Maria Countess Graimberg-Bellau

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Maria Countess Graimberg-Bellau (* July 8, 1879 in Bensheim , † June 14, 1965 in Heidelberg ) was a German pioneer of female professional work in the social field, founder of one of the first Catholic women's social schools in Germany.

Live and act

Honorary grave of Maria Countess Graimberg-Bellau on the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof in the family grave (Dept. C 50, 51, and 52), middle lying stone

Maria Antoinette Josephine Theresia Franziska was the eldest of three children of Count Philibert Graimberg-Bellau and his wife Anna Maria Countess Otting-Fünfstetten. She spent her childhood at Lautrach Castle near Memmingen and in Aschaffenburg . After the usual training for girls of her class at the time, private lessons, attending a secondary school for girls and the girls' boarding school at St. Joseph's Monastery on Zangberg , she led the life of a house daughter :

But this 'perspective-free existence' in no way satisfied the young countess. That is why she attended the language teacher institute in Aschaffenburg, which enabled her to teach French after graduation .

Comtesse Maria was drawn to a monastic life. But the deeply religious parents were against it and so she tried to combine her religious convictions with a form of charitable commitment. In particular, encouraged and supported by Ellen Ammann , Pauline Countess Montgelas , Agnes Neuhaus u. a. Women of the Catholic women's movement and Professor Michael Faulhaber , who later became Cardinal of Munich-Freising, founded the Countess at Am Kornmarkt 5 in Heidelberg at the beginning of April 1911, a social women's school for Catholic young girls and women. The institution should be supported by Catholic educational ideals, the professional work should be worship . Many of her students had a decisive influence on social work. In 1918 , for example, Maria Croenlein set up the first expanded social women's school in Switzerland in Lucerne , called the Swiss Social and Charitable Women's School in Lucerne .

She played a key role in the establishment (November 11, 1916) of the professional organization Verein Katholischer Sozialbeamtinnen Deutschland , whose first chairwoman Helene Weber was elected; from 1918 to 1933 she was city councilor for the center.

When the Nazis came to power, she was able to maneuver her school, whose closure was threatened again and again, through the turmoil of the times,

without having made any significant compromises with those in power . The headmistress had the required subject 'genetic and racial studies' taught. She unequivocally problematized these contents with regard to their religious-ethical significance for the committed carer of the Catholic faith .

Until 1951, Countess Maria Graimberg-Bellau was still in charge of the women's social school. In 1951 she handed over the training center to the sponsorship of the German Caritas Association, which in 1977 transferred the institution, which has named itself after the noblewoman since 1966, to the Catholic University of Applied Sciences for Social Sciences and Religious Education in Freiburg .

With the death of Countess Maria de Graimberg-Bellau in 1965, the German branch of the French noble family of Graimberg-Bellau died out.

Maria Countess Graimberg-Bellau found her final resting place in the Graimberg family grave in the Bergfriedhof (Heidelberg) in section C 50, 51, and 52.

Awards and honors

Works

  • From Heidelberg's past, in: 60 Years of the Palatinate Festschrift Heidelberg 1865-1925, Heidelberg 1925
  • Welfare profession as a gift and a task, in: Social greetings. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Social Women's School Heidelberg 1911-1961, Heidelberg 1961

literature

  • Susanne Zeller: Maria von Graimberg. Forty years of training as a social worker in Heidelberg, Freiburg / Br. 1989
  • City Archives Heidelberg (Ed.): Frauengestalten. Social commitment in Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1995, pp. 118–131.
  • Manfred Berger : Who was ... Countess Maria Graimberg-Bellau ?, in: Sozialmagazin 1999 / H. 5, pp. 6-8.
  • Manfred Berger:  Graimberg-Bellau, Maria Antoinette Josephine Theresia Franziska Countess von. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 517-526.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Susanne Zeller: Graimberg-Bellau, Maria von , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 213f.
  • Ulrike Kayser: The first training centers for social work and their leaders, Berlin 1997 (unpublished diploma thesis)
  • Ilona Scheidle: "Profession as calling". The school founder Maria von Graimberg (1874 - 1964). In: Heidelberg women who made history. Munich 2006, pp. 131–143.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berger 1999, p. 7
  2. ↑ cf. Kayser 1997, p. 13 ff.
  3. ↑ cit. n.Berger 1999, p. 7
  4. ↑ cf. Kayser 1997, p. 23
  5. ↑ Maier 1999, p. 214
  6. ^ Bergfriedhof Heidelberg, Countess Maria Graimberg-Bellau, Department C 50, 51, and 52.
personal data
SURNAME Graimberg-Bellau, Countess Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social worker
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensheim
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1965
Place of death Heidelberg