Mechtild Schröder

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Mechtild Schröder (also sometimes written Mechthild Schröder ; * March 8, 1932 in Kassel ; † January 14, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and Baptist deaconess . For more than 16 years she headed the Evangelical-Free Church Diakoniegemeinschaft Bethel (Berlin) as superior . For twelve years she was a member of the federal government , the highest governing body of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany .

Life

After graduating from high school, Mechtild Schröder studied at the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and received her doctorate there in 1962 with a thesis on high elasticity . Following her studies, she completed her specialist training as an anesthetist in Berlin . During this time she made contact with the Evangelical Free Church Community of Lichterfelde-Ost and joined it. Only a short time later she joined the Bethel Sisterhood founded by Eduard Scheve in 1887 and was preparing for her mission as a missionary doctor. Under the auspices of the European Baptist Federation , she traveled to northern Cameroon in 1969, where she worked as a doctor up to and including 1971. A detailed report on their activities there is available in the regional church archive in Stuttgart.

After her return from Africa and a three-month travel service with which she campaigned for German Baptist congregations to support medical work in Northern Cameroon, Mechtild Schröder initially practiced as a general practitioner. In 1975 she sent the Bethel Deaconess House to Welzheim . There, the Evangelical Free Church Diakoniewerk had acquired the former district hospital of the Rems-Murr district and commissioned Mechtild Schröder with restructuring the facility into a specialist clinic for geriatric medicine and then with the management of the clinic. Her tasks also included setting up a free church diakonia station. Today the hospital works under the name Geriatric Rehabilitation Clinic Bethel Welzheim . Attached to it is a senior citizens' center, which was inaugurated in 1980, and a nursing service. During her time in Welzheim, Sr. Mechtild was appointed to the leadership of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches . She held this office from 1975 to 1986.

After the development work in Welzheim, Mechtild Schröder was appointed Superior of the Bethel Sisterhood in 1981. So she was also a board member of the Diakoniewerk and the Diakoniegemeinschaft. During her time as the leading deaconess, some significant expansions were made to the Bethel Diakoniewerk. In 1984, for example, the Bethel retirement home opened its doors on Morgensternstrasse in Berlin. In 1991 the Diakoniestation Bethel started in Berlin-Friedrichshain as the first institution of its kind in the eastern part of Berlin. In 1994, senior centers in Friedrichshain and Köpenick , which had previously been under different sponsorship, were taken over by Bethel. A year later, the Steglitz boys' home , initiated by Peter Dienel and others in the 1950s, was accepted into the Bethel Diakonieverband.

The outpatient Diakonie-Hospiz Wannsee was founded in Berlin-Zehlendorf on October 1, 1996 on the initiative of Mechtild Schröder (Diakoniegemeinschaft Bethel) and Oberin Helga Heß (Evangelischer Diakonieverein Berlin-Zehlendorf eV).

In 1997 Mechtild Schröder retired, but continued to work voluntarily in various diaconal areas at home and abroad. For example, on behalf of the European Baptist Federation, it supported the establishment of health and social care in Georgia as well as in the Polish city of Lodz . In the south-west of Berlin, she helped to set up and expand the Bethel Hospice Van-Delden, the establishment of which reached back into her active time as superior.

Mechtild Schröder died after a short, serious illness.

Publications (selection)

  • Preface. In: Wolfgang Lorenz: "... and gives life to the world". Diakonie as an expression of the gospel in life (= free church contributions to theology. Volume 2: Diakonie ). Preface by Gerd Rudzio. WDL-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-932356-13-6 .
  • Comparative presentation of perinatal medicine in Chile and the Federal Republic of Germany and their background (dissertation). Münster (Westphalia), Univ., Diss., 1991, DNB 920382932 .
  • Ethical norms in nursing. In: German nursing journal. Issue 7/1985, ISSN  0012-074X , pp. 464-466.
  • The elasticity high pressure. Critical statistical and cycle analysis investigations (dissertation). Erlangen-Nürnberg, Med. Fak., Diss. From December 20, 1962, DNB 481895159 .

literature

  • Angelika Behm, Günther Hierath: We mourn the loss of deaconess Dr. Mechthild Schröder. In: Friend's letter of the Förderverein Diakonie-Hospiz Wannsee e. V. Berlin, April 2010, p. 4 ( diakonie-hospiz-wannsee.de ( Memento from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )).
  • Diakoniegemeinschaft Bethel. Berlin: Senior Superior Deaconess Dr. Mechtild Schröder passed away. Press release. January 20, 2010 ( bethelnet.de [PDF; 76 kB]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Angelika Behm, Günther Hierath: We mourn deaconess Dr. Mechthild Schröder. In: Friend's letter of the Förderverein Diakonie-Hospiz Wannsee e. V. Berlin, April 2010, p. 4 ( diakonie-hospiz-wannsee.de ( Memento from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on July 21, 2017]).
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Rösler / BEFG: Sister Mechtild Schröder is dead. Mourning the Altoberin in the Diakoniewerk and -gemeinschaft Bethel. In: baptisten.de. January 20, 2010, accessed May 6, 2016.
  3. ^ University and State Library of Tyrol: Nominal catalog 1500 to 1988. In: uibk.ac.at, accessed on May 6, 2016.
  4. ↑ The data and facts in this section are based on Bethelnet (unless otherwise stated). -
    Board of Directors of Diakoniewerk and Diakoniegemeinschaft Bethel: Mourning in Diakoniewerk and Diakoniegemeinschaft Bethel, Berlin: Senior Superior Diakonisse Dr. Mechtild Schröder passed away. Press release. January 20, 2010 ( bethelnet.de [PDF; 76 kB, accessed on July 21, 2017]).
  5. ↑ a b Klaus Rösler: Sister Mechtild Schroeder has passed away. In: ebf.org. January 25, 2010, accessed May 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ State Church Archive Stuttgart. Repertories / archive inventory: K31 - German Institute for Medical Mission (DIFÄM files). 1836-2007. Edited by Jakob Eisler, Siglind Ehinger and Senta Herkle; Editor: Siglind Ehinger. Landeskirchliches Archiv, Stuttgart 2014, DNB 1051984483 , p. 150, no.543 .
  7. ↑ So the name of the carrier until 1976; after 1976 the plant operated under the name Diakoniewerk Bethel e. V. See Our Chronicle - The Most Important Years. In: bethelnet.de, accessed on May 9, 2016 (see 1976).
  8. ↑ Geriatric Rehabilitation Clinic Welzheim. In: bethel.net, accessed on May 9, 2016.
  9. ^ Antoine Vergne: In memoriam Peter Dienel. 1923-2006. ( Memento from May 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: planungszelle.de. May 20, 2008, accessed May 9, 2016.
  10. ↑ For the dates in this section, see Our Chronicle - The Most Important Years. In: bethel.net, accessed on May 9, 2016 (see under 1981–1995).
  11. ↑ There is something to celebrate: 20 years of the outpatient Diakonie-Hospiz Wannsee. In: immanuel.de. August 4, 2016. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
  12. ↑ In the title of the article you can find Schröder's first name in the spelling Mechthild; in the article itself it is first called Mechtild, then Mechthild .
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Mechtild
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schröder, Mechthild
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and Baptist deaconess
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2010
Place of death Berlin