Elisabeth Haseloff

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Elisabeth Haseloff (born June 30, 1914 in Rome , † November 29, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a German pastor in Lübeck . She was the first woman in Germany to work as an Evangelical Lutheran pastor within the meaning of the law .

Life

Elisabeth Haseloff was born in Rome as the daughter of the art historian Arthur Haseloff and sister of Günther Haseloff . She spent her school days in Kiel , where she graduated from high school in 1934. In the following year she joined the Confessing Church and studied Protestant theology in Tübingen , Erlangen and Kiel. She passed her first theological exam in 1939; the second followed in 1941. She was the first woman with this exam in the Schleswig-Holstein regional church .

Elisabeth Haseloff was then ordained as parish vicar and worked in this capacity in Büdelsdorf . With the first and second theological exams she had the qualification for the pastor's office, but she was only employed as a parish vicar and accordingly paid less. In 1942 she received her doctorate in Münster with the dissertation The Christology of the New Testament texts of the Last Supper .

After the end of the Second World War , Evangelical Lutheran clergy returned to their offices from military service and imprisonment. Elisabeth Haseloff was in danger of being forced out of office. However, she was supported by the church council of her community and remained active as a parish vicar.

It was not until the West German law on equality between men and women , which came into force on July 1, 1958, that women in Germany were gradually given the way to the pastoral profession by the regional churches, albeit initially only to the extent that they were single. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck passed a church law on September 1, 1958 , which made it possible to set up a post for cross-community women’s work. It should be filled with an unmarried theologian. Elisabeth Haseloff received this post; she was also for a parish of St. Matthäi in Lübeck-St. Lorenz responsible.

The occupation of a pastor's position with a woman caused a sensation nationwide, which led the regional church to state that this should by no means be done in principle.

In 1958 Elisabeth Haseloff was also elected to the synod; From 1959 until her death in 1974 she headed the Evangelical Women's Work in Lübeck. In 1970 the Synod of the North Elbian Church elected her as vice-president.

Together with other theologians, she published the magazine Die Theologin and the circular of the Convention of Protestant Theologians in the Federal Republic of Germany . Together with Christine Bourbeck and Marianne Timm , she wrote expert opinions for the convent, in which the equal rights of women as pastors were demanded. They were only allowed to exercise their office until they were married. The reports were published in a special issue of the journal Die Theologin in March 1963 under the title “The Theologian in the Service of the Evangelical Church” .

Elisabeth Haseloff died in 1974 as a result of an accident in Eppendorfer Hospital. On the way to a meeting of the North Elbe Synod in Winterhude, she was hit by a car while crossing a pedestrian crossing and seriously injured.

Honors

In 1993 the life and work of Elisabeth Haseloff became part of the 850th anniversary of Lübeck with the exhibition “The woman is no longer silent” - how the office of the theologian is recognized in reality . The Hanseatic City of Lübeck honored Elisabeth Haseloff in 2005 as part of the exhibition Women in Lübeck History , whose patronage was Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter , bishop for the Holstein-Lübeck district; As the third bishop in Germany, she was another pioneer as an Evangelical Lutheran theologian. The city of Lübeck named a street in Lübeck-St. After Elisabeth Haseloff . Jurgen . In 2014, on the occasion of Haseloff's 100th birthday, the Evangelisches Frauenwerk commemorated the pastor with a communion service under the title “Women on the Way” in St. Petri in Lübeck. In 2015, the Elisabeth Haseloff Foundation was founded in Lübeck, which provides financial support to pregnant women in need.

literature

  • Christine Lipp: Dr. Elisabeth Haseloff - First pastor “in the sense of the law” of the Evangelical Church in Germany in Women in Lübeck History Women's Office of the City of Lübeck (Ed.), Lübeck 2005, pages 62 to 63.
  • Rudolf Hinz: Vote on Elisabeth Haseloff , in: Karl Ludwig Kohlwage , Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (ed.): “What he tells you, it does!” The reconstruction of the Schleswig-Holstein regional church after the Second World War. Documentation of a conference in Breklum 2017 . Compiled and edited by Peter Godzik , Rudolf Hinz and Simeon Schildt, Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-7868-5307-7 , pp. 110–113.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Treplin: Sermon for the ordination of Elisabeth Haseloff , 1941 (online at geschichte-bk-sh.de) .
  2. ↑ Rainer Hering: Women in the pulpit? The long road to legal equality ( memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fachpublikation.de
  3. ↑ online at theologinnenkonvent.de
  4. ↑ Biogram Christine Bourbeck (online at Frauen-und-reformation.de)
  5. ↑ Frauenwerk reminds of Elisabeth Haseloff . In: Lübecker Nachrichten of June 29, 2014, p. 14
  6. ↑ New contact point to help pregnant women in need . In: Lübecker Nachrichten , August 9, 2015, p. 12
  7. ↑ Biogram Rudolf Hinz (online at nordschleswigwiki.info)
personal data
SURNAME Haseloff, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first female pastor in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1974
Place of death Hamburg , Federal Republic of Germany