Barbara Rotraut Pleyer

Barbara Rotraut Pleyer , also Sara-Rotraut Fatima Sina-Moria , (born 1929 ; died March 2000 in Nicosia ) was a German political activist.

Life

Barbara Rotraut Pleyer was a daughter of the National Socialist history professor and activist Kleo Pleyer , who voluntarily took part in the campaign against the Soviet Union as a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht in 1941 and died in Russia in 1942. She had several siblings. Her uncle was the writer Wilhelm Pleyer , who worked in the right-wing extremist National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) in the Federal Republic .

Pleyer studied law in Tübingen and received his doctorate. In 1952 she went to Helsinki for the Summer Olympics on her own initiative . At the opening ceremony, draped in a long, white robe, she managed to gain access to the speaker's podium, where she picked up the microphone to announce a prepared peace roll call. This was prevented by Erik von Frenckell and the police. The press photos of the incident with the arrested blonde woman in a long white robe were printed under the title Angel of Peace , and one photo made it to the front page of the New York Times . On December 24, 1953, their appearance in East Berlin's Marienkirche was prevented.

Having become famous, she continued her private peace campaign in the following years, gave lectures, demonstrated at the zone border against the political conditions in the GDR and met the pacifist Martin Niemöller . Since 1959 she has received organizational and financial support from the head of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) Reinhard Gehlen . The contact between the two was mediated by Chancellery State Secretary Hans Globke and Jesuit Father Robert Leiber .

Pleyer traveled to China for talks with statesmen like Mao Zedong , to Nasser in Egypt, where she was also allowed to give lectures at Cairo University, to Nehru in India, to Sukarno in Indonesia, to Faisal in Saudi Arabia. The Italian couturier Emilio Schuberth donated a robe to her.

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome , she planned to appear at the closing event, which, despite Gehlen's support, did not materialize. A summit meeting she had arranged for the statesmen she had contacted on Mount Sinai was also not held. The expenses of these activities were borne by the BND.

Pleyer then turned briefly to Catholicism and announced that he would enter a monastery. Instead, she found enlightenment in yoga and was now called Sara-Rotraut Fatima Sina-Moria . She studied medicine and received her doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1974 .

The Dutch filmmaker Niek Koppen planned a report about Pleyer's life in 2000, but that never happened, Pleyer died beforehand in a hotel in Cyprus .

Fonts

• Gopi Krishna : Kundalini. Awakening the spiritual strength in people . Translation from the English Sinai RB Pleyer and Ursula von Mangoldt . Weilheim: OW Barth, 1968
• Sara-Rotraut Fatima Sina-Moria: Abdominal discomfort in psychoses from the schizophrenic and the cycothymic circle of forms . Dissertation, Bonn, 1974
• Rotraut Sinai-Moria: Abba . In: Heinz M. Bleicher (ed.): The man who means peace: encounters, texts, images for Schalom Ben-Chorin . On the occasion of his 70th birthday in July 1983 . Gerlingen: Bleicher, 1983 ISBN 3-88350-227-8 , pp. 132-134

literature

• Niek Koppen: De Vredesengel , in: NRC Handelsblad , September 14, 2000
• Willi Winkler : Der gekaufte Engel , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 30, 2017, p. 55

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to the company's own information on February 19 of the same year in Berlin, so the Niedersachsen-Sport on July 21, 1952, pages 1 and 2. Göttingen is named as the place of study: "Blitz interview with the Göttingen student who comes from Berlin" .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Barbara Rotraut Pleyer . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1964 ( online ).
3. ↑ Barbara Pleyer . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1954 ( online ).
4. ↑ Niek Koppen in the Internet Movie Database (English) Literature by and about Niek Koppen in the bibliographic database WorldCat