Gertrud Spörri

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Gertrud Spörri (* December 8, 1894 in Bäretswil , † July 16, 1968 in Rüti ZH ) was a Swiss theologian , co-founder and first priestess of the Christian Community , later an employee of the ICRC .

Life

Gertrud Spörri grew up with a sister and a brother in the Zurich Oberland . Her father ran a small weaving mill, where she soon helped out as a secretary.

She got to know anthroposophy through the sister of her (short-term) fiancé and often traveled to Dornach on the weekends off . Between 1918 and 1920 she made up her Matura at a private school and began studying (Protestant) theology in Basel.

She was one of the first theology students who asked Rudolf Steiner for advice on a connection between theology and anthroposophy. In 1921 she met Johannes Werner Klein and now worked fully to found the Christian Community, where she worked as a priestess from 1922 to 1933 (from 1929 as "Oberlenkerin") first in Stuttgart , later in Munich and St. Gallen .

When she joined Herman Weidelener , a fellow priest who had changed the cultic forms from (in his opinion) higher insight, she was dismissed from her offices by Friedrich Rittelmeyer , whereupon she resigned from the Christian community.

Later she worked in various social activities, first in Germany, then from 1939 in Switzerland, including for the International Committee of the Red Cross and in a tuberculosis sanctuary. After hip surgery, she died at the age of 73 from complications from a thrombosis near her birthplace.

Fonts

As an author

  • The woman in the priestly profession. Publishing house of the Christian Community, Stuttgart 1929.
  • The woman at the altar. Publishing house of the Christian Community, Stuttgart 1931.
  • The disciple. Typescript, Augsburg 1934.
  • The divine destiny of man. Manu, Augsburg 1948.
  • The tuberculosis patient in the sanatorium. (Praxis der Individualfürsorge, Volume 3.) Raunhardt, Zurich 1953.
  • Original revelations of love in the becoming of humanity. Rose, Munich 1965.

As editor

  • Heinrich Zschokke : A self-examination. Fate and man. Edited by Gertrud Spörri. Swiss book lovers, Zurich 1939.
  • Max Huber : The International Red Cross. Idea and reality. Selected from speeches and essays and ed. by Gertrud Spörri. Niehans, Zurich 1951.

literature

  • Rudolf F. Gädeke: Gertrud Spörri , in: Die Gründer der Christengemeinschaft , Verlag am Goetheanum (Pioneers of Anthroposophy 10), Dornach 1992, pp. 98-109

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personal data
SURNAME Spörri, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian, priestess and social worker
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bäretswil
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1968
Place of death Rüti ZH