Stephanie Guiot du Ponteil

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Stephanie Guiot du Ponteil , born Stephanie of Froelich (* 16th February 1830 in Augsburg ; † 11. December 1886 ibid) was a German benefactor and philanthropist .

Live and act

Her father was the banker Albert von Froelich, her mother Laura von Schaezler . She had three younger siblings who died early. As a result, she was sole heir to Froelich's immense fortune. At the age of 19, Stephanie von Froelich, who lost her mother at the age of four and a half, married the Catholic landowner Count Alexander Guiot du Ponteil. The tolerant father had approved the interdenominational marriage, which remained childless.

After the death of her husband in 1879, the Countess moved back to Augsburg from Gut Thürnhofen near Feuchtwangen . In Thürnhofen, the landlady had set up a foundation for pastor widows. In her hometown, the Countess volunteered in social and diaconal work. For example, in addition to other small foundations, she maintained Protestant prayer houses in Lechhausen , Oberhausen and Pfersee . As early as 1876, after the death of her father (1875), the noblewoman established the Albert von Froelich'sche Krankenstiftung endowed with 69,000 marks . Four years later, the Countess made sure that poor and destitute sick people, especially working-class women, received the necessary medical help and support with the help of the Graf du Poteil'sches Freibett Foundation . Every year at Christmas she took care of poor and orphaned children, fed and re-dressed them.

Grave of the countess in the Protestant cemetery in Augsburg

The Countess died on December 11, 1886 at the age of 56. She was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Augsburg , where her grave has been preserved.

estate

The countess donated her fortune to the deaconess institution in Augsburg. This acquired the Froelich'sche Gartengut near the Augsburg train station and built the new building for the deaconess hospital from 1891 to 1893 .

At her request, the Countess von Guiot du Poteil'sche Foundation was set up to support poor orphans (today: people in need) immediately after her death . The annual budget for this is distributed by the Superior of the Evangelical Deaconesses.

literature

  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft Augsburger Stiftungen (Ed.): Foundations in Augsburg , Augsburg 2003, p. 36.
  • Edith Findel, Irene Löffler, Anne Schmucker (eds.): Augsburger Frauenlexikon , Augsburg 2006, pp. 68–69.
  • Countess Ponteil donated the Diako in the Augsburger Allgemeine on May 18, 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gräfliche von Guiot du Ponteil'sche Foundation ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Arbeitsgemeinschaft Augsburger Stiftungen 2003, p. 36.
personal data
SURNAME Guiot du Ponteil, Stephanie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES from Froelich, Stephanie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1886
Place of death augsburg