Ruth Misselwitz

Ruth Misselwitz (born February 4, 1952 in Zützen , Luckau district ) is a Protestant pastor . She founded the Pankow Peace Circle and was an important representative of the church peace and environmental movement in the GDR .

Life

Ruth Misselwitz grew up in a pastor's family. After graduating from high school, she was a student nurse at St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin until 1971 . She then studied theology at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the seminary Gnadau . Since 1981 she was pastor of the Protestant parish Alt-Pankow .

Together with her husband Hans-Jürgen Misselwitz , the graphic artist Martin Hoffmann , the director Freya Klier , Vera Wollenberger and others, she founded the Pankow Peace Circle in the autumn of 1981, one of the largest opposition groups in the GDR operating under the umbrella of the Evangelical Church . She also got involved with women for peace and in the GDR-wide network Concrete for Peace. From 1988 to 1989 she worked in the subgroup More Justice in the GDR of the Ecumenical Assembly for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation . In 1989 she was a delegate of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR at the First European Ecumenical Assembly Peace in Justice in Basel .

From 1989 to 1990 she moderated the round table in Pankow in connection with the investigation of the falsification of the local elections of May 7, 1989 . In 1991 she was a founding member of the Mobile Academy for Gender Democracy and Peace Promotion e. V. (OWEN). Since 1998 she has been working on the Pankow Citizens Committee against right-wing extremism and violence. From 2001 to April 2010 she was chairwoman of the board of the Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste e. V. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Peaceful Revolution Foundation in Leipzig .

On July 16, 2017, the Protestant parish Alt-Pankow said goodbye to her retirement as part of a festive church service and a summer party.

Honors

1991 - Order of Merit of the State of Berlin
2000 - Gustav-Heinemann-Bürgerpreis together with Ulrike Poppe and Andrea Richter
2014 - Pankow District Medal
2014 - Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

literature

Ehrhart Neubert : Misselwitz, Ruth . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Marianne Subklew-Jeutner: The Pankower Peace Circle. History of an East Berlin group within the Evangelical Churches in the GDR 1981–1989. Der Andere Verlag, Osnabrück 2004, ISBN 3-89959-145-3 .
Marianne Subklew (Ed.): I became more courageous. The Pankower Peace Circle - political self-assertion and public contradiction. Berlin 2003, revision 2009 (exhibition catalog; texts: Marianne Subklew, design: Martin Hoffmann).
Gerold Hoffmann: Courageous against Marx & Mielke - The Christians and the end of the GDR. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02711-8 .
Marlies crowd : "The rainbow has many colors". A pastor wants to endure - Johannes Rau demands freedom of travel. In: The time . No. 12/1988, March 18, 1988, updated November 22, 2012 (recording of a conversation with Ruth Misselwitz).
Jan Thomsen: People come when things are bad for them. In: Berliner Zeitung . December 30, 2002, accessed July 17, 2017 (interview).
Never planned like this. Interview with Ulrike Queißner on the occasion of the farewell to Ruth Misselwitz, review and outlook. The Church , No. 29, July 16, 2017, accessed July 18, 2017 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Homepage of OWEN e. V. In: owen-berlin.de, accessed on July 17, 2017.
^ Board of Trustees of the Peaceful Revolution Foundation. In: stiftung-fr.de, accessed on July 17, 2017.
↑ pantha rhei - everything flows . In: Community letter, Evangelical Church Community Alt-Pankow . June – August, 2017, p. 2 f . ( online [PDF; 2.1 MB ; accessed on July 24, 2017]).
↑ Heinemann Prize: GDR civil rights activists honored. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 1, 2000, accessed July 17, 2017.
^ Pankow District Medal awarded to Pastor Ruth Misselwitz. Press release from January 16, 2014. In: berlin.de, accessed on July 17, 2017.
↑ Wowereit hands out the Cross of Merit to Ruth Misselwitz: Appreciation of the life's work of a committed civil rights activist. Press release from February 18, 2014. The Governing Mayor - Senate Chancellery, accessed on January 29, 2015 .
↑ Berlin pastor Ruth Misselwitz honored with the Cross of Merit. Peaceful Revolution Foundation, archived from the original on March 24, 2015 ; accessed on June 24, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Misselwitz, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German evangelical clergy, founder of the Pankow Peace Circle
DATE OF BIRTH	4th February 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zützen (Golßen) , Krs. Luckau

[1] Homepage of OWEN e. V. In: owen-berlin.de, accessed on July 17, 2017.

[2] Board of Trustees of the Peaceful Revolution Foundation. In: stiftung-fr.de, accessed on July 17, 2017.

[3] tha rhei - everything flows . In: Community letter, Evangelical Church Community Alt-Pankow . June – August, 2017, p. 2 f . ( online [PDF; 2.1 MB ; accessed on July 24, 2017]).

[4] Heinemann Prize: GDR civil rights activists honored. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 1, 2000, accessed July 17, 2017.

[5] Pankow District Medal awarded to Pastor Ruth Misselwitz. Press release from January 16, 2014. In: berlin.de, accessed on July 17, 2017.

[6] Wowereit hands out the Cross of Merit to Ruth Misselwitz: Appreciation of the life's work of a committed civil rights activist. Press release from February 18, 2014. The Governing Mayor - Senate Chancellery, accessed on January 29, 2015 .

[7] Berlin pastor Ruth Misselwitz honored with the Cross of Merit. Peaceful Revolution Foundation, archived from the original on March 24, 2015 ; accessed on June 24, 2017 .