Marianne Timm
Henriette Marianne Timm (born February 8, 1913 in Hamburg ; † November 1, 1993 there ) was a German Protestant theologian and religious educator .
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Timm was the daughter of a Hamburg college teacher. From 1932 she studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Marburg and Bonn and in the summer semester of 1935 at the University of Rostock . She was involved in the German Christian Student Movement. In 1937 and 1939 she passed her theological exams in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state and worked in the student pastoral care of the University of Hamburg and as an assistant in a parish office. As a travel secretary for the Evangelical Student Congregations, in 1941 she collected money for Jews living in illegality and organized unofficial conferences. In 1948 Timm attended the Evangelical Academy and later switched to the catechetical office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state . Here Timm was responsible for religious education. She wrote numerous textbooks and collections and also trained teachers for religion. She was ordained in 1953 .
She received the title of "pastor" in 1969 and was elected the first pastor to the council of the Hamburg regional church in the following year, to which she belonged until 1977. Timm took over the management of the committee for "Image and Film in Religious Instruction of the Evangelical Church in Germany" and created several series of images dealing with Christian art. She campaigned for Christian-Jewish dialogue and organized group tours for teachers through Israel in the 1950s . Even after her retirement in 1979 she was committed to a children's home in Israel and Christians in the former GDR .
literature
- Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 700.
- Ursula Sieg: Marianne Timm (1913–1993). An immodest woman . In: Annebelle Pithan (ed.): Religious educators of the 20th century . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, pp. 224-240.
Web links
- Literature by and about Marianne Timm in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Timm, Marianne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and religious educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1993 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |