Gisela Wiese
Gisela Wiese (born May 29, 1924 in Berlin , † April 30, 2010 in Hamburg ) was a German civil rights activist .
Life
Gisela Wiese spent her childhood with her grandparents, who, as staunch Protestants in the spirit of the Confessing Church, helped Jews against the National Socialists. The Gestapo murdered the grandfather. Gisela Wiese trained as a hoarder. Shaped by the memories of the Shoah and National Socialism , after moving to Hamburg, she became involved in helping those persecuted by National Socialism and accompanied the witnesses in the Hamburg trials against concentration camp guards.She founded the Auschwitz Committee in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1986 . V. with and observed the trials against RAF members. Converted to Catholicism after the war, she was vice-president of the German section of the international Catholic peace movement Pax Christi from 1990 to 2000 , and honorary president since 2000. In her engagement she sought the side of the victims. So when she publicly pondered military intervention in the Balkan War in 1995 , one of the most violent confrontations at Pax Christi since the movement was founded broke out. As a contemporary witness, Wiese warned of new forms of nationalism and right-wing extremism in many events and school visits, lectures and church services .
Gisela Wiese was the director of a kindergarten in Hamburg.
literature
- Gegenwelten, Festschrift Gisela Wiese, Idstein 1994, ISBN 978-3929522136
- Wilfried Köpke (ed.): A life against false reconciliation, CH-Luzern 1997, ISBN 978-3905577211
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilfried Köpke : Friedensstandpunkt or Friedensbewegung, in: Orientation, Zurich 61 (1997) pp. 70–72
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiese, Gisela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 2010 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |