Sophie Colsman
Sophie Colsman (born November 25, 1847 - October 23, 1927 ) was a German philanthropist.
Career
Sophie Feldhoff was a daughter of the Langenberg silk manufacturer Friedrich August Feldhoff (1801–1873) and his second wife Theodora Christiana Kalkhoff (1817–1893). In 1870 she married Adalbert Colsman (1839–1917), partner in the silk weaving mill Gebrüder Colsman in Langenberg (Rhineland) . With her husband she made numerous philanthropic foundations, including the community center in Langenberg and the new Protestant cemetery with cemetery chapel in Langenberg. In 1923 she donated the Altbergian patrician house "Der Engel" of the Inner Mission as a home for the elderly and also her house " Die Au " and its inventory were to be given to the foundation after death and sold. As intended, the foundation bears the name "Elisabethstift" in memory of her sister Elisabeth Feldhoff, who died early. After the headquarters of the Inner Mission were relocated from Langenberg to Düsseldorf, the foundation was transferred to the sponsorship of the Langenberger Hospital Association . The couple had no children of their own. The daughter of the Finnish Africa missionary Botolf Bernhard Björklund , Johanna Björklund (1875–1936) was taken in and raised in the house.
literature
- Carola Groppe: The spirit of entrepreneurship - an educational and social story. The Colsman family of silk manufacturers 1649–1840. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar and Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-11004-3 , pp. 16, 544, 545, also: Habilitation thesis, University of Bochum, 2002/03
- ET Colsman: Pedigree of the Colsman Family. Langenberg 1930, panel II
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| SURNAME | Colsman, Sophie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1847 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1927 |