Barbara von Richthofen

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Barbara Freiin von Richthofen , called "Sister Barbara" (born April 17, 1919 in Militsch / Silesia ; † January 3, 2019 in Bethel ), was a German deaconess and from 1975 to 1984 head of the deaconess mother house Sarepta ( Von Bodelschwinghsche Stiftungen Bethel ).

Life

Her parents were Gotthard Freiherr von Richthofen (1888–1969) and Dürili, nee. Steinberg (1890-1981). Her younger siblings were Brigitte von Kalm, geb. Freiin von Richthofen (1920–2002), and Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen (1922–1943), who was missing as a lieutenant in Stalingrad. She grew up in Riemberg, district of Goldberg / Lower Silesia.

Influenced in particular by her grandmother Therese von Richthofen, who introduced her grandchildren to the faith with a picture Bible, and the sister of the village pastor Heuser, she went to the Evangelical Clinic Bethel (Gilead) as a helper in 1937 at the age of 18 . In 1940 she was accepted as a deaconess student in Bethel and passed her exam as a nurse in 1944 . At the beginning of 1945, towards the end of the war, she worked as a hospital nurse in Iserlohn (Bethanien Hospital) for a few months . Because she was used in the hospital, she was declared a prisoner of war at the end of the war . Back in Bielefeld, she became the head nurse of the Gilead I and II hospitals in 1968.

Then she returned to Bethel, where she became a teaching nurse; from 1946 to 1955 she headed the nursing school at the Lübbecke district hospital and then the nursing school at the Sarepta hospitals in the Gilead Bethel Children's Hospital . In the meantime she was consecrated as a deaconess in 1947 . From 1967 to 1968 she attended the sister university of the Diakonie in Berlin-Zehlendorf . From 1975 to 1984 she was the head of the deaconess mother house Sarepta after being elected by the deaconess convention.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richthofen, Barbara Freiin v. <1919>. In: Bibliography of the literature by and about Richthofen name bearers. P. 5; As of October 31, 2010.
  2. ^ The Richthofen family association: Flight, expulsion and new beginning. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Former Sarepta manager is 90 years old. From Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel, April 17, 2009.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Sabine Schulze: New Westphalia sheet series for the Bethel anniversary. Episode 1: Sister Barbara (97) came to Bethel Westfalen-Blatt 80 years ago on January 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Richthofen, Barbara von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richthofen, baroness Barbara von (noble name); Sister Barbara (church name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German deaconess and head of the deaconess mother house Sarepta
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Militsch , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 3rd January 2019
Place of death Bethel