Tilla von Praun
Tilla von Praun , actually Carla Amalie Mathilde von Praun , b. Ritter (* 26. July 1877 in Braunschweig ; † 3. December 1962 ibid) was a German social reformer and DVP - politician .
Life
Tilla Ritter was the daughter of a sugar refinery director. In 1898 she married Ferdinand II von Praun, the Brunswick district judge. The marriage resulted in three sons and a daughter. In 1898 she became a member of the Patriotic Women's Association . Since 1908 von Praun has held various honorary positions in charities and women's associations. In Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel she worked in prison welfare. During the First World War , she headed the Brunswick collection point of the Red Cross for four and a half years . From 1917 to 1925 she was director of the nurses and hospital of the Red Cross in Braunschweig. She was the only woman on the administrative board of the Neu-Erkeröder Anstalten until its dissolution in 1944. Von Praun was a member of the Braunschweig Landtag for the DVP from 1924 to 1933 , and since 1931 she was a member of the city council. From 1926 von Praun was active in the state executive committee of the Evangelical Federation , where she dealt with questions of concordat . After the National Socialists came to power , it was on a blacklist of the NSDAP . She left her apartment in Braunschweig and was under the supervision of the Gestapo until 1945 .
After the end of the Second World War , in 1945 she founded the Braunschweig Women's Association, which she headed until 1956. In 1959, at the age of 82, she founded the Braunschweig branch of the Indo-German Society , which she headed for another year.
Honors
Von Praun received the Red Cross Medal III in 1915 . Class, in 1918 the Braunschweig War Merit Cross for women and the Red Cross Medal II. Class and in 1962 the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon. In the Broitzem district of Braunschweig , Tilla-von-Praun-Straße was named after her.
literature
- Tilla von Praun in memory. Braunschweig 1962, OCLC 550564837 .
- Gabriele Armenat (ed.): Women from Braunschweig. 3rd enlarged and improved edition. Braunschweig City Library, Braunschweig 1991, ISBN 6-088-34335-4 .
- Marianne Löhr: Praun, Tilla von, geb. Knight. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 467 f .
Web links
- Carla Amalie Mathilde ("Tilla") from Praun. In: Women in the political life of the city. on gibs.info
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 279.
- ↑ Gabriele Armenat (ed.): Women from Braunschweig. 3rd enlarged and improved edition. Braunschweig City Library, Braunschweig 1991, p. 116.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Praun, Tilla von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ritter, Mathilde Carla Amalie (maiden name); Knight, Tilla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social reformer and politician (DVP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 1962 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |