Marianne Flügge-Oeri

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Marianne Flügge-Oeri in 1967 with her husband Rufus Flügge

Marianne Flügge-Oeri (born January 9, 1911 in Basel as Marianne Adelheid Oeri , † July 12, 1983 in Hanover ) was a Swiss-German lawyer . She was a champion for women's rights and women's education in Lower Saxony .

Life

Marianne Oeri and her twin sister Kunigunde were the daughter of the publicist and politician Albert Oeri and the nurse Hanna Preiswerk, who came from an old Basel merchant family. She was a godchild of Carl Gustav Jung .

From 1917 to 1930 Marianne Oeri attended several schools in Basel and passed the Matura . She then went to England for a year, where she worked as a French teacher and made her first experiences in social work with the Quakers in the slums of London .

From 1931 Oeri studied law at the University of Basel , the University of Zurich and the University of Geneva , where she received her doctorate in 1936 and the title of Doctor of Both Laws ( Dr. utriusque juris ). She completed her practical training at various courts in Basel, but did not aim for a position as a lawyer or judge. Oeri became a member of the free Swedish adult education center for political education of women, the Fogelstadförbundet . In order to be able to take part in courses and annual conferences regularly, she learned Swedish. She was later able to use the “Swedish model” that she had learned in this way in women's political work. From 1934 onwards several lifelong connections with Swedish girlfriends developed.

After completing her doctorate, Oeri went to Italy as governess for a year before taking over the secretariat of the “Aid Community for Spanish Children” ( Comité neutre de Secours aux Enfants d'Espagne ) for young victims of the Spanish civil war in Zurich in September 1937 . During her business trips Oeri witnessed the air raids of the German Condor Legion in Spain.

Meanwhile Oeri had the students in Basel and Zurich German theology students Rufus fledging met, she in on July 17, 1939 Riehen married in Basel, and with them to the start of the war "as a preacher's wife" Baptists -Gemeinde in the district Tragheim of Königsberg moved . The first three children Thomas, Claudia and Anna were born there and their husband was hired as a paramedic in the hospital. The couple, who inwardly reject National Socialism, found support in a literary and artistic circle of friends from the environment of the University of Königsberg .

When the Flügge family's apartment in Königsberg was destroyed by air raids and the Baptist congregation had dispersed as a result of the war, Marianne Flügge-Oeries' father managed to get his daughter and her three children back to Switzerland through diplomatic channels. While the grandparents were taking care of Marianne's children, Függe-Oeri was appointed to Bern by Rodolfo Olgiati as “head of the group of auxiliaries and training for Swiss donations to war victims” due to her experience in Spain . As such, Flügge-Oeri was able to travel through Germany and Italy to get an impression of the extent of the destruction.

After the war, Marianne's husband Rufus Flügge returned to Germany from a Danish internment camp and in 1946 accepted the position of pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Clausthal-Zellerfeld and student pastor at the Clausthal mining academy . In February 1948 the Hanoverian regional bishop Hanns Lilje reached the British military government that Marianne Flügge-Oeri could move with her three children to her husband in Clausthal, where in 1950 the fourth child Sibylla was born. In the Clausthal rectory, Flügge-Oeri looked after the family as well as vicars and students from different nations.

In 1954 Flügge-Oeri became the regional representative of the women's organization of the Hanoverian regional church and in this function visited many parishes and their women's groups until 1960. In addition, she was elected to the second synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany for one term in 1955 . There she made contacts with Kurt Scharf and the later Federal President Gustav Heinemann . In 1956 Flügge-Oeri organized the first of a total of 86 civic courses for women under the title "Women in Politics". In the early days of the training courses, which were organized until May 1979, Flügge-Oeri worked primarily with Grete Sehlmeyer and Anna Mosolf and cooperated with the Liberal Federation . As an EKD Synodal, Flügge-Oeri was one of the founding members of the "Action Reconciliation Sign" on April 30, 1958 in Berlin-Spandau, which was renamed " Action Reconciliation Signs " in July 1958 .

After the Flügge couple had moved to Celle in 1960 and to Hanover in 1963 , Marianne Flügge-Oeri also took over the chairmanship of the St. Christophersiedlung association, which was active in Großburgwedel , from 1967 to 1976 . V. , a settlement for displaced persons of the foundation The Sue Ryder Forgotten Allies Trust based in Cavendish .

After Rufus Flügge retired on October 1, 1979, the couple moved from the Hanoverian official apartment on the Marktkirche to a smaller apartment in the Kleefeld district . Until shortly before her death, Marianne Flügge-Oeri remained politically and socially active: At the German Evangelical Church Congress in 1983, she took part in the “women's workshop” in the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer community in the Roderbruch district of Hanover with numerous women who had fled from Iran . Shortly afterwards she died after a long illness and was buried on July 18, 1983 in the Kirchrode city cemetery.

aftermath

After the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony announced the first women's history competition in 2001 in order to raise the public awareness of the female part in Lower Saxony's Christian history, numerous works were created on the subject. The 11th year of the IGS Garbsen won under the guidance of Heidrun Gehring with the contribution of Dr. Marianne Flügge-Oeri 1911-1983 won first prize in the “Experience reports” category. The then regional bishop Margot Käßmann presented the 1,500 euro prize at a ceremony in the Annastift in Hanover.

literature

  • Dr. Marianne Flügge-Oeri ... , Brochure DIN A 5, 16 pages, ed. von Rufus Flügge on the death of his wife, Hanover, [o. D., 1983?]
  • Dr. Marianne Flügge-Oeri. An expert in women's education , in: Dorothee Münkner: Sermon and Community Building , 1st edition, self-published, Hannover 2000
  • Marianne Flügge-Oeri. In: Inge Mager (Hrsg.): Women's profiles of Lutheranism. Life stories in the 20th century (= The Lutheran Church, History and Design , Vol. 22), Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 2005, ISBN 3-579-05213-6 , pp. 581-585.
  • Heidrung Gehring and students of IGS Garbsen: Dr. Marianne Flügge-Oeri (1911–1983). Protagonist for women's rights , in: Dorothea Biermann, Hans Otte (Hrsg.): Women-Christianity-Stories from Lower Saxony , on behalf of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony, Landeskirchliches Archiv, Hanover 2003, ISBN 3-9806265 -3-9 , pp. 231-253

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Dr. Marianne Flügge-Oeri ... , Brochure DIN A 5, 16 pages, ed. von Rufus Flügge on the death of his wife, Hanover, [o. D., 1983?]
  3. ^ Carl Gustav Jung: Letters. Volume 1, ed. by Aniela Jaffé . Walter, Olten 1972, p. 58, fn. 2.
  4. ↑ a b c Thomas Flügge, Claudia Behr, Sibylla Flügge: curriculum vitae , in this. (Ed.): Rufus Flügge ... , brochure (DIN A 5, 32 pages) on Tod Flügges, Hanover [o. D., 1995?], Pp. 21-26.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Raupach, Ulrich Frey (Red.): Some important data from the life of Rufus Flügge , in this. (Ed.): Chairman of the Action Group Service for Peace e. V. A letter of thanks on the occasion of the farewell to Rufus Flügge , brochure (DIN A 4, 54 pages), ed. from the Action Group Service for Peace e. V., Blücherstraße 14, 5300 Bonn 1, 1992, p. 54.
  6. ↑ a b Inge Mager (Ed.): Marianne Flügge-Oeri , in: Frauenprofile des Luthertums. Life stories in the 20th century , Gütersloh 2005, p. 583
  7. ^ Antonia Schmidlin: Another Switzerland: Helferinnen, War Children and Humanitarian Politics 1933-1942 , Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-905313-04-9 , p. 414
  8. ↑ Jürgen Zimmer: Burgwedel: Polensiedlung provides plenty to talk about , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , September 26, 2012, accessed on May 7, 2015.
  9. ^ Address in the printed letter from Marianne Flügge-Oeri from November 1972 in: Rufus Flügge: Dr. Marianne Flügge-Oeri ... , brochure (DIN A 5, 16 pages), ed. von Rufus Flügge on the death of his wife, Hanover, [o. D., 1983?]
  10. ^ A b obituary from July 1983 in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.
  11. ↑ Hermann and Susanne Bergengruen: From the public of the word of God in the spirit of Marianne and Rufus Flügge , in Wolfgang Raupach, Ulrich Frey (Red.): 15 years chairman of the action group service for peace e. V. A letter of thanks on the occasion of the farewell to Rufus Flügge , brochure (DIN A 4, 54 pages), ed. from the Action Group Service for Peace eV, Blücherstraße 14, 5300 Bonn 1, 1992, pp. 27-30.
  12. ^ Synod of the Confederation / Women's History Prize was awarded , press release of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , September 27, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Flügge-Oeri, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oeri, Marianne (maiden name); Oeri, Marianne Adelheid (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-German lawyer, involved early on in women's political education
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1983
Place of death Hanover