Margarete Tietz

Margarete Caecilie Tietz (née: Dzialoszynski; born August 31, 1887, in Berlin; died February 26, 1972, in London) was a social activist, educator and patron of the arts in Cologne.

After war's end, the Tietz couple acquired the villa at Parkstraße 61 in Cologne-Marienburg, which had been built by Hervey Cotton Merrill in 1908.

[4][5][6][7] In 1925, Margarete Tietz was one of ten women named as delegates to the first Federation Day of the Prussian Regional Association of Jewish Communities (PLV).

[3] For a time, Margarete Tietz was a member of the social committee of the Prussian State Association of Jewish Communities.

[12] Hertha Kraus, a social scientist and Quaker who had also fled Cologne, asked Margarete Tietz to help move an old people's home for refugees from Europe from New York to Newark.

As she had done in Germany and the Netherlands, Margarete Tietz assisted sick and elderly citizens, especially refugees and survivors of the Holocaust.

[12] She founded the Margaret Tietz Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, where – similar to the Riehler Heimstätten housing project conceived by Hertha Kraus in Cologne – residents of different denominations could live in a complex with a residential home, nursing homes and a care area for people with physical and mental disabilities.

[14] Margarete Tietz was honored for her social actions on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the American Federation of Jews from Central Europe.

[14] In the United States, she founded the Margaret Tietz Foundation, which supported social projects for Jewish emigrants.

At the Bocklemünd Jewish Cemetery in Cologne, a memorial plaque on the Tietz family grave commemorates the couple Margarete and Alfred L.