Ingeborg-Maria von Werthern

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Ingeborg-Maria Freiin von Werthern (center) with canons
Grave in the cemetery of the monastery monastery

Ingeborg-Maria Freiin von Werthern (born January 27, 1913 in Kassel ; † March 14, 1996 in Kloster Stift zum Heiligengrabe ) was abbess of the Protestant women's monastery in Heiligengrabe from 1952 to 1995.

Life

Ingeborg-Maria Freiin von Werthern was the daughter of a Prussian officer . In 1931 she joined the NSDAP . In 1933 she began studying Protestant theology and passed her exams in 1938 and 1940. She then worked as a vicar instead of pastor Egon Brendemühl, who had been drafted for military service, in Techow (today part of the municipality of Heiligengrabe). In 1945 she officially took over the pastoral position. She remained a pastor until retirement.

The end of the Second World War was experienced by v. Werthern in the monastery. In 1946 she advocated that the Friedenshort , a deaconess sisterhood from Upper Silesia founded by Eva von Tiele-Winckler , was allowed to enter the monastery. In 1952 she became abbess of the monastery. During the time of the German Democratic Republic , she worked to ensure that the monastery became a place of Christian encounter. She gave up the office of abbess in 1995 and died at the age of 83. Her grave is in the Stiftsfriedhof in Heiligengrabe.

Honors

literature

  • Werner von Kieckebusch: Chronicle of the monastery to the holy grave . From the Reformation to the middle of the 20th century . Lukas-Verlag 2008, p. 204.
  • Wilhelm Hüffmeier : Ingeborg-Maria Freiin von Werthern (1913–1996) . In: Antje Leschonski (ed.): Anna, Lily and Regine. Portraits of women from Brandenburg-Prussia . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg 2010, pp. 154–160.
  • Film by Harald Quist: Abbess Ingeborg Maria Freiin von Werthern , Zeitzeugen TV Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH, 1992

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ingeborg-Maria von Werthern information board , set up on the monastery grounds, as of March 2015
  2. ↑ Information from the Order's Chancellery in the Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Werthern, Ingeborg-Maria von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werthern, Ingeborg-Maria Freiin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German abbess of the Stift zum Heiligengrabe monastery (1952–1996)
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1996
Place of death Holy grave