Hannelotte Reiffen
Johanna Charlotte "Hannelotte" Reiffen (born October 10, 1906 in Bonn ; † May 30, 1985 there ) was a German Protestant theologian . She was one of the first two women to be ordained in Germany .
Life
From 1926 Reiffen studied Protestant theology in Marburg , Rostock and Bonn (where she was a student of Karl Barth ) and passed her first theological exam in 1932 at the Evangelical Consistory in Koblenz. As a vicar she joined the Confessing Church and in the spring of 1935 passed her second theological exam before the Brothers' Council of the Rhenish BK. She then took on temporary services in Worbis and individual communities in the Province of Brandenburg. From the end of 1940 she was able to represent a parish priest in Illmersdorf / Mark and worked in the Brandenburg Brotherhood Council. In protest against a resolution of the Synod of the Confessing Church in Hamburg in 1942 to reserve unrestricted ordination for men, the President and later Bishop Kurt Scharf ordained them on January 12th together with Ilse Härter to serve the word and sacrament. Reiffen stayed in Illmersdorf until 1947 and then took over a pastor's position in Groß Neuendorf im Oderbruch . Here she repeatedly came into conflict with the GDR authorities . After her retirement in 1967 she moved back to Bonn and was involved in the peace movement and in the circle around Walter Kreck . She also worked on the edition of the works of her teacher Barth.
Publications (as editor)
- with Hans-Georg Geyer and Bertold Klappert : acquittal and freedom. Theological essays for Walter Kreck on his 65th birthday. Kaiser, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-459-00860-1 .
- Christians and Marxists in our society today. Walter Kreck on his 75th birthday. Festschrift. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-7609-0768-7 .
- Karl Barth: Lessons in the Christian religion. Volume 1: Prolegomena 1924 (= Karl Barth: Gesamtausgabe. 2: Academic works. Teaching in the Christian religion. Vol. 1). Theological Publishing House, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-290-16209-5 .
literature
- Peter Bukowski , Horst Leske, Eberhard Mechels (eds.): There is no fear in love. Festschrift for Hannelotte Reiffen. With a foreword by Helmut Gollwitzer . Linguistica Biblica, Bonn 1974, ISBN 3-87797-000-1 .
- Birgitt Jähnichen, Traugott Jähnichen : Reiffen, Hannelotte. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 1511-1512.
- Birgitt Jähnichen, Traugott Jähnichen: Obedience and contradiction. The life path of the theologian Hannelotte Reiffen (= writings of the Hans-Ehrenberg-Gesellschaft. Vol. 2). Spenner, Waltrop 1996, ISBN 3-927718-69-6 .
- Ilse Härter : Reiffen, Hannelotte. In: Hannelore Erhart (ed.): Lexicon of early Protestant theologians. Biographical sketches. Neukirchener Verlags-Haus, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2005, ISBN 3-7975-0081-5 , p. 308.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hannelotte Reiffen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reiffen, Hannelotte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reiffen, Johanna Charlotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1985 |
| Place of death | Bonn |