Ruth Brown

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Ruth Braun , née Maier, (born September 27, 1919 in Besenfeld in the Black Forest ; † October 28, 2012 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was the long-time chairwoman of the Evangelical Station Mission and member of the Evangelical Regional Synod of Württemberg . She was therefore awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg . For almost 50 years she worked exclusively on a voluntary basis for church and diakonia .

Life

Ruth Braun grew up as a pastor's daughter in the northern Black Forest . She trained as a colonial landlady and worked for two years on a coffee plantation in East Africa . In 1941 she married Theodor Braun , who was pastor and later dean in Nürtingen . In Nürtingen she helped to set up the Evangelical Aid Organization after the Second World War .

Act

Ruth Braun worked for many years in a responsible position in many church and diaconal committees and especially in the work with foreign women. For 33 years, from 1959 to 1992, she headed the Association for International Youth Work (VIJ) in Stuttgart on a voluntary basis . This is mainly committed to the encounter between German and foreign women. On her initiative, the Women's Information Center (FIZ) was established in Stuttgart in 1987 . The advice center helps women from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe who came to Germany through trafficking in women, sex tourism and dubious marriage brokerage and who need help against violence and exploitation. In addition, Ruth Braun was a specialist in questions relating to encounters with Islam. In addition, she initiated encounters between Italian, Greek and German senior citizens and organized joint activities for Greek and German women in her place of residence in Oberesslingen for many years .

For many years Ruth Braun was the chairwoman of the Evangelical Station Mission . In addition, she was a member of the Evangelical Regional Synod , the Parliament of the Evangelical Regional Church, as well as the Regional Committee , the former governing body of the Diakonisches Werk Württemberg .

The mother of six was a member of up to 24 boards of directors of various social institutions. She has received numerous awards for her decades of voluntary work; Among other things, shortly before the end of his term in office, Federal President Gustav Heinemann awarded her the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon on May 24, 1974 in the Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn .

Honors

literature

  • Bozica Boba Sodar: “A life rich through others.” Ruth Braun. In: “We all had a vision.” Nürtinger women in the welfare system (= Nürtinger Frauenspuren Vol. 1), Sindlinger-Burchartz, Nürtingen, 2003, ISBN 3-928812-34-3 , pp. 74-76
  • Hildegard Lüning: Ruth Braun laudatory speech at the 1986 Barbara Künkelin award ceremony . In: Heimatblätter. Yearbook for Schorndorf and surroundings 4 (1986), pp. 110-116

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ruth Braun, an active member of church and diakonia, died at the age of 93 (October 30, 2012). (No longer available online.) In: www.elk-wue.de. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015 ; accessed on September 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elk-wue.de
  2. ↑ a b Bechtle Verlag & Druck: Ruth Braun turns 90 - Eßlinger Zeitung ONLINE. Retrieved September 8, 2015 .
  3. ^ Theodor Braun: Evangelical Church District Nürtingen . In: www.ev-kirchen Bezirk-nuertingen.de. Retrieved September 8, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b OnJour editorial office: Association for International Youth Work - History. In: www.vij-stuttgart.de. Retrieved September 8, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Ruth Braun, an active member of church and diakonia, died at the age of 93. In: www.lifepr.de. Retrieved September 8, 2015 .
  6. ^ Prize winners 1986 on the homepage of the Barbara Künkelin Prize Foundation
  7. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, accessed on June 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maier, Ruth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German volunteers for the Evangelical Church of Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Besenfeld , Germany
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2012
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar , Germany