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Ilse Härter (born January 12, 1912 in Asperden on the Lower Rhine; † December 28, 2012 in Moyland ) was a German Protestant theologian. She was one of the first two women to be ordained in Germany.

Life

Härter grew up in the country as the middle one of the sisters Luise and Edith. Her parents made it possible for her to attend high school. After graduating from high school in Kleve in 1931, Ilse Härter studied Protestant theology in Göttingen , Tübingen , Königsberg and Bonn . Since she had already joined the Confessing Church in 1934 , she took her exams in 1936 and 1939 before the Examination Board of the Confessing Church. When she was to be consecrated as vicar in Wuppertal - Elberfeld in 1939 because ordination was to be reserved for men (also in the Confessing Church) , she refused to do so with the now famous sentence: “Tell the presbytery: I will not be present for my consecration In 1941 she also refused to take the oath on Adolf Hitler , which led to her being dismissed from the service of the Berlin-Wannsee community . As pastor's administrator for Günther Harder in Fehrbellin (1941) and for Hermann Diem in Ebersbach an der Fils (since 1942), she managed to get ordained together with Hannelotte Reiffen by Kurt Scharf in Sachsenhausen in 1943 . These were the first and for a long time the only fully valid ordinations of women in Germany.

After the Second World War, Härter returned to the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland in 1945 and worked as a school and vocational school pastor in Leverkusen and Elberfeld until she retired in 1972 . Her work focused on reconciliation, ecumenism and feminist theology .

After her retirement, she volunteered for justice, peace and the integrity of creation. In her retirement, Härter published numerous works on the history of women theologians in Germany, in particular the history of the Vicar Nomination Committee of the Confessing Church. The Church University of Wuppertal awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2006 .

On the occasion of her 100th birthday, Maria Jepsen wrote about her in the greeting in the festschrift: "Ilse Härter is one of the great mothers, or more correctly: the sisters of Protestant theologians in Germany and around the world".

On January 12, 2013, a funeral service for the 101st birthday and 70th anniversary of the ordination of the pastor took place in the church in Moyland on the Lower Rhine.

Publications (selection)

  • Personal experiences with the ordination of women theologians in the Confessing Church of the Rhineland and in Berlin / Brandenburg . In: Günther van Norden (Ed.): Between Confession and Adaptation. Essays on the church struggle in Rhenish communities. Cologne 1985, pp. 193-209.
  • The Cologne “concerted action” of 1928/29 to amend the Vicar Women Act of 9 May 1927 . In: Women's research project on the history of the theologians, Göttingen (Ed.): Lateral thinking: Contributions to the feminist-liberation-theological discussion; Festschrift for Hannelore Erhart on his 65th birthday . Pfaffenweiler 1992, pp. 247-260.
  • First came the brothers ...! In: Karl-Adolf Bauer (Ed.): Sermon without a pastor? The “illegals” in the church struggle . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1993, pp. 12-22.
  • Congregation work as a field of work for women theologians during the Nazi era . In: Women's research project on the history of women theologians, Göttingen (ed.): “That's why sisters dare ...” On the history of Protestant theologians in Germany . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1994, pp. 447-459.
Collaboration on
  • So dare, sisters ... On the history of Protestant theologians in Germany . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1994 ISBN 978-3-7887-1477-2 .
  • The dispute over the ordination of women in the Confessing Church. Source texts on their history in World War II . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1997 ISBN 978-3-7887-1649-3 .

literature

  • Hannelore Erhart , Heike Köhler: Ilse Härter . In: So close to heaven - so far from the rectory. First Protestant theologians in spiritual office . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1996, pp. 53-58.
  • Dagmar Herbrecht, Heike Köhler: “I will not be present for my consecration” . In: Junge Kirche , 64, 2003, issue 1, pp. 18-20.
  • Christine Globig: "I only did what was taken for granted!" hc Ilse Härter on January 31, 2006 . In: Schlangenbrut 24 (2006), No. 93, pp. 34-39 ( schlangenbrut.de ). Reprint: Deutsches Pfarrerblatt 112 (2012), no . 1, pp. 9-14 ( pfarrerverband.de ).
  • Hartmut Ludwig (Ed.): On the opposite course. A festive letter of thanks for the 100th birthday of Pastor Dr. hc Ilse Härter . Logos-Verlag Berlin 2011 ( excerpts ).
  • Heike Köhler: Dr. Ilse Härter - pioneer in the parish office . In (Ed.): Gender and Equal Opportunities Office of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland: Reformators. Since 1517 . Exhibition catalog Düsseldorf 2017, pp. 46–47.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreword Bishop i. R. Maria Jepsen in: Hartmut Ludwig (Ed.): On opposite course. A festive letter of thanks for the 100th birthday of Pastor Dr. hc Ilse Härter . Logos-Verlag, Berlin 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Harder, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Asperden
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2012
Place of death Moyland