Minna Blanckertz

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Minna Blanckertz (born June 25, 1867 in Düsseldorf ; † December 10, 1955 in Ellwangen ) was a German social worker , chairwoman of the Rhenish Women's Club and a private charity .

Life

Wilhelmine Blanckertz, called Minna, was born in 1867 into the Blanckertz family of manufacturers in Düsseldorf, which enabled her to live a carefree existence. Her privileged origin was a lifelong commitment to charity for her .

In 1905 Minna Blanckertz was one of the founding women of the Rhenish Women's Club with Clara Poensgen , who was also a member of the Women's Welfare Association , and Agnes Preyer . Since 1911, she has been the first chairwoman of the women's club for “educated women and girls”, based in the family-owned house at Rosenstrasse 20, into a cultural and social center of the city's bourgeois women. There was an employment agency under the roof of the Rheinisches Frauenklub with the same address.

So she was also a member and in 1914 on the extended board of the “Women's Association for Honoring Rhineland Poets”, which was founded on July 3, 1909 in Darmstadt. For the support of needy artists she got involved in the association Düsseldorfer Künstlerinnen , to which she had been associated since it was founded in 1911. She was friends with many female artists, including the type artist Anna Simons , who lived briefly in 1912 at 20 Rosenstrasse.

As an author , she wrote the educational workbook for kindergartens What does nature give to children? Instructions for observing nature and occupation , which was published by BG Teubner Verlag from 1910 to 1926 with four editions.

With the main leadership of the Patriotic Women's Association , Minna Blanckertz played a key role in the development of the Red Cross in Düsseldorf. With the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, an emergency occurred for the Düsseldorf Red Cross Society, as Düsseldorf was the large supply center and hospital location for the western front. The column members looked after and transported the wounded soldiers from the train station in Bilk to the hospitals. The Patriotic Women's Association , with Minna Blanckertz as chairwoman, experienced an incredible boom during this time. More than 3000 helpers took care of the care in the hospitals, which were spread all over the city. The women's association, together with the city administration, set up a "central office for voluntary charity" in the town hall. Minna Blanckertz was in charge of child care there . Before that, she was involved in setting up the Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria- Krippe , built between 1913 and 1914 by Carl Wilhelm Schleicher at Blumenthalstrasse 12. In addition, the Patriotic Women's Association operated the association and sick refreshment centers at train stations, information centers for missing persons, homes for the wounded, asylums for women, crèches, after-school care centers, war kitchens and sewing rooms. In 1921, three years after the end of the war, the national men and women associations came together under the name of the German Red Cross in order to dedicate themselves to welfare work.

With the “Schatulle”, a collection and exchange point for private valuables at Jacobistraße 12, Blanckertz created an effective debtor support facility and, during the inflation from 1914 to 1923, built up a welfare service for pensioners that was later taken over by the city of Düsseldorf has been. Around 1930 she converted the club building into a retirement home; another private clubhouse was at 15 Inselstrasse.

When Düsseldorf was exposed to increased bombing during the Second World War , Minna Blanckertz moved to live with relatives in Baden-Württemberg , Ellwangen, in 1944 , where she died in December 1955 at the age of 88.

Honor

In 1956, the “Blanckertzstraße”, which runs from Bergische Landstraße to Am Backesberg in Ludenberg , was named in her memory . She was posthumously honored by the Red Cross for her far-reaching activities by naming the old people's and nursing home "Minna-Blanckertz-Heim" on the Kölner Landstrasse in Wersten .

literature

  • Ursula Bender; Ellen Görs: Organized Weiberkram: The organized women's movement in Düsseldorf 1900-1933 , Goethe-Buchhandlung, 1992, ISBN 3-924331-25-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frauen-Klub-Haus GmbH, Prokura Fräulein Wilhelmine, called Minna Blanckertz Düsseldorfer Adreßbuch, IV. Authorities, Commercial Register, 1925, p. 81
  2. ^ Rheinischer Frauenklub, Bismarckstrasse. 121, 1st chairwoman Mrs. Karl Poensgen, Oststr. 21 2nd Chair: Ms. Ernst Preyer, Treasurer: Miss M. Blanckertz, Bahnstr. 29 , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf, 1908, p. 42
  3. ↑ Rheinischer Frauenklub eV, Rosenstrasse 20 , address book for the city of Düsseldorf, 1912, 3rd part of the population directory sorted by street and house number. P. 312
  4. ↑ Himmelgeister Strasse 60, (E Blanckertz, Erben Rosenstrasse 20) , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf, 1936, p. 211
  5. ^ Employment agency of the Rheinisches Frauenklubs, Rosenstrasse 20, for "educated women and girls" , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf, 1915, p. 52
  6. ↑ Robert Walser: Small seals , first edition made for the women's association to honor Rhenish poets, Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig, 1914
  7. ↑ A portrait of Minna Blanckertz can be found in the Stadtmuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf: Mrs. Blanckertz was the main leader of the German Red Cross
  8. ^ V. Employee insurance, shop stewards on the part of the employees: Minna Blanckertz, chairwoman of the Rhenish women's club , in the administrative report of the state capital Düsseldorf from April 1, 1914 to March 31, 1919, special section. B. Caring for Physical Life, pp. 225–226
  9. ^ Frauenklubhaus, GmbH, Inselstrasse 15 , in address book for Düsseldorf city and surroundings, 1931
  10. ^ German Red Cross, Patriotic Women's Association, Chair: Minna Blanckertz, Rosenstr. 20, now Wilhelm-Klein-Straße 20, 1. Hauptverw., Pensionersbund dormitory, Rheinischer Frauenklub, Pensionerinnenheim, 2. Auguste-Viktoria-Haus, Blumenthalstr. 12, infant and children's home and state-recognized infant care school. Sales point: “Schatulle”, Jacobistraße 12 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf, 1936, p. 63
personal data
SURNAME Blanckertz, Minna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blanckertz, Wilhelmine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social pedagogue, chairwoman of the Rhenish women's club and active in charity
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1955
Place of death Ellwangen