Hélène Mariane Schweitzer

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from: http://www.albertschweitzer.info/helene.html

Hélène Bresslau was the daughter of a distinguished professor of history at Strasbourg University, who later became Chancellor. (Schweitzer jokingly called him “His Magnificence”)

Professor Bresslau was Jewish, but had his children baptised as Christians. He was not baptised himself, perhaps because he didn’t want to be accused of doing it for expediency.

Hélène was four years younger than Schweitzer. Her social conscience was almost as highly developed as Schweitzer's and in addition she had enthusiasm, efficiency, and a fine disregard of social convention. She worked among verminous children at a state orphanage. She helped to found and run a home for unmarried mothers, which was not at all a proper thing for nice young ladies to do. She was one of the first women skiers. She played the organ. At a time when young women were taking eagerly to emancipation all over northern Europe, she was as liberated a woman as Strasbourg could offer. And she had decided, like Schweitzer, that she must one day devote herself entirely to social service.

• Date/place of birth in Erich Woehlkens, Lisa Kuhlmann and Beate L Weiland, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Juden in Uelzen und in Nordostniedersachsen (1996), p. 135.
• Date and place of death in Woelkens et al., Beiträge', p. 239.
• At the age of seven she was baptized Protestant with her two brothers, although her parents were not baptized. See Wikipedia.
• Buried in Lambaréné, Gabun. See Wikipedia.
• Identified as daughter of Harry and Caroline Bresslau (née Isay) in Woelkens et al., Beiträge, p. 134.
• Identified as wife Albert Schweitzer in Woelkens et al., Beiträge', p. 135.
• Date of marriage in in Woelkens et al., Beiträge', p. 239.
• Daughter Rhena born in 1922. See Wikipedia. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Bresslau