Herta Pammer

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Herta Pammer (born June 21, 1905 in Vienna ; † December 25, 1995 ), née Hiltl, was chairwoman of the Austrian Catholic women's movement from 1957 to 1978 and in 1958 the initiator of the Family Fast Day campaign . Her great-great-grandfather was the butcher and banker Josef Ettenreich , the lifesaver of Emperor Franz Joseph I during the attempted assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1853 .

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Training and volunteering

Pammer was born as the daughter of a colonel of the cavalry in the Common Army and spent the first years of life in various garrison towns of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy .

After the end of the First World War, the family moved to Innsbruck , where they, like their twin sister Eleonora Hiltl, graduated. She received a commercial training and from 1922 worked in publishing and as an accountant in a travel agency.

In 1935 she married the lawyer Maximilian Pammer and moved to Vienna, where her husband was employed in the Federal Chancellery and was entrusted with the observation of illegal National Socialists . After the National Socialists came to power, he was deported to the Dachau concentration camp from 1938 to 1939 and she had to look after her two sons, born in 1936 and 1937, on her own. As soon as he got back from the concentration camp, he was drafted into the German armed forces . In 1940 their daughter Elisabeth was born.

After the end of the war, she got involved in the development of active parish life in the St. Othmar parish in the 3rd district of Vienna and was ready to help build a nationwide women's movement, while her husband worked as an officer in the Ministry of the Interior with the development of the Austrian state police (today the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and counter-terrorism ).

In 1957 she was elected chairman of the Catholic women's movement in Austria and she held this office until 1978. At the same time she acted as diocesan leader of the Catholic women's movement in Vienna from 1957 to 1968.

Under her leadership, the Catholic Women's Movement Austria in 1971, the World Day of Prayer in which is the oldest ecumenical lay movement in about 180 countries, within the meaning of II. Vatican Council an ecumenical commitment calls all Catholics.

Development policy initiatives

Their commitment to development policy led to the introduction of the Family Fast Day campaign in 1958 to counter hunger and hardship in developing countries . The successful fundraising campaign was the first major church campaign against hunger in Europe at the time and, in addition to raising financial resources, was aimed at informing people in affluent countries, calling for people to renounce out of Christian charity and providing concrete help in developing countries to help them help themselves.

In addition to this, a scholarship campaign was decided to enable qualified academics from developing countries to study in Austria and for young people to undertake basic studies in their home countries.

She worked on a number of boards:

  • Coordination office of the Austrian Bishops' Conference for Development Promotion and Mission (initiative for the establishment and management from 1964 to 1982)
  • Austrian development aid concept on behalf of Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and 1971 establishment of the Development Policy Advisory Council
  • CIDSE (International Working Group for Development and Solidarity)
  • Justitia et Pax (Austria) (development and management from 1969 to 1986)
  • Afro-Asian Institute (cooperation from the foundation, commitment to interreligious dialogue)

Herta Pammer Prize

The prize has been awarded every two years since 1997 under the motto Women Promoting Women in recognition of the services of the namesake in the field of development promotion and women's education . The announcement takes place alternately for work from the fields of education, journalism and science. The total of the prizes awarded is 7,000 euros and is financed from the Family Fast Day campaign.

Awards and recognitions

Publications

  • The Austrian Catholic Women's Movement - Documents and Memories 1945 to the 1990s, Vienna 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edith Petschnigg : Herta Pammer and the Family Fast Day campaign - Catholic development policy in East and Southeast Asia
  2. ↑ Herta Pammer Prizes 2005 awarded with a detailed appreciation of Herta Pammer on the occasion of her 100th birthday, in: website of the Familienfasttag campaign
personal data
SURNAME Pammer, Herta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiltl Herta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chairwoman of the Catholic women's movement in Austria
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1995