Mathilde von Dellingshausen

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Mathilde Isalie Laura Luise Freiin von Dellingshausen (* 4th April July / 16 April  1854 greg. In Libau ; † 22 September 1920 in Stuttgart ) was the founder of the Rescue Association for the Good Shepherd, today Social Service of Catholic Women eV Diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart .

Photograph of a painting by Mathilde von Dellingshausen

Life and social work

She was the fifth of six children of the Tsarist Guard Officer Julius Adolf von Dellingshausen (born January 19, 1808 in Reval , † January 10, 1882 in Stuttgart) and his wife Juliane Eleonore, née. Countess von Kleist-Keyserlingk (born June 27, 1818 in Gawesen, Kurland ; † January 15, 1900 in Stuttgart). According to the belief of her mother, Mathilde was baptized and brought up as a Protestant in her Baltic German parents' home. The father was invalidated at an early age, so the family moved to Wiesbaden in 1859 , and in 1866 they moved to Stuttgart. The family found access to the Württemberg court of King Karl I and his wife Olga , daughter of the Russian tsar Nikolaus I. In Grand Duchess Wera , a niece of the queen who was the same age as Mathilde, she found a friend who had been linked to her for life stayed. Inspired by French edification literature, she became interested in the Catholic faith. During a vacation at her uncle's house, she met the Abbé Quignard, Curé de St-Eustache (Paris) , who taught her converts. On February 19, 1883, she secretly converted to the Catholic faith in Paris . Back in Stuttgart, she looked for charitable work in a Catholic environment. At the suggestion of Emilie Freifrau von Soden (1835-1913) she worked in the Vinzenz-Elisabethen-Verein. Baron Mathilde von Dellingshausen found access to the girls and women who were then known as the "unworthy poor" and in 1903 a group of women was formed which was called the "Aid Association for Unworthy Poor". They made visits to the hospital, maternity ward, and prison as their duty. On February 1, 1905, with the consent of Rottenburg Bishop Paul Wilhelm von Keppler, the "Rescue Association for the Good Shepherd" was founded, which Mathilde von Dellingshausen was in charge of until her death. Out of the need to offer the women sheltered accommodation, she rented rooms and apartments and in 1909 founded a home for single mothers (Paulusstift). In 1912, planning began for the Neuhausen / Fildern children's and youth home, which was inaugurated in 1914. The rescue association was renamed the present day Social Service of Catholic Women eV Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

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SURNAME Dellingshausen, Mathilde von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dellingshausen, Mathilde Isalie Laura Luise Freiin von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic noblewoman, founder of the rescue association of the good shepherd
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Libau
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1920
Place of death Stuttgart