Helene Ramsauer

Helene Ramsauer (born August 26, 1905 in Rodenkirchen (Stadland) , † January 30, 2001 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Ramsauer grew up in the rectory of Rodenkirchen in the Wesermarsch . After her exams for elementary and middle schools in Oldenburg in 1925, studying religion, history and English for the higher teaching post in Heidelberg, Vienna and Marburg (among others with Dibelius , von Soden , Bultmann ) with a doctorate in history in 1929, she entered after the Legal clerkship in the school service in the middle school Hoya from 1933 to 1939. After a short episode in Kassel she taught at a girls' school in Eger as superior of the housekeeping department and deputy director until 1945 . In 1937 she became a member of the NSDAP . She left Hoya when she was forbidden to sing Christian Christmas carols in class. In 1945 she fled Eger to Oldenburg on foot and by bike.

From October 1, 1945, she was a lecturer at the Pedagogical Academy in Oldenburg . In 1956 she became one of the first female professors in the Federal Republic of Germany: for Protestant theology and religious education . It followed the more traditional approach of the Evangelical Instruction by Helmuth Kittel , which insisted on the connection between preaching and teaching. In the dispute with the reformer Martin Stallmann , she approached him. In 1973 she retired.

Ramsauer introduced the results of historical-critical theology into the study of religious education. Beyond the university area, she worked for many years in the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg and was the only woman member of the church leadership of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (1970–73). She advocated the 1966 Female Pastors Act, which gave married women equal access to the pastoral office.

Her cousin and role model was the adult education center teacher Bertha Ramsauer (1884–1947).

Her publications were limited to articles in magazines due to lack of time.

literature

• Klaus Wegenast , Heinz Grosch (ed.): Religious instruction on the way. Helene Ramsauer on her 65th birthday , Hamburg 1970
• Christine Reents: Helene Ramsauer (* 1905). Teacher with heart and soul in schools and universities , in: Annabelle Pithan (ed.): Religious pedagogues of the 20th century, Göttingen 1997, pp. 100–116 ISBN google online