Basilea Schlink

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Basilea Schlink (* October 21, 1904 as Klara Schlink in Darmstadt ; † March 21, 2001 there ) was a German Protestant founder of the order .

After attending the Lyceum in Braunschweig and Darmstadt, she completed an apprenticeship at the Fröbelseminar in Kassel from 1923, and from 1924 at the Social Women's School of the Inner Mission in Berlin. In 1929 she became a teacher in the Malche Mission House in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) for German, psychology and church history. After passing a gifted test, she studied psychology , art history and philosophy in Berlin and Hamburg from 1930 . She completed her studies with a dissertation in the psychology of religion on “The importance of awareness of sin in religious struggles of female adolescents”.

On March 30, 1947, she and Erika Madauss founded the Protestant community of the Sisters of Mary in Darmstadt . In 1948 the two founders and the first seven sisters were dressed. From then on Klara Schlink called herself Mother Basilea and Erika Madauss became Mother Martyria. The Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary Darmstadt today has eleven branches worldwide with a total of 209 sisters, of which about 130 are in Darmstadt. After Erika Madauss' health deteriorated in the 1990s, Basilea Schlink drew more and more the leadership of the order.

In 1965, Basilea Schlink supported the “Aktion Sorge um Deutschland e. V. ", which, as a Protestant counterpart to the rather Catholic" Clean Screen Campaign ", saw the Christian order of values ​​in society endangered by revealing depictions of sexuality in the media.

Basilea Schlink was the sister of theology professor Edmund Schlink . Her father Wilhelm Schlink was a professor of mechanics. She was also the aunt of the writer Bernhard Schlink .

Works (selection)

  • Survivors' booklet , Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary, 1959
  • ... he is fighting right . 4th edition, Darmstadt 1969. (on so-called "diseases of sin")

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Knieß: Schlink, Klara (congregational name Mother Basilea). Stadtlexikon Darmstadt, accessed on May 30, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schlink, Basilea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlink, Klara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant founder of the order
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2001
Place of death Darmstadt