Marie Veit

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Marie Veit (born August 18, 1921 in Marburg (Lahn) ; † February 14, 2004 in Cologne ) was a German theologian.

Life

Marie Veit, daughter of the medical professor Otto Veit and of Frida Veit geb. Meinshausen, studied Protestant theology in Marburg, Jena and Halle and received his doctorate in 1946 under Rudolf Bultmann on the conception of the person of Jesus in early Christianity according to the latest research . From 1947 she was a religion teacher at the Hildegardis Lyceum for girls (at that time in Lotharstrasse, today Hildegard-von-Bingen-Gymnasium in Leybergstrasse), a Cologne girls' high school, where Dorothee Sölle was one of her students.

Marie Veit was active in the district synodal committee of the Cologne-North church district from 1961 to 1972 and in the presbytery of the Clarenbach parish in Cologne-Braunsfeld from 1964 to 1972. She was ordained as a ministerial assistant in this ward.

In 1972 she was appointed professor for religious didactics at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen, where she taught until her retirement in 1989. On April 9, 2003, she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Federal President Johannes Rau . She received the medal for deserving citizens from the Lord Mayor of Cologne.

Marie Veit died on February 14, 2004 in the Clarenbachstift Cologne-Braunsfeld. On March 8, 2004, she was buried in the family grave at the Melatenfriedhof in Cologne .

Political commitment

Shaped by the Confessing Church , where her parents got involved, Veit represented a "non-ecclesiastical, but radical [s] Christianity". She was involved in the Church Brotherhood in the Rhineland , campaigned against rearmament and the dangers of a nuclear war. In 1968 she was one of the initiators of the Political Night Prayer in the Antoniterkirche (Cologne) , in 1973 she helped found the Christians for Socialism in Germany. Because of her lectures, church services and discussions, she was compared to an old missionary who travels through the country, identical to herself and thoroughly believable. In the state elections in Hesse in 1983 , she ran for the SPD spin-off Democratic Socialists in the Marburg-Biedenkopf II constituency , in which she received 0.2% of the vote.

From 1986 until her death she was co-editor of the political and scientific monthly magazine Blätter for German and international politics .

Works (selection)

  • The conception of the person of Jesus in early Christianity according to the latest research . Bauer, Marburg (Lahn) 1946.
  • Creeds . Jugenddienst-Verlag, Wuppertal 1971.
  • Mute people can speak for themselves . Jugenddienst-Verlag, Wuppertal 1978.
  • Perspectives in theology and religious education . Department of Religious Studies at the Justus Liebig University, Giessen 1981.
  • Theology must come from below . Hammer, Wuppertal 1991.
  • Talking about the charm of God . Höhn, Biberach an der Riss 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Paul Gerhard Schoenborn, Marie Veit on her 80th birthday, Transparent-Extra 63/2001  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.transparentonline.de  
  2. ↑ R. Ortmann, Prof. Dr. Otto Veit, An Obituary and a Piece of the History of Cologne Anatomy , Acta Anatomica 1976; 94: 161-168
  3. ↑ a b Dorothee Sölle, headwind. Memories, Hamburg, 1995
  4. ↑ Fulbert Steffensky, Marie Veit †, sheets for German and international politics 4/2004, p. 411
personal data
SURNAME Veit, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg (Lahn)
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2004
Place of death Cologne