Personal Life
Handballer Ulrike Stange is the girlfriend of Per Mertesacker.
In November 2006, Mertesacker created the "Per Mertesacker Foundation". This foundation was created to support the widow of Robert Enke, and is targeted at those suffering from depression. Under this foundation Mertesacker created a football team called "Mertesacker & Friends" who, yearly, played charity matches to help support their cause. The first charity match took place on 9 June 2007 between "Mertesacker & Friends" and the "Pocher Comedian Allstars" in Rudolf Kalweit stadium, in Hanover. In 2008 and 2009 matches were played against a team called "Philipp Lahm & Friends", a team created and chosen by Philipp Lahm. In 2011 they played against "Gastrokicker-Nord".
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“Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters ‘woman’s peculiar sphere,’ her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)