Lenore Volz

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Lenore Volz (born March 16, 1913 in Waiblingen ; † September 26, 2009 in Stuttgart ) was a German Protestant theologian and one of the first women to work as a pastor in Württemberg . She was chairwoman of the convention of women theologians in the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

Life

Lenore was born the youngest of three children. Her father Hugo Volz was a tax officer, her mother Amalie Volz , b. Sixt, was the founder of the evangelical mother school in Württemberg.

Lenore first attended the girls' school in Esslingen , then the Königin-Katharina-Stift in Stuttgart. In preparation for her studies, she learned Latin , Greek and Hebrew . In Tübingen , where she enrolled in 1933, she was one of twelve women who studied Protestant theology there. In 1934 Lenore Volz took over the leadership of the German Christian Student Movement (DCSB) . In 1935 she went to Greifswald for a year , and in 1939 she successfully completed her studies in Tübingen.

It was not until 1940, when more and more pastors were called up for military service, that Lenore was employed as an assistant in the dean's office in Bad Cannstatt . As a woman, however, she was only allowed to sermon from 1942 - due to the war. Baptisms, weddings, funerals and communion celebrations were still only allowed to be performed by men.

In 1965 Lenore Volz succeeded Else Breuning as chairwoman of the convention of women theologians in the Protestant regional church in Württemberg. In this function she fought for the admission of women to the preaching office and for equal rights for women with their male colleagues in the Württemberg regional church. In 1967 she brought out a book called Women on the Pulpit? A burning question for our church . Their struggle was successful: the Württemberg “Theologians Act” of 1968 allowed women to work as pastors with almost equal rights.

Lenore Volz took over the hospital pastoral post in Bad Cannstatt in 1970, where she expanded the voluntary visiting service.

In 1994 she wrote her autobiography Gown Not Intended .

After her death in 2009, Lenore Volz was buried in the Uff churchyard in Bad Cannstatt.

On January 1, 2019, the Lenore-Volz congregation was founded in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, an amalgamation of the former Bad Cannstatt parishes of Wichern, Sommerrain, Andreä and Stephanus.

Works

  • Lenore Volz (Ed.): Women in the pulpit ?: A burning question of our church , Stuttgart 1967.
  • Lenore Volz: Gown not provided. Pastor from the very beginning , Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 978-3-7918-1940-2 .

literature

  • Barbara Michelfelder : Lenore Volz. In: FemaleES. Searched for and discovered women's history. Esslingen 1999, pp. 178-186.
  • Stefanie Schäfer-Bossert: From black dress to gown. The long way women walk to the parish office . In: Hearth and Heaven. Women in the Protestant Württemberg . Catalog for the exhibition in the Landeskirchlichen Museum Ludwigsburg from May 17, 1997 to March 29, 1998, pp. 149–154.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lenore Volz: gown not provided . Stuttgart 1994, p. 39 ff .
  2. ^ Lenore Volz: gown not provided . Stuttgart 1994, p. 62 ff .
  3. ^ Lenore Volz: gown not provided . Stuttgart 1994, p. 145 f .
  4. ^ Lenore Volz: gown not provided . Stuttgart 1994, p. 167 .
  5. ^ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: Lenore-Volz-Gemeinde Bad Cannstatt: Four pastors for one community. Retrieved January 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Volz, Lenore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volz, Leonore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Waiblingen
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 2009
Place of death Stuttgart