Regine Jolberg

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Regine Jolberg , née Zimmer, widowed Neustetel (born June 30, 1800 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 5, 1870 in Nonnenweier ) was the founder of a Protestant deaconess house, which initially had its seat in Leutesheim . She is best known through the establishment of day-care centers .

Life

Regine came from the wealthy Jewish Zimmer family, whose roots were in Heidelberg . Her father David Zimmer (1767-1845) was a respected trader and banker in Heidelberg. Her mother Sara (1777–1832) was the daughter of the merchant Amschel Moses Flörsheim from Frankfurt am Main . Regine's older brother Sigmund Wilhelm Zimmer became a lawyer and professor at the universities of Heidelberg and Jena.

Her school education was initially in the hands of private tutors . At the age of 10, she was sent to a Christian boarding school by her parents. In her life review she wrote: Here a new world opened up to me. The Sundays and feast days with their solemnity made a deep impression on my heart, especially the wonderful Christmas festival, which opened with the chorale "This is the day God made".

youth

After five years, Regine Zimmer left boarding school and returned to her family. It was introduced into Frankfurt's bourgeois society, with formative encounters with English, French and Italian literature. Music also played a major role in the parents' house. In addition to the obligatory house music, chamber concerts were also held on the family estate.

Marriage to Joseph Neustetel

At these literary-historical social evenings she met the lawyer Dr. Joseph Hubertus Neustetel know and married him in 1821. The wedding was carried out according to the Jewish rite. The marriage resulted in two daughters, Emma and Mathilde. Mathilde later married Martin Gottlieb Wilhelm Brandt (1818-1894), girls' school director in Saarbrücken. The classical philologists Samuel Brandt and Paul Brandt were sons of Mathilde and MGW Brandt.

When Regine's husband became seriously ill in the first few years of their marriage, the doctors advised the couple to take a longer cure in the warmer Nice . After a temporary improvement, her husband died in Nice. An English preacher , whom they had met during their stay in Nice, led the funeral service in the Protestant cemetery in the southern French city. Faith conversations that she had with the clergyman in this context gave rise to the decision to convert to Christianity .

Marriage to Salomon Jolberg

As a young widow, Regine Neustetel initially lived with her children in Heidelberg. Here, after two years, she met the lawyer Salomon Jolberg, her former tutor. They married and shortly after their marriage took part in a Christian conversion course in Heilbronn , which eventually led to the baptism of the couple. Regine Jolberg gave birth to two more children, but each of them died shortly after birth. In 1829 Salomon Jolberg also died in Stuttgart , where they had recently moved. She was now fully occupied with bringing up her daughters and looking after her father.

Labor school and mother house

After moving to Leutesheim in 1840 , she founded a work school and then a motherhouse for nannies. Eleven years later in 1851 she finally moved to Nonnenweier , where schoolgirls were trained in the nurses' home there. By 1870 there were more than 350 nannies in Nonnenweier, in the sister homes in Wilchingen and Neuenheim , which were also founded . Their area of ​​operation extended mainly to southwest Germany and Switzerland .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Käte Brandt: Regine Jolberg. A life at God's disposal , Holzgerlingen 1999 ISBN 3-7751-3240-6 , p. 11.
  2. ↑ Eduard Jacobs:  Brandt, Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 179-182.

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personal data
SURNAME Jolberg, Regine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmer, Regine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of a Protestant deaconess house
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1870
Place of death Nunsweier