Liselotte Nold

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Elisabeth Charlotte ("Liselotte") Nold (born April 22, 1912 in Munich ; † July 5, 1978 in Nuremberg ; born Sammetreuther ) was a German social worker .

Career

The pastor's wife Nold began working for the Bavarian Mothers Service (BMD) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church shortly before her husband's death in 1942 . In 1955 she became deputy chairwoman, and in 1965 she took over the executive chairmanship from the founder of the BMD Antonie Nopitsch . It had a lasting impact on women's work in the church. She converted the mother schools into family education centers. In 1975 she founded the Federal Association of Protestant Family Educational Institutions (BAG) and was a founding member of the Association of Protestant Adult Education (AEEB) in Bavaria.

In addition, she was director of the Laetare publishing house for 27 years . In 1969, she became the first woman to speak the word for Sunday on television.

Honors

literature

  • Beate Hofmann: Liselotte Nold (1912-1978). In: Inge Mager (Ed.): Women profiles of Lutheranism. Life stories in the 20th century (= Volume 22 of Lutheran Church, History and Design), Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2005.
  • D. Liselotte Nold, b. Sammetreuther (PDF; 23 kB) , biography at Frauenwerk Stein

Individual evidence

  1. Jan Friday: We are television, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, September 17, 2011, p. 35
  2. Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.