Christa Jump

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Christa Springe (born December 12, 1926 in Stettin ) is a German Protestant pastor , social worker and ecumenical activist .

Life

As a young woman, Springe began to work in the Evangelical Academy of Bad Boll , where she was committed to the inclusion of women in a male-dominated society. The emphasis on gender equality in industrial and social work of the Evangelical Church was her life theme. She did not study Protestant theology until late . In 1966 she was ordained and called to be a pastor. She devoted herself to church industrial and social work in several places: in Witten , in Haus Villigst von Schwerte , in Bad Boll , at the Gossner mission in Mainz-Kastel and from 1970 in Mainz . She was a co-founder of the " European Working Group on Church and Work (ECG)" and the " Work and Economy Network in the European Churches (WEN)". She also took part in the preparation of the European Ecumenical Assemblies . She became the President of the Second Assembly that took place in Graz in 1997 .

Springe also participated in various church and social initiatives. From 1975 to 1989 she was part of the editorial team of the journal of the ecclesiastical brotherhoods of the Confessing Church (BK) “ The Voice of the Congregation ”. She was also a founding member of the “ Gustav Heinemann Initiative ” (GHI).

Christa Springe was married to Horst Symanowski in his second marriage.

Publications

  • Pioneer of church industrial and social work - Horst Symanowski is 85 years old , in: AMOS; Critical sheets from the Ruhr area, 4/1996, p. 18f.
  • The liberation of the human being from the alienation through economic and social developments and underdevelopments . Bremen: Sales Young Church, 1972
  • May 1st in the sermon , Cologne: Pahl-Rugenstein, 1978
  • Solidarity with the victims of apartheid , in: epd. Edition for ecclesiastical press No. 13 of March 25, 1987, p. 5f.
  • The Church and Man in the Modern Industrial World, in: Junge Kirche 33, 1972, p. 479ff.
  • Comments on the EKD study "Women in the family, church and society, on the life together of women and men" , in: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik, Volume 24, VerlagGütersloher Verlagshaus G. Mohn., 1980
  • An example of the unity of "Urban and Industrial Mission" , masch.Man., Mainz o. J.
  • Angelika Beier , Frank Spieth , Christa Springe (eds.): Alternative: Social Justice , Hamburg 2000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ev-akademie-boll.de/akademie/lesetipps/ Retrieved March 24, 2012
  2. ↑ http://bocs.hu/gintchsp.htm Retrieved March 24, 2012
  3. ↑ http://www.gustav-heinemann-initiative.de/wir/gruendungslösungen/ Retrieved March 24, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Jump, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Springe-Symanowski, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian, pastor and ecumenical activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin