Elisabeth Raiser

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Bertha Elisabeth Raiser (born August 18, 1940 in Zurich as Bertha Elisabeth Freiin von Weizsäcker ) is a German historian and linguist .

Career

She comes from the Palatinate - Württemberg family Weizsäcker and is the daughter of the German polymath Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007) and the Swiss historian Gundalena Wille (1908–2000). Her paternal uncle and also her godfather is the former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker . Raiser studied history and Romance studies at the University of Hamburg and the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen . In 1969 she did her doctorate in Hamburg on urban territorial policy in the Middle Ages .

Since March 1967 she has been married to the former general secretary of the World Council of Churches , Konrad Raiser . The marriage resulted in four sons. She has lived in Berlin with her husband since 2004. Her godson and cousin was the physician Fritz von Weizsäcker .

engagement

Elisabeth Raiser was a member of the executive board of the Presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress from 2001 to 2007 and was Evangelical President of the first Ecumenical Church Congress in Berlin in 2003 . She is part of the advisory board for the promotion, support and supervision of the Bible in Just Language project and was chairwoman of the Action Reconciliation Peace Services from April 2010 to April 2015 .

On October 1, 2014, she received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from Federal President Joachim Gauck .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The perpetrator wanted to take revenge on Richard von Weizsäcker's family. In: focus.de . November 20, 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
  2. The Federal President: Award ceremony on the Day of German Unity , October 1, 2014, last accessed on April 11, 2020.