Meta Eyl

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Meta Eyl (born February 21, 1893 in Hanover ; † July 28, 1952 in Sundern in the Sauerland ) was one of the first Protestant theologians in Germany and the first theologian to be consecrated in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover .

Life

Meta Eyl was the daughter of Meta Runge and the Hanover City Syndic Heinrich Johannes Georg Eyl . She completed her studies in Protestant theology in 1925 at the University of Greifswald with a licentiate examination. She then became a community helper in Hanover and, after her second exam, she became a student chaplain in Göttingen .

Meta Eyl developed into a women's rights activist in the bourgeois denominational women's movement . As chairwoman of the Association of Protestant Theologians in Germany (1932–1934) and then as federal chairwoman of the German-Evangelical Women's Association and as second chairwoman of Protestant women's work in Germany , she represented the interests of women against great opposition during the time of National Socialism and the Church Struggle. In terms of church politics, she represented the line of the Hanoverian regional bishop August Marahrens , which was characterized by many compromises with the rulers, and was therefore dismissed from the chair of the German-Evangelical Women's Association in 1948 after lengthy disputes.

In the files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP , the number “21769” for the German women's labor service was found for Meta Eyl and Hans Eyl .

After the Second World War , she campaigned for the establishment of hospital pastoral care for women. For this she was consecrated as a parish assistant in 1946. She died shortly after her retirement.

estate

The estate of the Eyl family can now be found in the Hannover City Archives . This includes documents on the professional career of Hans Eyl, “Certificates for club memberships and small printed matter for family celebrations; Correspondence from parents and children of a private nature, in particular the reception correspondence from daughter Meta Eyl (born 1893, running until 1938) and documents from son Ludwig Eyl (1892-1914), including the estate of the von Klöden family by marriage (approx. 1910 -1944) ".

literature

  • Meta Eyl: The requirement of the hour , in: Paula Müller-Otfried (Hrsg.): Evangelische Frauenzeitung. Journal for the evangelical world of women. Organ of the German-Evangelical Women's Association , 35th year, Hanover, 1934, pp. 98-102
  • "Therefore dare, sisters ..." Women's research project on the history of women theologians , Göttingen; On the history of Protestant theologians in Germany, published in the series: Historisch-Theologische Studien zum 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Vol. 7, 2nd edition, Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1994
  • Heike Köhler, Dagmar Henze, Dagmar Herbrecht, Hannelore Erhart (eds.): So close to heaven - so far from the rectory. First Protestant theologians in the ministry , Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1996
  • Heike Köhler: German - Evangelical - Woman. Meta Eyl - a theologian caught between the national-socialist imperial church and the evangelical women's movement , Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn, 2003
  • Heike Köhler: Lic. Theol. Meta Eyl . In: Lexicon of early Protestant theologians. Biographical sketches . Neukirchener Verlagshaus, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2005, p. 106 ISBN 978-3797500816

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter von Hueck (arrangement), Freiherr Friedrich Wilhelm von Lycker-Ehrenkrook ( coat of arms - drawer): Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , vol. 55, p. 174; partly online via Google books
  2. ↑ Helmut Heiber (edit.): Files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. Reconstruction of a lost stock. Collection of the correspondence handed down in other provenances , minutes of meetings, etc. with the deputy of the Führer and his staff or the party chancellery, their offices, reports and subdivisions as well as with Hess and Bormann personally , in the series publication of the Institute for Contemporary History , ed. from the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich; London; New York; Paris: Saur, [...] p. 604 and others; online through google books
  3. ↑ Compare the information in the central database of bequests (see web links)
personal data
SURNAME Eyl, Meta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1952
Place of death Sundern , Sauerland