Patriotic women's association

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Street vendors of the Patriotic Women's Association in Berlin , on Margeritentag 1911

The Vaterländische Frauenverein (VFV) (long form: German women's association for care and help for wounded in war ) was founded by the Prussian Queen (later German Empress) Augusta in 1866.

history

The founding of 1866, during the German War , soon gave rise to the first district associations, which in the following years formed the forerunners of the women's associations of the Red Cross in the various regions of the empire . The first clubs of this kind in Germany are the Patriotic Women's Association in Koblenz , the Hamburg Association and the one in Kassel , which were founded between 1866 and 1869. On July 18, 1870, Emmy , wife of battalion doctor Carl Türk , founded one in Lübeck just before the outbreak of the Franco-German War .

Club hospitals were operated for wounded warriors. During the First World War , VFV also set up war kindergartens .

Queen Louise appointed Gabriele Marie von Itzenplitz (1839–1901) from the Brandenburg aristocratic family Itzenplitz as the first chairman of the association . After Louise Gabriele Marie's marriage in the following year, her sister Countess Charlotte Clementine von Itzenplitz took over the chairmanship and led the association for half a century from 1867 to 1916.

VFV were also founded in Berlin (see photo), Bonn and numerous other places.

The history of the independent women's associations ended with the DRK law of December 9, 1937.

Regional association Oldenburg

The first women's associations in the state of Oldenburg were founded in 1870 (City of Oldenburg), 1875 in Jever, 1879 in Delmenhorst, 1881 in Varel and 1886 in Brake. By merging the branches of the VFV in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (with the exception of the Principality of Birkenfeld ), the "State Association of Patriotic Women's Associations in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg" is formed on September 30, 1892, with its seat in Oldenburg (Oldb.). The branch associations in the Principality of Lübeck (Ahrensbök and Eutin) also joined him. During the First World War , a number of new foundations can be recorded: 1914 (Bardenfleth, Bardewisch, Berne, Elsfleth, Ganderkesee, Neuenhuntorf, Osternburg, Varel-Land, Vechta, Warfleth ), 1915 (Friesoythe, Oldenbrok, Zwischenahn) and 1916 (Burhave). In 1917 the regional association comprised a total of 26 branch associations with around 6,500 members.

Organizationally, it was divided into the four departments for people's kitchen, housekeeping, baby care and war preparation.

Its facilities or activities have included since

  • 1879: People's kitchen (Ritterstraße 7, Oldenburg)
  • 1884: coffee level
  • 1892: Sewing evening for conscripts
  • 1903: Housekeeping and maternity leave
  • 1911: Breastfeeding bonuses
  • 1911: Infant welfare office
  • 1915: children's kitchen
  • 1916: Infant home (in Gartenstrasse, from 1917 in the old parliament, horse market, Oldenburg)
  • 1917: Traveling exhibition on infant care
  • 1917: Training of auxiliary nurses and helpers
  • 1918: Demand for a professional sisterhood from the Red Cross
  • 1918: youth group
  • 1925: Infant home (Alexanderstraße, Oldenburg)
  • 1927 Middle class kitchen.

The regional association of the VFV later worked closely with the Oldenburg regional association of the Red Cross . and in 1882 was a founding member of the Association of German Nursing Institutes of the Red Cross , today's Association of Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross eV

literature

  • Charlotte Countess von Itzenplitz : Handbook of the patriotic women's association . Heymann, Berlin 1917, 2nd report. u. exp. Ed. Anniversary edition. DNB 580904318
  • Carl Misch : History of the Patriotic Women's Association 1866-1916 . Heymann, Berlin 1917.
  • Tobias Scholta: Health care of the Association of Patriotic Women's Associations of the Province of Brandenburg in Eberswalde , in: Kristina Hübener / Andreas Ludwig / René Schreiter (ed.): Social foundations and associations in Brandenburg. From the German Empire to the re-establishment of the state of Brandenburg in the Federal Republic (= series of publications on medical history, 22). Berlin 2012, pp. 249-274, ISBN 978-3-937233-95-6 .

Web links

Commons : Patriotic Women's Association  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 16, No. 25, Edition of March 29, 1874, pp. 154–155.
  2. ↑ Achim Konejung The Rhineland and the First World War , p. 110: War kindergarten of the Vaterländischer Frauenverein | Vaterländischer Frauenverein for the district of Bonn , 2014 ISBN 978-3-939722-90-8
  3. ↑ Ortrud Wörner-Heil: Noble women as pioneers of vocational training: The rural housekeeping and the Reifensteiner Association (PDF; 2.7 MB). Kassel University Press 2010, ISBN 978-3-89958-904-7 , pp. 407 f.
  4. ↑ Achim Konejung The Rhineland and the First World War , p. 110: War kindergarten of the Vaterländischer Frauenverein | Vaterländischer Frauenverein for the district of Bonn , 2014 ISBN 978-3-939722-90-8
  5. ^ Statutes of the National Association of Patriotic Women's Associations in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, 1905
  6. ↑ Handbook of the Fatherland Women's Association, Second corrected and expanded edition, Berlin 1917
  7. ↑ Handbook of the Fatherland Women's Association, Second corrected and expanded edition, Berlin 1917
  8. ↑ Handbook of the Fatherland Women's Association, Second corrected and expanded edition, Berlin 1917
  9. ↑ 150 years - For the love of people. Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Landesverband Oldenburg, Oldenburg 2014 ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.4 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jrk-oldenburg.de
  10. ↑ Sigrid Schmidt-Meinecke: The call of the hour. Sisters under the Red Cross. Stuttgart 1963, page 17