Kinga from Gyökössy-Rudersdorf

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Kinga von Gyökössy-Rudersdorf (born April 22, 1942 in Budapest as Kinga von Gyökössy ) is the bearer of the Brenz Medal of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg and the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg due to her decades of commitment to the rights of women .

Career and work

Gyökössy grew up with four siblings in Budapest and went to Tübingen for a year in 1965 , where she worked as a medical-technical assistant in the radiological institute. In 1972 she married the theologian and sociologist Karl-Heinrich Rudersdorf , with whom she worked on behalf of the German Development Service in Afghanistan and Yemen . Their daughter Réka was born in 1982. Sensitized through her observations in different countries, von Gyökössy-Rudersdorf continues to campaign for the rights of women in a variety of ways.

engagement

  • 1977 Foundation of the first autonomous women's shelter in Stuttgart, member of the advisory board of the association “Women helping women”. V.
  • Foundation of the first German migrant women working group in Stuttgart
  • Collaboration in the Stuttgart women's network, organizer of the International Women's Days and the Equal Pay Day in Stuttgart
  • Participation in the working group Asylum Stuttgart and Tübingen
  • Participation in the round table against forced marriage
  • since 1988 volunteer work in the Protestant women's work of the regional church of Württemberg
  • since 2006 volunteer work for the Protestant women in Württemberg
  • Advisor for the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) for decades
  • Participation in the Ver.di migration committee
  • Parish councilor in the Hungarian Protestant community in Stuttgart / Bad Cannstatt
  • Since 1990 involvement in the "World Conference of Religions on the Way to Peace" (WCRP), local group in Stuttgart
  • since 1994 co-organizer of the “Women's World Day of Prayer” in the Protestant regional church
  • Long-term volunteer work in the “Association for a Just World e. V. “(World Shop) in Fellbach

Awards

  • 2011 Brenz Medal from the Evangelical Church in Württemberg
  • 2012 Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Sybille Neth: Starting aid for a new life. Stuttgarter Zeitung, May 22, 2017, accessed on February 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Friedlinde Gurr-Hirsch MdL at the award of the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg
  4. ↑ “Can fashion be a sin?” Lecture by Kinga von Gyökössy-Rudersdorf on November 11, 2010
  5. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten of February 9, 2011 Kinga von Gyökössy-Rudersdorf spoke about fashion and responsibility at the women's meeting ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ LandFrauen Kreis Böblingen We want work with dignity - campaign for clean clothes
  7. ↑ Annual program 2014: "Clothing - made in dignity" ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file)
  8. ^ Verein Eine Welt Altbach : Campaign for clean clothes, March 2008, information evening with Kinga v. Gyökössy-Rudersdorf, Weinstadt-Endersbach, Evang. Women in Württemberg
  9. ^ Hungarian Evangelical Congregation in Württemberg, Annual Report 2001
  10. ↑ Women help women e. V. Stuttgart: On the move to improve the world
  11. ^ Open Church, Evangelical Association in Württemberg: Honoring a distinguished campaigner for the rights of women and migrants .
  12. ↑ Evangelical Church in Württemberg: Commitment to women's rights awarded ( Memento from April 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Gyökössy-Rudersdorf, Kinga from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest