Jutta Dahl

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Certificate of the Aachen Peace Prize 1988

Jutta Renate von Dahl (born May 27, 1943 in Stuttgart as Jutta Weitbrecht ), Protestant pastor , was the first to be awarded the Aachen Peace Prize in 1988 (with Werner Sanß ) for her commitment to the peace movement .

Life

Jutta Weitbrecht, daughter of Dr. Ing.Gerhard Weitbrecht (1913–2004) from the Wuerttemberg-based pastor and publisher family Weitbrecht , was evacuated from the bombed-out Stuttgart to the Swabian Alb during the Second World War . That's where she grew up. During the period of reconstruction, her parents moved to Cologne via Neu-Isenburg , where she graduated from high school at the (Protestant) Kaiserin Augusta School in Cologne. She then studied theology at the universities of Tübingen , Vienna and Bonn . After the first theological exam she was a vicariate in Essen-Stoppenberg with a focus on working as a school priest , after the second theological exam at the regional church office in Düsseldorf, assistant preacher (pastor for employment) in Essen-Kray .

There she met her future husband, Pastor August Dahl , in March 1971 , whom she married that same year. In December 1971 Jutta Dahl was ordained pastor. After a son and two daughters were born to the Dahls in 1973, 1975 and 1977 († 1979), Ms. Dahl resigned from church office for 9 years. Attempts to get a (half) job in the Rhenish regional church after the child-rearing period that was not yet legally secured at the time failed. Nevertheless, she has worked a lot on a voluntary basis, part-time or as a freelance worker in church work ( women's aid ) and adult education .

In 1976 Pastor Dahl took up his position as parish priest in Bell , and the family moved to the Hunsrück .

Engagement in the peace movement

Peace field
Shield between the crosses

Even when she was a student, Jutta Dahl was involved in the anti- apartheid movement, especially in the fruit boycott initiated by the South Africans themselves .

When, a few years after moving to Bell in the immediate vicinity as part of the NATO double decision US cruise missiles were to be deployed, Jutta Dahl fought with her husband, the missiles August , and many others against these missile base Pydna . Her speech in Bonn in June 1984 at the "Human Chain for Peace and Work", which she helped to organize , was particularly impressive . It reached from Bell / Hasselbach to Duisburg , which was affected by restructuring measures. This commitment earned her and her husband the non-prolongation of their activity as religion teacher in schools (1984) but also that she could be one of the first winners of the Aachen Peace Prize (1988). The high point in the fight against the stationing was the large demonstration on Saturday, October 11, 1986, which brought besides 10,000 Hunsrückers 180,000 to 200,000 demonstrators with buses and special trains from Hamburg to Konstanz on the Hunsrück. This demonstration, approved under certain conditions, was peaceful and orderly, contrary to all expectations of the state authorities. But also the organization of the many small actions, for example the setting up of crosses for each planned missile in the peace field , the writing of leaflets to be distributed to the soldiers, the correspondence with elected officials in the communities, local and non-local politicians, associations and initiatives was her job.

At the end of the 1980s, the concept was not pursued any further and the area was used for other military purposes, today even for an annual techno event , Nature One .

Jutta Dahl was also accepted again as a teacher at the adult education center of the Verbandsgemeinde . After her husband's retirement, she lives with him near Bell and Pydna, on the Rothenbergerhof .

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personal data
SURNAME Dahl, Jutta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dahl, Jutta Renate von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian and anti-nuclear activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart