweig on March 7, 1862 , 24 years after it was first awarded. Löbbecke remained the only woman who was honored in this way for the next 46 years - and is one of the three women whose work (alongside 46 men) was honored in this way up to 2008.
In Braunschweig, Luisenstraße and a special school named after it for children with learning disabilities in the Broitzem district in 1976 commemorates Luise Löbbecke. In the place of the Luise-Löbbecke-Heim (formerly servants' institution ) opened on July 4, 1928, there is now a hotel.
Work in (new) Erkerode
In 1865, Löbbecke made a request to the Duke of Brunswick's State Ministry to set up a foundation for mentally handicapped children, and in 1867 went public with this matter. With the support of the doctor Oswald Berkhan , this led the Erkeröder local pastor Gustav Stutzer to found the Idioten-Anstalt in Erkerode in 1868 , which later developed into the Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode . A house (civil servants' house) , built in 1900 and originally serving as a senior employee of the foundation , has been a reminder of the institution's sponsor since 2010 as the art workshop Villa Luise .
The Luise-Löbbecke-Ring , donated by the Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode and the Bankhaus Löbbecke in 2008 , which is associated with prize money to promote social and cultural projects and is to be awarded every two years, was first awarded on October 30, 2008.
literature
- Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 . 4th edition 1996.
Web links
- Luise Löbbecke. on braunschweig.de
- Back then ... 1868. on neuerkerode.de, the website of the Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode
- Luise Löbbecke Ring. at bankhaus-loebbecke.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Luise Löbbecke on braunschweig.de, accessed on September 14, 2013.
- ^ Entries for the period from 1920 to 1929. In: Stadtchronik Braunschweig. City of Braunschweig, p. 8 , accessed on February 5, 2010 .
- ^ Stephan Querfurth: Villa Luise is the name of the new art workshop . Creativity has got a new home. In: Rüdiger Becker (ed.): NeuErkeröder sheets . No. 79 . Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode, March 2010, p. 8-9 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Löbbecke, Luise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social reformer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig , Department of the Oker , Kingdom of Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1892 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig , Duchy of Braunschweig , German Empire |