Anni von Gottberg

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Clementine Elsbeth Anna von Gottberg , called Anni von Gottberg, née von Selchow ; (* May 7, 1885 in Karolinenthal in the Lauenburg district in Pomerania ; † July 9, 1958 in Hamburg ) was a member of the Brandenburg Provincial Council of Brothers of the Confessing Church .

Life

Anni von Selchow was born in a Prussian civil servant family in Pomerania; her parents were Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Konstantin von Selchow (* 1851) and Hedwig Johanna Wilhelmine, geb. Kratz (* 1851). Her grandfather Werner von Selchow was the Prussian Minister of Agriculture from 1862 to 1873.

Anni was first married to Hasso von Normann (born May 4, 1872 in Schierwenz , Stolp district ) since 1910 , with whom she had a son in 1917. After the divorce, she married Wolf von Gottberg in 1926 (* May 7, 1865 in Frankfurt an der Oder ; † September 10, 1938 in Potsdam ), senior councilor and district administrator a. D. She lived in Potsdam until 1955. Seriously ill, she moved to live with her son in Hamburg, where she died. Her grave is now in the traditional Bornstedt cemetery in Potsdam.

Services

Stamp of the Confessing Community of Potsdam with the motto " Teneo quia teneor "

Anni von Gottberg was a staunch opponent of National Socialism because of her Christian faith . In order to fill the Barmen Confessing Synod of May 1934 with life, she invited confessional members of Potsdam communities to her apartment on August 12, 1934. The Confessing Church in Potsdam and all of its organs arose from this meeting .

In December 1935, the Brandenburg Provincial Synod broke away from the previous association of the Berlin-Brandenburg Synod . The Berlin Brotherhood Council was more tactical and pragmatic and tried to avoid the last bit of sharpness in the church struggle. The Brandenburg Brothers Council, on the other hand, of which Kurt Scharf had been elected President , followed, in the spirit of the Confession Synods of Barmen and Dahlem, a theologically clear and church-political path.

Anni von Gottberg was the only woman to be a member of the brother council, which included well-known ecclesiastical laypeople and theologians. a. the sculptor Wilhelm Groß , the magistrate Lothar Kreyssig , the Dante researcher Friedrich Freiherr von Falkenhausen , the former Reichstag deputy Detlev von Arnim , the teacher Wolfgang Lindner from Brandenburg and the theologians Otto Dibelius , Heinrich Vogel , Günter Jacob and Erich Andler .

Anni von Gottberg campaigned for the Confessing Church with great consistency and straightforwardness. In the Confessing Church, too, male members still dominated at that time, although the practical work in the parishes was often carried out by women. Often men did not dare to officially become members of the Confessing Church because they did not want to endanger their office or their profession. It was not until the end of the war that women were allowed to preach in church services. Only later were ordained vicars allowed to be members of the congregational brother council by virtue of their office. Women were allowed to be commissioned with weddings and funerals in an emergency, they were not allowed to confirm. In this respect, Anni von Gottberg's equal participation in the Brandenburg Provincial Brotherhood Council was a specialty.

Even after 1945, Anni von Gottberg remained committed to her community in Potsdam.

Honors

In 1995 a street in the Kirchsteigfeld residential area in Potsdam was named after Anni von Gottberg.

On August 12, 2014, a memorial plaque was unveiled on Anni von Gottberg's former home at Weinbergstrasse 35, Potsdamer Jägervorstadt.

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SURNAME Gottberg, Anni von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES von Gottberg, Anna; Selchow, Klementine Elsbeth Anna von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German member of the Brandenburg Provincial Brotherhood of the Confessing Church
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Karolinenthal (Lauenburg)
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1958
Place of death Hamburg