Xaveria Rudler

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Xaveria Rudler

Xaveria Rudler , bourgeois Klara Rudler, (born May 28, 1811 in Guebwiller , † May 24, 1886 in Trier ) was a Franco-German religious and first Superior General of the Borromean Sisters in Germany. She was the first superior in charge of nursing in the opened Catholic St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin.

Life

Xaveria Rudler was born in Gebweiler in Alsace under the real name Klara Rudler as the fifth child of her parents. Her father Franz Xaver Rudler held the office of justice of the peace, her mother Anna Maria, née Heinemann, ran the household, which ultimately included seven children. Her grandfather was the lawyer, administrator and politician François Joseph Rudler . Clara's further education took place from 1824 at the secondary school for girls in Lunéville , a denominational educational institution run by Borromean women . Here Klara's desire to enter this order matured.

One year later, on September 8, 1830 , the novice was accepted into the order of the "Sisters of Mercy of St. Charles Borromeo" and was given her religious name Xaveria. Her desire to take care of the sick had to take a back seat. She was initially employed as a teacher in Lunéville for two years. On October 15, 1833, she took her religious vows . After that, a continuation of her teaching activity in Saarlouis, Germany, awaited her. It was here that the order established its first branch in Germany in 1810, with a focus on a girls' college, supplemented by a hospital and outpatient nursing . Xaveria worked here for thirteen years and acquired the German language, which she had inadequately mastered when she arrived. In addition to working as a teacher, she found time to take care of the nurses, the pharmacy and the kitchen.

Working in Berlin

In 1846 she was given the task of taking care of the newly created St. Hedwig Hospital under her wing together with three nuns in Berlin . As the chosen superior, she was responsible for the entire functioning of the house in the nursing area. It was the first Catholic institution in Protestant Berlin and to a certain extent an object of prestige . However, she could rely on the support of Prince Boguslaw Radziwill . On September 14, 1846, the four nuns arrived at the Potsdamer Bahnhof with their French general superior Ludovine Barre. On December 3rd, the first patient was admitted to the new hospital on Kaiserstrasse.

In May 1847, at the instigation of the superior, the first May services were held in the Prussian capital in the house chapel there , and they enjoyed great popularity.

In the March riots of 1848 , wounded people were admitted to the hospital who were cared for regardless of their status or their religious beliefs. A critical situation on 18./19. March 1848, Xaveria Rudler mastered it skillfully. When armed men broke into the hospital during the barricade fighting and wanted to know from her, as superior, which side she was on, she replied: "We care for your brothers and sisters, we take care of our poor and sick."

Acting as Provincial and General Superior in Trier

The smooth organization of her work three years later meant that Xaveria Rudler was appointed provincial superior for the new mother house (today the mother house of the Borromean women hospital ) of the order in Germany. It was inaugurated in Trier on November 21, 1849 . In view of the support from Nancy, French was a compulsory language in the early years until 1863, when the rules of the order were translated into German. The internal constitution for the motherhouse was aligned with that in Nancy. Xaveria Rudler rose from Provincial Superior to General Superior in 1863. Under her leadership, the order took care of the takeover or construction of hospitals and hospitals as well as the education of young people.

The following overview gives an insight into the projects approved by Xaveria Rudler. Some of them are the foundations for institutions in which Borromean women still perform their services today:

  • After lengthy negotiations, three nuns were sent to the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Bingen , where they began their care activities in December 1854. The foundation institution, which is in a desolate state, was given a new economic boost by the nuns.
  • Another of the hospitals acquired was the “ Hospital of the Holy Spirit ” in Boppard during Xaveria Rudler's tenure . At the initiative of Pastor Johann Baptist Berger, the order, which had established a good reputation, was contractually entrusted with the administration and nursing of this facility. The Provincial Superior Xaveria Rudler arrived on September 21, 1855 in the city on the Rhine with the superior general who had come from Nancy and three nuns as future staff. After the keys were handed over, they moved into the poor condition of the hospital and officially took over the running of the facility on October 1st. The Boppard Borromean women were subsequently entrusted with a toddler care school (1856), a sewing school (1858) and a household boarding school (1864) for household students.
  • In November 1855, three sisters went to Elberfeld to do preparatory work at the newly built Catholic hospital. From January 2, 1856, they took care of the first admitted patients.
  • The Catholic orphanage in Düren came under the direction of the Borromean Sisters on December 1, 1855.
  • In 1856, Xaveria Rudler accompanied three sisters to Barmen in order to help them in their work for the completed “poor, orphans and hospital of the catholic”. Community ”.
  • A cholera epidemic led to the establishment of the Marienhospital in Osnabrück on August 20, 1859 , whose nursing work was placed in the hands of three nuns sent from Trier.
  • In 1861 the sphere of activity expanded to Hamburg . The order took over the care of the orphanage in the cathedral parish, the kindergarten and an old people's home soon followed. On March 18, 1864, a small hospital was set up in a private house for soldiers who had become in need of care during the German-Danish War , which was to become the nucleus for today's Marienkrankenhaus.
  • In Potsdam , on May 1, 1862, three dispatched nuns took on the care of the protégés in the orphanage founded by the pastor in November of the previous year.
  • On August 20, 1866, the Lord Mayor of Bonn turned to the mother house and asked for help from sisters. They should take care of the socially disadvantaged in the city and take care of the sick and those in need.
  • In Trier, Xaveria Rudler established a preservation school for small children, a sewing school for girls, an orphanage in 1862 and a servants' welfare service in 1883.

In 1872 the order had to break away from the French mother house during the Kulturkampf and, with papal approval, become an independent congregation . Xaveria Rudler held her office as General Superior in Trier until her death, which occurred after a short illness on May 24, 1886 (according to another source on May 23).

honors and awards

Xaveria Rudler was awarded the Prussian Cross of Merit for Women and Virgins in recognition of her achievements in the war of 1870/71 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Altenhofer: Biographical lexicon for nursing history: who was who in nursing history . Ed .: Horst-Peter Wolff. Ullstein Mosby, 1997, ISBN 978-3-86126-628-0 , pp. 170-171 .
  2. ↑ St. Elisabeth Bote ( RTF ; 11 kB) accessed on November 11, 2009
  3. ^ Bernhard Meyer: September 14, 1846: First Catholic hospital in Berlin . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 9, 1999, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 86-89 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  4. ↑ Heilig-Geist-Hospital Bingen: Retrieved from the story on November 11, 2009
  5. ↑ History of the Boppard site. (No longer available online.) StiftungsKlinikum Mittelrhein, archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; accessed on February 15, 2014 .
  6. ↑ history. (No longer available online.) St. Josef Hospital, archived from the original on February 21, 2014 ; accessed on February 15, 2014 .
  7. ^ Borromean women in the Catholic children's home St. Josef in Düren, accessed on November 11, 2009
  8. ↑ 150 years of Borromean women in Barmen (PDF; 64 kB) accessed on November 11, 2009
  9. ^ Borromean Sisters in the Marienkrankenhaus Hamburg accessed on November 11, 2009
  10. ↑ The history of the St. Joseph's Hospital. Alexianer Potsdam, accessed February 15, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Borromean women in the city of Bonn's nursing home, accessed on November 11th
  12. ↑ Entry on Xaveria Rudler in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on March 20, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Ordensjournal, Edition 8, May 2007 (PDF; 841 kB) accessed on November 11, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Rudler, Xaveria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudler, Klara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German religious
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Guebwiller
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1886
Place of death trier