Emma Horion was born on Emma Abeck: 8 September 1889 - 26 May 1982 and was a German representative of Catholic Women's Welfare in the Christian Women's Movement.
11 Facts About Emma Horion
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Emma Horion dedicated her life to the German Catholic Women's Association, focusing her activities on mothers' recuperation and convalescence.
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Emma Horion was twice widowed: she married Karl Kurten in 1911 and then for a second time in 1928.
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Emma Horion saw it as her task to back social equality for women through the women's movement of that time and, above all, through education.
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Emma Horion therefore raised the profile of mothers' recuperation and, from 1930, worked alongside the Catholic Working association for mother's welfare.
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Emma Horion was having to operate in the context of the aftermath of the First World War, and the problems with which mothers had to engage during this period.
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In 1930 the Catholic Working association for mother's welfare was founded in the archdiocese of Cologne, shortly after which Horion created the "National Working Association for Mothers' Convalescence".
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Emma Horion vigorously opposed Nazi race policies and several times found herself in conflict with the Gestapo, remaining true to her Christian principles.
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Emma Horion was detained for a time in the early 1940s because, it was said, of support she had given to Catholic priests.
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Emma Horion worked for many years as a volunteer for the organisation.
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Emma Horion is celebrated through the naming of a small street as "Emma-Horion-Weg" in the city's central Old town quarter.