Katharina Gombert

Anna Lydia Katharina Gombert (born February 17, 1903 in Mohrungen , † December 30, 1986 in Neu Darchau ) was a German Lutheran cleric.

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Katharina Gombert was the daughter of a pastor. After attending the higher private girls' school in Mohrungen from 1909 to 1916, she attended the König-Luise-Schule in Königsberg . After she received her school-leaving certificate there in 1922, she moved to the municipal high school. Here she received the qualification to teach in 1923 lyceums and then taught as a private tutor on an estate in Green Blum .

Gombert made the decision to become a theologian and studied Protestant theology at the University of Königsberg , the University of Rostock and the University of Göttingen . Since she had very good school reports, she was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation in 1925 . Gombert was involved in the Association of Protestant Theologians and advocated job opportunities for women theologians in the church.

She completed her studies in 1930 with the first theological exam and then worked as a parish assistant at St. Lukas Church in Fuhlsbüttel , where she was entrusted with youth work, church instruction and social work. She placed particular emphasis on theological dialogue with young people. In 1933 she got a permanent position, completed the vicariate , which she completed with the second theological exam in the same year.

Gombert gave lectures, for example in the German-Evangelical Women's Association , and led Hamburg meetings of the female theologians' association. During the time of National Socialism , Gombert was never a member of the NSDAP , but since 1934 a member of the Hamburg confessional community.

After the end of the Second World War , Gombert took over the chairmanship of Evangelical Women's Aid and full-time management of the Evangelical Women's Work in Hamburg . In these positions she was particularly committed to mothers' and women's free time . In June 1952, Gombert resigned from her position as director of the women's organization. In doing so, she protested against the decision made by the regional church office in 1951 to provide a legal structure for the institution's relatively open work.

Gombert switched to hospital pastoral care and from 1955 worked exclusively in Hamburg-Eilbek . Here she was allowed to take over the services in 1964. From 1965 Gombert became a spiritual member of a committee of the synod for the ordination of women .

On September 1, 1967, Katharina Gombert retired for health reasons and received the official title of “Pastor i. R ". She thus had the rights to administer the sacraments and to proclaim the word publicly, for which she had campaigned for several decades.

literature

• Rainer Hering: Gombert, Katharina . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 119-120 .