Toni Petersen
Antonie , called Toni, Petersen (born March 23, 1840 in Hamburg ; † September 20, 1909 there ) was a German art patron and benefactor.
Live and act
Toni Petersen was a daughter of the Hamburg mayor Carl Friedrich Petersen and his wife Kathinka (born March 19, 1813 as Kathinka Hasche in Hamburg; † September 4, 1863 there). She belonged to the home care association founded in 1899. The association cared for families in need and financed caregivers for times housewives spent childbirth or were sick. Toni Petersen took over the tasks of the association on St. Pauli and offered consultation hours there. She also worked in the Hamburg branch of the DEF .
Since Toni Petersen had suffered from hip disease from an early age and therefore suffered from pain, she had little chance of finding a husband. Presumably for this reason she ran her father's household after her mother's death. Petersen, who supported art and music, made the acquaintance of Johannes Brahms , Hans von Bülow and Richard Wagner , with whom she maintained a particularly friendly relationship.
When the Bayreuth Festival had financial problems, Petersen sold patronage certificates for them.
As a lady from an upscale house, Petersen took over the chairmanship of a women's committee. In this function she presented gifts to the Hamburg Senate and the citizenship in 1897 on the occasion of the inauguration of the Hamburg City Hall . For the Senate, she had planned an embroidered wall hanging that showed a large city coat of arms. This jewelry was placed under the canopy for the first and second mayors. The Hamburg citizenship received an embroidered panel from her . This adorned the wall behind the President of the Citizenship.
After her brother's wife died, Toni Petersen also looked after his brother's household. One year after her death, personalities from the Hamburg Society founded the Toni-Petersen-Freibettenstiftung in her honor . The foundation was based in the Auguste Viktoria nursing home in Bad Oldesloe .
Toni Petersen was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in the area of the Petersen family complex at AA 13, 1–12 ( Norderstrasse near Nordteich ).
Honors
The Petersenkai in Hamburg's HafenCity district was named after Toni Petersen's father Carl Friedrich Petersen. In August 2017, the Hamburg Senate decided to provide some existing street signs with an information sign in order to additionally honor the female relatives, this also applies to Toni Petersen.
literature
- Claudia Graciela Petersen: The daughter of the 'Doge'. The life and work of Hamburg's mayor's daughter Antonie Petersen. Leipzig 2018. ISBN 978-3-96023-062-5
- Rita Bake : Petersen, Toni . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 323-324 .
Web links
- Antonie (Toni) Petersen at Frauenbiografien hamburg.de
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petersen, Toni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Petersen, Antonie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art patron and benefactor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1909 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |