Elisabeth Specht

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Elisabeth Specht

Elizabeth Specht (* 28. April 1912 in Beeskow ; † 23. November 2002 in Hanau ) was 1960, the first woman in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck , which ordained that got transferred was, and in 1962 the first woman here a parish ministry.

Life

Anna Elisabeth Specht was born in 1912 as the daughter of the draftsman Erich Specht and Marianne, nee. Trüschel, born in Beeskow in the Mark Brandenburg region. After graduating from high school in Neuzelle in what was then the district of Guben in 1931 , she initially worked as a private tutor for the Spiegel von Peckelsheim family , before training as a parish assistant at the Burckhard House Bible School in Berlin-Dahlem from 1937 to 1939 . Among the instructors were Otto Riethmüller and Helmut Gollwitzer . She then became regional youth secretary in the Protestant Church of Pomerania and worked in the Pasewalk parish from 1939 to 1942 and for the entire regional church from 1942 to 1948. As early as 1934 she joined the Confessing Church because she opposed the incipient harmonization of teaching and organization of the German Evangelical Church (DEK). In 1944 Elisabeth Specht began studying Protestant theology in Greifswald , which she continued in Tübingen and Manchester from 1948 to 1949 after the war in 1948 . Her teachers included Helmut Thielicke , Otto Bauernfeind , Otto Michel , Ernst Fuchs , Hanns Rückert , Adolf Köberle and Karl Fezer . In 1950 she passed the first theological exam in Tübingen and the second in 1952 in Stuttgart. She then worked as a vicar for almost a decade as a lecturer in the Burckhardthaus in Gelnhausen and also at the Stuttgart Youth Chamber of Protestant Youth in Germany .

On June 19, 1960, Elisabeth Specht was ordained as the first woman in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . She initially worked at the Hanau Kreuzkirche , in hospital pastoral care and as a religion teacher, but soon also as a substitute for a sick colleague at the Marienkirche in Hanau. When he left, she wanted to apply for the pastor's position, the church council made it clear that he wanted her, but the regional church office pointed out that canon law does not provide for a woman to be a parish pastor. However, the church council succeeded in persuading the regional synod to change the relevant church law . Then Elisabeth Specht was able to apply, received the position and, since May 31, 1962, was also the first woman to receive a parish priest position in her regional church. She stayed here until her retirement in 1982. Elisabeth Specht died on November 23, 2002 in Hanau. She is buried in the main cemetery in Hanau.

engagement

In addition to her parish work, Elisabeth Specht volunteered. So she headed the women's work of the Hanau church district and founded the Hanau telephone pastoral care in 1976 . Even after she retired, she was socially and charitable. In 1997 she processed her memoirs in a book: " She drew her street happily ", the title of which she modified from ( Acts 8,39c  LUT ) ("He drew his street happily").

honors and awards

In recognition of her services, on the occasion of her retirement in May 1982, she was appointed first church councilor of the Protestant regional church of Kurhessen-Waldeck.

Elisabeth Specht was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for her social commitment .

literature

Writings by Elisabeth Specht

  • Twenty years pastor at St. Mary's Church - biographical notes . In: Hen Donath (ed.): Marienkirche Hanau . Festschrift 1984, pp. 110-114.
  • But she moved her street happily. From the life of a pastor. = Contributions from the work of the Burckhardthaus 2nd 1st edition Gelnhausen 1997, 2nd edition 1998, ISBN 3931559416 .
  • "Come over and help us". A pastor in four continents . = Contributions from the work of the Burckhardthaus 3. Gelnhausen 1999.
  • Sound in the hand of the Creator. About dear people and good powers . Gelnhausen 2000.
  • An apartment tells. Dreams and realities . Gelnhausen 2001.
  • Of riches that moths and rust cannot eat: experiences from a ninety-year life . Gelnhausen 2003.

Writings about Elisabeth Specht

  • Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district ("Hanauer Union") until 1986, Part 1 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 33. Marburg 1984, p. 38.
  • Erhard Bus: Elisabeth Specht - Hanau's first parish priest . In: W.-A. Nail foundation; Hanauer History Association u. Magistrate of the City of Hanau (Ed.): Buried - but not forgotten. Well-known personalities at Hanau cemeteries. 2008, p. 143.
  • Jutta Degen-Peters: The “human fisherwoman” Elisabeth Specht . In: Ilse Werder : Hanau female: a reading book . Hanau 2006.
  • Dll .: First pastor of the regional church Elisabeth Specht celebrates her 90th birthday today in Hanau . FAZ-Rhein-Main-Zeitung, April 27, 2002, p. 76.
  • Hans Katzer: "The woodpecker is coming". Hanauer Anzeiger v. April 27, 2002, p. 22.
  • Jutta Taege-Bizer: Elisabeth Specht . In: Archive women's life in the Main-Kinzig district: arts, struggles, skills: women of a region. Gelnhausen 1994, pp. 48-52.
  • without author: a high distinction. Hanauer Anzeiger Vol. 257 No. 113 (May 17, 1982), p. 5.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aschkewitz.
  2. ↑ Specht: But she drew , p. 38ff; Aschkewitz.
  3. ↑ Specht: But she drew , pp. 49, 60.
  4. ↑ Aschkewitz.
  5. ↑ Specht: But she drew , p. 85.
  6. ↑ Aschkewitz.
  7. ↑ Specht: But she drew , p. 112.
  8. ↑ Specht: But she drew , p. 116.
  9. ↑ Specht: But she drew , p. 136.
personal data
SURNAME Woodpecker, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Beeskow
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 2002
Place of death Hanau