Therese Blunck

Therese Friederike Helene Blunck (* June 9, 1875 in Schipphorsterwohld on Gut Bothkamp, ​​died June 16, 1942 in Kiel) was a German welfare worker. Life and WorkChoose source code

Members of the Blunck family came from the area around Wankendorf, where they also lived. Therese Blunck was a daughter of Johann Joachim Blunck (* 1842) and his wife Christina Sophia, born Lüders (* 1839). The father worked in a long line on Gut Bothkamp as a stone sculptor and inste.

Therese Blunck lived in Wankendorf until the age of 18. Afterwards, she became a nurse at the Diakonissen headquarters in Altona. A few years later, she moved to the mother-house of the German Red Cross in Kiel and worked there as a nurse, later also in Itzehoe. She had one last place in the Sexually Sickness Hospital in the Kiel Municipal Hospital, where she decided to help morally vulnerable girls.

Blunck then devoted himself to community work but was unable to make any real progress. Together with respected and influential Kiel citizens, she founded the "Schutzverein Kieler Mädchenheim" in 1908, whose first presidency took over Andrae

Around 1908, Blunck also founded a voluntarily organized police service at the Kiel police department with a home. Thus she became a pioneer of open and closed prevention for morally threatened girls and women in this state. Your home initially included a rented floor and expanded into a separate house in 1916.

Due to the growing number of accidents, Blunck decided in 1920 to focus on police care and concentrate on home management. She bought the house and opened her aid program for all kinds of emergencies. She was able to accommodate 110 people through an extension built in 1928. Her work made her well known far beyond Schleswig-Holstein. Blunck was the preferred counselor for particularly serious cases. In spite of the First World War, the global economic crisis and the power struggle, she succeeded in leading the "welfare association Kieler Mädchenheim" into an important component of social work in Kiel and Schleswig-Holstein.

In the last years of life, Blunck increasingly looked after more feeble-minded women and housed needy women and girls. Because of the lack of space, she was looking for a larger building on the outskirts of the city. She was unable to implement these plans because of the lack of support from the National Socialists and the lack of funds and helpers.

Therese Blunck died during the Second World War Mitti June 1942. The girl home she set up was destroyed by bomb hits in 1944. Edit source text Standard data (person): Wikipedia person search

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