Margarete von Oertzen

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Margarete von Oertzen , b. von Plüskow , pseudonym MvO , Margarete Fünfgeld (born October 14, 1854 in Kowalz, today part of Thelkow ; † March 8, 1934 in Rostock ) was a German writer.

Live and act

She came from the Mecklenburg noble family von Plüskow and was the daughter of the manor owner and district administrator Josias von Plüskow and his wife, a born von Schack .

1873 she married Lieutenant Friedrich von Oertzen (1848-1936), a son of Ludwig Georg von Oertzen on Woltow . She was shaped by the revival movement and founded a Sunday school . Even childless, she took in Gertrud von Williesen and Ulla von der Lühe (1880–1963) as foster daughters. In Berlin she made the acquaintance of Pastor Eduard Kuhlo, Johannes Kuhlo's father , and supported him; in Hamburg she supported the city mission of her cousin Jasper von Oertzen . She was involved in various Christian activities, distributed tracts and wrote for Sunday papers. In 1899 she went on a trip to Egypt and the Holy Land. In 1902 she took part in the women's prayer union conference and from 1915 was chairwoman of the German women's mission prayer union founded by Hedwig von Redern .

Margarete von Oertzen wrote an abundance of edifying and in her time successful books for children and young people, some of which have been reissued to the present day, but also treatises for adults. Under the abbreviation MvO , she published games on the Bible, such as a biblical quartet quartet game for children and young people, which were sold through the Friedrich Bahn bookstore in Schwerin and later through the Johannis Verlag in Lahr.

Fonts

  • Your brother's blood. Frankfurt a. M .: German Aid Association f. christl. Liebeswerk im Orient, [1908], 20th ed.
  • God's dear child: story for young and old. 8th edition Schwerin i. M.: Railway 1912
  • It is done to you according to your faith! Schwerin i. M .: Bahn, 1913, 3rd edition.
  • Come to me all - 100 adult tracts. Schwerin i. Meckl .: Bahn, undated [around 1914]
  • It has to be grace, grace all alone. Schwerin i. M .: Railway 1915
  • God's guidance. Schwerin i / M. : Railway 1917
  • The silent Hanne and other stories. Schwerin i. M .: Bahn 1918, 6th edition.
  • My life: an autobiography. Lahr-Dinglingen (Baden): St. Johannis-Druckerei [1934], 4th edition 1950

literature

  • Oertzen, Margarete von , in: Gudrun Wedel: Autobiographies of women: a lexicon. Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau 2010, ISBN 9783412205850 , p. 623

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The German National Library lists 142 publications by her
  2. ↑ See Sigrid Nagy: Bible - Festivals - Games. In: Christa Pieske (ed.): Working Group image printing paper: Conference Chemnitz in 1997 , Munster etc .: Waxmann 1999, ISBN 9783893257515 , pp 31-44, here p 39
personal data
SURNAME Oertzen, Margarete von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plüskow, Margarete von (maiden name); MvO (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Kowalz, today part of Thelkow
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1934
Place of death Rostock