Hildegard Schaeder

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Hildegard Schaeder (born April 13, 1902 in Kiel , † April 11, 1984 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German church historian. In 2000 she was posthumously honored as Righteous Among the Nations .

Life

Hildegard Schaeder was the fourth child of the professor for systematic theology Erich Schaeder and his wife Anna geb. Sellschopp (1867-1948). Her brothers were the orientalist Hans Heinrich Schaeder , the economist Reinhard Schaeder and the physicist and brain researcher Johann Albrecht Schaeder . She attended a private grammar school first in Kiel and later, after her father accepted a call from the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, in Breslau , where she passed the Abitur in 1920 as an external student. She then completed a degree in Classical and Slavic Philology , Eastern European History , Byzantine Studies and Philosophy at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Breslau and the University of Hamburg . At the University of Hamburg, she was also in 1927 when Richard Salomon with the work "Moscow, the third Rome - studies on the history of political theories of the Slavic world," the Dr. phil. PhD. In 1935 she started working as a research assistant in the publications department of the Secret Prussian State Archives in Berlin .

Hildegard Schaeder had already become a member of the Confessing Church in 1934 and from 1935 also worked actively in the Jesus Christ Congregation in Berlin-Dahlem , which was looked after by Martin Niemöller as pastor. A particular focus of her community work was looking after Jews who had been deported to the Lublin ghetto . Following a denunciation, Hildegard Schaeder was taken into “ protective custody ” on the morning of September 14, 1943 for “favoring fugitive Jews” and imprisoned in the prison on Alexanderplatz in Berlin . In the spring of 1944 she was transferred as a political prisoner to the Ravensbrück concentration camp , where she was liberated in 1945.

She then worked as a community helper in Mecklenburg until she went to Göttingen , where her mother and siblings lived after the war. From 1948 to 1970 she worked as a consultant for the Orthodox Churches of the East in the Foreign Office of the Evangelical Church in Germany in Frankfurt am Main. She also taught from 1965 to 1978 as an honorary professor for the history of the Eastern Churches at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Her grave is in the Oberrad forest cemetery in Frankfurt am Main.

Honors

In Frankfurt-Oberrad , a street in the new building district by the old cemetery is named after Hildegard Schaeder.

Publications

  • Moscow, the Third Rome - Studies on the History of Political Theories in the Slavic World ; Hamburg; 1929
  • The Third Coalition and the Holy Alliance - According to New Sources ; Koenigsberg, Berlin; 1934
  • Easter in the concentration camp ; Berlin; 1947
  • Russian Church and Eastern Christianity . Edited by Ernst Benz . With contributions by Hildegard Schaeder, Ludolf Müller , Robert Schneider. Tübingen 1949
  • Autocracy and the Holy Alliance ; Darmstadt, 1963
  • Impulses for the Evangelical-Orthodox encounter. Selected writings from 1949 to 1972, edited by Karl Pinggéra, Jennifer Wasmuth and Christian Weise. With a biographical introduction by Gisa Bauer ; Münster 2016 (Forum Orthodox Theology; 17)

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SURNAME Schaeder, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1984
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau