Hilde Schneider (pastor)

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Hilde Charlotte Schneider (born November 12, 1916 in Hanover ; † January 24, 2008 in Kronberg im Taunus ) was a German nurse who was a victim of the Nazi persecution of Jews because of her origins and who later worked as a Protestant pastor.

Life

Schneider grew up as the daughter of a doctor in a Protestant family. In 1934 she was expelled from the Sophia School in Hanover due to her Jewish descent before graduation . Instead of the planned medical studies, she decided to train as a nurse and on January 2, 1935 entered the deaconess institution of the Henrietten Foundation as a pre-trial nurse . When the Henriettenstiftung was ruled by the National Socialists four years later, however, it was urged to resign as a deaconess without exams and before being consecrated . She was able to take the exam at the Jewish Hospital in Hanover and in the "Lydiahof", a home for single women and girls on Hinüberstrasse. 19, find accommodation. She was arrested by the Gestapo on December 10, 1941 and deported four days later on the first transport from Hanover to the Riga ghetto . After its dissolution in April 1943, she was transferred to the Kaiserwald concentration camp near Riga and then to the Thorn subcamp belonging to the Stutthof concentration camp , where she was liberated by the Russian army in February 1945.

After returning to her hometown, she caught up with her high school diploma and passed an exam as a church worker. At the University of Göttingen she began studying theology in 1946, which she was able to complete in 1953, interrupted by several hospital stays. Because women were not yet ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover at that time , she first became vicarious assistant in Bremerhaven . From there she moved in 1959 to the position of a prison chaplain in the women's prison in Frankfurt-Preungesheim . In 1973 she took early retirement for health reasons, which she spent at the Altkönig monastery in Kronberg. She was buried in the Salemsfriedhof of the Henriettenstiftung in Hannover-Kirchrode .

reception

In 2007 the Henriettenstift named a care and therapy center after Hilde Schneider. In 2014 a stumbling block was laid for them in Hinüberstrasse . In 2015, the city of Hanover named Elkartallee in Südstadt in Hilde-Schneider-Allee.

literature

  • Hartmut Schmidt: Hilde Schneider. In: Heike Köhler, Dagmar Herbeck, Hannelore Erhart u. a. (Ed.): So close to heaven, so far to the rectory. First Protestant theologians in spiritual office. Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1966, ISBN 3-7887-1576-6 , pp. 129-131.
  • Hartmut Schmidt: Between Riga and Locarno. Report on Hilde Schneider, Christian of Jewish origin, deaconess, ghetto and concentration camp inmate, prison pastor. Wichern, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88981-124-8 .
  • Julia Berlit-Jackstien: The deportation of the Christian woman of Jewish origin Hilde Schneider to the Riga ghetto. In: Julia Berlit-Jackstien, Karljosef Kreter (Hrsg.): Abgeschoben in den Tod. The deportation of 1001 Jewish Hanoverians on December 15, 1941 to Riga. Hansche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2011, pp. 242–257.
  • Hanna Kreisel-Liebermann: Pastor Hilde Schneider (1916–2008). In: FrauenIMPULSE. Information from the Landesfrauenrat Niedersachsen eV 2015 , p. 16 f

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personal data
SURNAME Tailor, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Hilde Charlotte (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nurse and Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2008
Place of death Kronberg im Taunus