Meta Rötting

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Meta Rötting (* May 7, 1895 in Altona ; † May 23, 1979 in Garding ) was a German domestic servant and seamstress .

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Meta Rötting was born as the daughter of a worker in Altona. She had two brothers. After the father died at a young age, the single mother moved with the children to the Knackerügge monastery in St. Georg . It was an institution founded by senior elder Hieronymus Knackerügge and his son-in-law Johann Sillem in 1613, which offered free living space to needy widows with offspring. Rötting was already earning money while she was still at school as a “running girl” for a sewing workshop. At the age of 14, like her mother, she took on a permanent job. After the end of the First World War she worked as a tailor in a ladies' tailor's shop until the Great Inflation . She found a new job as a worker in a chemical company Promonta they up to the global economic crisis had 1929th After that she earned little money working from home for the Hamburg nursery .

Meta Rötting now lived in the Bohmbachs-Passage near the monastery, where she cared for the sick mother who lived with her. While her brothers found spouses, since her boyfriend had died during World War I, she remained single. After her mother died, Rötting moved to Neumünster , where one of the brothers lived and the cost of living was lower than in Hamburg. She had a small apartment where she sewed children's clothes. During the Second World War , their homes were destroyed twice by bomb hits. As a result she lost her sewing machine and with it her livelihood. Afterwards she worked in different places as a house tailor. In old age she lived in a retirement home in Neumünster, later in a nursing home at Garding, where she died. Her grave can be found in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Details from Meta Rötting's life are only known because she wrote memoirs that were revised and published in 1997.

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SURNAME Rötting, Meta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German domestic worker and seamstress
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1979
Place of death Garding