Therese Wieland

Therese Wieland (born October 26, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a former teacher, married and the mother of three children.

biography

Therese Wieland completed a teaching degree in general education, religious education and sports education. She was a teacher at a primary and secondary school in Frankfurt. After moving to Stuttgart (1978) she became vice principal and then head teacher at primary schools in Stuttgart. After consulting the former bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese Georg Moser , he appointed her school dean for the Stuttgart district. In 1992, Bishop Walter Kasper appointed Therese Wieland as the first Ordinariate Councilor of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese . Therese Wieland was the first woman in a Catholic church leadership in what was then West Germany. She headed the Department of Church and Society and has been in retirement since November 1, 2003.

Wieland was a member of the broadcasting council of Südwestrundfunk until 2014 . At the suggestion of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg, she was a member of the 14th Federal Assembly . In 2001 Therese Wieland received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, in 2014 the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg and in 2018 the papal order: Lady of the New Year's Eve .

Through her various voluntary activities, Therese Wieland received further awards from the German Caritas Association , the Social Service of Catholic Women and the honor coin of the city of Stuttgart.

Therese Wieland headed the Social Service of Catholic Women eV diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart on an honorary basis from 1989 to 2014.

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