Hannelore Hansch

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Hannelore Hansch (born May 15, 1918 in Cologne , † November 17, 2007 in Karlsruhe-Durlach ) was a German Protestant clergyman , Jewish persecuted by the Nazi regime and a member of the Confessing Church .

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Hannelore Hansch (née Gebhardt) was the daughter of the factory director Dr. Fritz Gebhardt and his Jewish wife Thea. Hannelore visited after the elementary school , the Margrave-Gymnasium Karlsruhe-Durlach, where she was one of the first female graduates. She was deeply impressed by Karl Barth and Martin Niemöller and studied Protestant theology. After her father died and her mother emigrated to Switzerland, she lived with her husband, the farmer Kurt Hermann Hansch, on the Rittnerthof during the Nazi era . Her father bought it in 1933. At that time he had received compensation because in his managerial position marriage to a “full Jew” was no longer tolerated. At the Rittnerhof , Hannelore Hansch stood up for other Jewish victims of persecution - for example, she hid two Jewish women from Berlin from their persecutors. For those around the Swiss theologian Karl Barth and the " Badische Sozietät " she was a very respected host, reported in 2008 Gottfried Gerner-Wolfhard, who had been friends with her since the days of high school . In the 1930s she belonged to an opposition group that met in the Durlach apartment of the Karlsruhe judge Arthur Emsheimer, who was dismissed because of his Jewish origins. Her uncle Thomas Dehler , who would later become the Federal Minister of Justice , also sporadically participated in this .

Even after 1945, Hannelore Hansch continued to champion the positions and knowledge she had gained from the church struggle. In the political controversy over the plans to arm the Bundeswehr with nuclear weapons , which was attacked not only by the political left, but also by circles of the BK Brotherhood Council , it took sides for the outlawing of these weapons of mass destruction . Hansch forwarded the “Ten Theses” drawn up by her friend Karl Barth to the West German Brotherhoods, which they proposed to the EKD Synod, but which were not accepted by the latter.

She was a founding member of the Christian Peace Conference . She volunteered in the Society for Evangelical Theology, of which she later became an honorary member. Supporting all activities for more peace and justice remained an important concern until the end of their lives. In 2001 she was one of the signatories of an appeal by church people against the war in Afghanistan . When the Baden “Peace Ethics Forum” addressed its fellow Christians a year later with the demand to protest against all further wars, this also found their support.

Works

  • To Mrs. Hannelore Hansch, Rittnerthof near Karlsruhe. In Letters 1961-1968.

literature

  • Diether Koch : Christians in Political Conflicts, p. 121.
  • Hartmut Ludwig, Eberhard Röhm . Baptized Evangelical - persecuted as "Jews" . Calver Verlag Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-7668-4299-2 , pp. 144-145.
  • Angela Borgstedt: Hannelore Hansch (1918-2007) - a theologian from Karlsruhe hid two Jewish women. In: Angela Borgstedt et al. (Ed.): Courage proven. Resistance biographies from the southwest, Stuttgart 2017 ( S chriften political geography of Baden-Württemberg; 46), pp 313-320 ISBN 9783945414378 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kirchennetz.info/dek/start/detail.php?nr=2674&rubric=Home  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirchennetz.info  
  2. ↑ http://www.jum.baden-wuerttemberg.de/servlet/PB/menu/1213859/index.html?ROOT=1161446
  3. ↑ Diether Koch: The dispute over West German armaments in the Protestant Church
  4. ↑ http://www.gevth.de/erklaerungen/erklaerung_afghanistan.htm
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.friederle.de
  6. ↑ http://solomon.dkbl.alexanderstreet.com/cgi-bin/asp/philo/dkbl/search3t?dbname=barth&word=&CONJUNCT=PHRASE&DISTANCE=3&authorcode=&createyear=1968
personal data
SURNAME Hansch, Hannelore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 2007
Place of death Karlsruhe-Durlach