Gertrud Rückert
Gertrud Rückert (born April 22, 1917 in Oberaltertheim ; † December 31, 2011 in Munich ) was the founder of the Philadelphian Year (today: Voluntary Social Year ) and head of the Philadelphian Ring at the Augustinum .
Life
Gertrud Rückert was born as the daughter of a pastor on April 22, 1917 near Würzburg. She completed an economics training in Nuremberg and graduated as a qualified commercial teacher .
Their first marriage lasted less than six months, her husband Werner Halbach fell in Russia. In 1950 she married the Protestant pastor Georg Rückert . The couple had four children: Markus Rückert (* 1951, Chairman of the Augustinum in Munich), Barbara Basko (* 1953, Elementary School Vice-Principal in Munich), Johanna Haberer (* 1956, Professor of Christian Journalism in Erlangen) and Sabine Rückert (* 1961, deputy editor-in-chief at the time in Hamburg). Most recently, Gertrud Rückert lived in the Augustinum residential building in Munich-Neufriedenheim.
Act
Gertrud Rückert initially taught as a business teacher at the Begemann business school in Munich. Since 1956 she worked in the administration of the "Collegium Augustinum" founded by her husband in 1955 in Pasing , a boarding school for high school students and students of housekeeping and education .
With the opening of the first residential monastery founded by her husband, the Augustinum in Munich-Neufriedenheim, at the beginning of 1962, Gertrud Rückert initiated the Philadelphic Year ("Philadelphia": fraternal care for fellow human beings) as a social year. High school graduates were given the opportunity to gain practical work experience for a year - accommodation, meals and pocket money included; In addition, they were able to live free of charge in a student dormitory in the Augustinum for the first four semesters of study .
The idea of such a year for others was quickly accepted very well: At the turn of the year 1962/63, more than 20 young women were already working as so-called "Philas" in the Wohnstift. They were used in room service, in nursing, in the kitchen, pastry shop and restaurant and later also in the Augustinum clinic in Munich . The young women were also busy in their free time: choirs, creative courses and sports were also available, as were excursions to sights and exhibitions in Munich and Upper Bavaria .
In order to legally secure the Philadelphian Year, the association “Der Philadelphische Ring” was founded in 1966, of which Gertrud Rückert was until 1986 director. The association was merged into Augustinum gGmbH in 2010. His task is still valid today: "To awaken, realize and strengthen the Philadelphian spirit and the Philadelphic deed by giving young people the possibility of social service and promoting social care and welfare professions". The concept was new and successful at the time: just two years later, the Bundestag passed the “Law to Promote a Voluntary Social Year”, thereby defining the framework for an FSJ. Gertrud Rückert is probably the pioneer of the voluntary social year in Germany.
Overall, a wide range of diaconal work determined Gertrud Rückert's entire life. After the great earthquake in El Salvador in Central America in December 1986 , she and her husband provided construction and emergency aid and in the following years saw to the construction of a village with now 120 houses.
Awards and honors
literature
- Deborah Neuburger: A rhinoceros changes the social world. The history of the Rückert family in Pasing, founder of the famous Collegium Augustinum In: Pasinger Archive 22/2003, pp. 4–26
- Markus Rückert: Diakonie and Economy. Responsibility, financing, profitability Gütersloh 1990
- Times of man . Festschrift 25 years of the Collegium Augustinum. Munich 1979
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rückert, Gertrud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German founder of the Philadelphian Year (today: Voluntary Social Year) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberaltertheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 2011 |
| Place of death | Munich |