Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz

Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz (born June 27, 1944 in Belgard an der Persante ; † December 17, 1999 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German church historian and director of the Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain. She was co-editor of the magazine Kirche und Israel (from 1986 to 1993) and the series of papers on contemporary church history . She was best known for her exposure of anti-Judaistic tendencies in Christian theology.

Life

Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz was born to a family from Riga and grew up in Großgoltern , a village near Hanover , in Osnabrück and Loccum after an aborted flight and expulsion . After graduating from high school and working as a nurse for six months, she studied musicology, Latin, philosophy and Protestant theology, since 1963 in Göttingen and since 1965 in Tübingen . There she shifted the focus from musicology to theology and obtained her doctorate in theology in 1972 with a thesis on church history, then was assistant to the Evangelical-theological faculty of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , later repetition at the Evangelical monastery in Tübingen .

In 1983 Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz went to the Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain as head of studies, which she took over in 1996. In 1984 she was ordained pastor of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , in 1990 she qualified as a professor for historical theology in the Department of Evangelical Theology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and in 1997 was appointed adjunct professor. In 1999 she was awarded the Edith Stein Prize for her efforts to promote Christian-Jewish understanding .

Focus of work

Since 1987 she has been a member of the working group Jews and Christians at the German Evangelical Church Congress , and from 1980 to 1997 of the EKD Commission for Church and Judaism. Since 1985 she has been a member and since 1988 deputy chairwoman of the Evangelical Working Group for Contemporary Church History, whose business she was in charge of until the end. In 1988/89 she was a member of the preparatory committee for the main topic "The Community of Women and Men in the Church" of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany , then a member of a preparatory committee and from 1992 to 1996 member and chairwoman of the EKD commission for the promotion of theological research on women.

Her main areas of work were contemporary church history, in particular the history of theological science and the evangelical theological faculties, the relationship between Jews and Christians, feminist theology and theological research on women. In the Academy's conference work, she was also responsible for music for several years.

The Leonore Siegele Wenschkewitz Prize is named after her, which is awarded by the Association for the Promotion of Feminist Theology in Research and Teaching. V., the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau and the Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain.

Fonts

• National Socialism and Churches. Religious policy of party and state until 1935 (= Tübinger Schriften zur Sozial- und Zeitgeschichte 5), Düsseldorf 1974 (edited version of the dissertation: Party, State and Churches in the Third Reich. Materials on National Socialist religious policy until 1935, Tübingen 1972).
• Roots of anti-Semitism in Luther's theological anti-Judaism . In: Heinz Kremers (ed.) In collaboration with Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz and Bertold Klappert: The Jews and Martin Luther - Martin Luther and the Jews. History, impact history, challenge . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1985, ² 1987, pp 351-367.
• The relationship between Protestant theology and the science of Judaism during the Weimar Republic . In: Walter Grab , Julius H. Schoeps (Ed.): Jews in the Weimar Republic (= studies on intellectual history 6). Stuttgart and Bonn 1986, pp. 153-178; English under the title: The Relationship between Protestant Theology and Jewish Studies during the Weimar Republic, in: Otto Dov Kulka , Paul R. Mendes-Flohr (Ed.): Judaism and Christianity under the Impact of National Socialism . Jerusalem 1987, pp. 133-150.
• Protestant university theology and racial ideology in the time of National Socialism. Gerhard Kittel's lecture "The Origin of Judaism and the Origin of the Jewish Question" from 1936 . In: Günter Brakelmann , Martin Rosowski (ed.): Antisemitism. From religious hatred of Jews to racial ideology . Göttingen 1989, pp. 52-75.
• Josel von Rosheim: Jews and Christians in the Age of Reformation . In: Kirche und Israel 6, 1991, pp. 3-16 (post-doctoral lecture on May 9, 1990).
• The reception and discussion of the gender category in theological science . In: Hadumod Bußmann , Renate Hof (Ed.): Genus. On the gender difference in cultural studies . Stuttgart 1995, pp. 60-112.

As editor

• Repressed past that beset us. Feminist theology in charge of history . Munich 1988.
• (with Gerda Stuchlik :) Women and Fascism in Europe. The fascist body (= women in history and society 6). Pfaffenweiler 1990.
• (with Gerda Stuchlik :) University and National Socialism. History of science and science as a theme of contemporary history (= Arnoldshainer Nahrungsmittel 66). Frankfurt a. M. 1990.
• The Protestant churches and the SED state - a topic of contemporary church history (= Arnoldshainer Texte 77). Frankfurt a. M. 1993.
• (with Carsten Nicolaisen :) Theological faculties under National Socialism (= work on contemporary church history B 18). Göttingen 1993.
• Christian anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism. Theological and church programs of German Christians (= Arnoldshainer texts 85). Frankfurt a. M. 1994.
• (with Doron Kiesel :) Despite the explanation. Anti-Semitism and political culture in Germany (= Arnoldshainer Texte 100), Frankfurt a. M. 1998.
• Typically evangelical? Confessional profiling in the discussion (= Arnoldshainer Texte 105), Frankfurt a. M. 1998.
• Religious Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany. Concepts of the political parties represented in the Bundestag, the Federal Government, the Protestant and Catholic Church (= Arnoldshainer Texte 111), Frankfurt a. M. 2000.

literature

• Hermann Düringer, Karin Weintz (ed.): Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz. Personality and Effectiveness (= Arnoldshainer Texte 112), Frankfurt a. M. 2000.
• Gury Schneider-Ludorff:  SIEGELE-WENSCHKEWITZ, Leonore. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 29, Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-452-6 , Sp. 1358-1369.
• Ute Knie , Helga Engler-Heidle : Dr. Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz. Feminist theology . In: Ute Knie, Helga Engler-Heidle (Ed.): Women's movement in the EKHN. Accompanying publication to the "women's movement online". Darmstadt 2020, ISBN 978-3-87390-431-6 , pp. 52-53

Web links

• Literature by and about Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• The name giver of the Leonore Siegele Wenschkewitz Prize - website of the Association for the Promotion of Feminist Theology in Research and Teaching e. V.