Ursula Trautwein

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Ursula Elisabeth Trautwein , née Brezger (born December 10, 1932 in Mangaluru ) is an activist of the women's movement in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

Life

Childhood, education and family

Trautwein's father Rudolf Brezger trained Protestant theologians for the Basel Mission in India . She grew up with eight siblings in Baden-Württemberg . Her parents belonged to the Confessing Church . In 1956 she married the Protestant theologian and songwriter Dieter Trautwein . She completed vocational training to become a nurse and community worker. She had three children with Dieter Trautwein; her daughter Ulrike Trautwein became a Protestant theologian.

activities

Trautwein and her husband were active against apartheid and for ecumenism . In protest against the South African apartheid policy, she called for the campaign Do not buy the fruits of apartheid in 1977 , which was an action within the women's movement in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . She organized the protest in Frankfurt am Main for several years . In 1989, in the city ​​parliament , she got Frankfurt calling itself the city ​​against apartheid . Later, the women of the South African project group for Protestant women's work in Germany not only demanded a boycott of fruits from South Africa , but also that German institutions such as the German Evangelical Church Congress terminate the accounts at banks that were in contact with the South African regime. At the height of the protest in 1987, Trautwein walked through the banking district with 40,000 people at the Frankfurt Kirchentag .

Volunteering

Since 1951, Trautwein has been involved in the German Evangelical Church Congress, including in the project committee Southern Africa - South Africa Day . On the board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Evangelischen Jugend e. V. she got involved with girl scouts, Christian scouts and the ecumenical movement. From 1989 to 1994 she was an observer in the first free elections in Namibia and South Africa. She was also a member of the administrative board of the German Development Service and as a member of the SPD city ​​councilor in the Frankfurt parliament (1989–1997) and a member of the State Welfare Association of Hesse (1990 / 91–2001). As a deputy, honorary chairwoman, she worked for the organization Frauenrecht ist Menschenrecht . She is co-founder and member of the advisory board of the Anne Frank youth center in Frankfurt am Main. Furthermore, she is a speaker at the Fritz Bauer Institute and the Jewish Museum Frankfurt on the life and work of Oskar Schindler with the teacher training program Schindler's List in the classroom - eyewitness conversation with Ursula Trautwein. As deputy chairwoman she sits on the jury of the Protestant film work.

honors and awards

Trivia

Trautwein was friends with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Nelson Mandela . In her possession is a pistol-shaped bible, which Winnie Mandela once found under her pillow as a death threat.

Works

  • Ursula Trautwein: Volunteer by profession. In: Children, Church and Career. From the working mother in the service of the Lord. Experience reports, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-88981-119-6 , pp. 187-196.
  • Ursula Trautwein: Women against Apartheid: Politics with the shopping basket. In: Christiane Drewello-Merkel, Silvia Puchert (Ed.): 100 years on the right track. Evangelical women in Hesse and Nassau and their history. Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 3-934083-09-9 , p. 110f.
  • Ursula and Dieter Trautwein: More hope, more unity: 5 chapters for ecumenical household use. A working aid for community practice. With a foreword by Karl Lehmann. Freiburg i. Br. 1975, ISBN 978-3-7664-0040-6 .
  • Ursula and Dieter Trautwein: From our ecumenical résumés. In: Hans Vorster (Ed.): Ecumenism is worth it. Thank you to the World Council of Churches on its 50th anniversary. Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-87476-337-4 , pp. 21-39.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pascal Sindlinger, Jonathan Seeger and others: 'Righteous Among the Nations'. The silent rescuers of Jews in hiding in the northern Black Forest and Upper Gäu. Series of publications by the Hailfingen-Tailfingen Concentration Camp Memorial Association V., Issue 1, Gäufelden 2011: www.kz-gedenkstaette-hailfingen-tailfingen.de/pdf/kzht.v.ve_rechte_e.pdf  ( 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. , accessed on May 25, 2018.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kz-gedenkstaette-hailfingen-tailfingen.de  
  2. ↑ Ursula Trautwein: Voluntary by profession. In: Children, Church and Career. Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-88981-119-6 , p. 187.
  3. ↑ Ibid., P. 191.
  4. ^ Wiebke Rannenberg: Apartheid lives on on plantations. In: www.evangelisch.de/inhalte/125862/15-10-2015/auf-plantagen-suedafrika-lebt-die-apartheid-fort , accessed on January 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ www.fr.de/politik/spezials/einkaufen-gegen-apartheid-a-1193382 Felix Helbig: Shopping against apartheid. Frankfurter Rundschau, June 1, 2007, accessed on January 9, 2018.
  6. ^ Felix Helbig: Shopping against apartheid. In: www.fr.de/politik/spezials/einkaufen-gegen-apartheid-a-1193382 , Frankfurter Rundschau, June 1, 2007, accessed on January 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ Ursula Trautwein: Women against Apartheid: Politics with the shopping basket. In: Christiane Drewello-Merkel, Sylvia Puchert (ed.): 100 years on the right track. Evangelical women in Hesse and Nassau and their history. Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 3-934083-09-9 , p. 110.
  8. ↑ Ursula Trautwein: Voluntary by profession. In: Children, Church and Career. Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-88981-119-6 , p. 187.
  9. ↑ Ibid., P. 190.
  10. ↑ Ibid., P. 192.
  11. ↑ www.fim-frauenrecht.de/images/pdf/Schlaglichter2009.pdf  ( 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. (FIM Annual Report 2009), accessed January 9, 2018.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fim-frauenrecht.de  
  12. ↑ Ursula Trautwein: Voluntary by profession. In: Children, Church and Career , Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-88981-119-6 , p. 193.
  13. ↑ www.pz-ffm.de , accessed on January 9, 2018.
  14. ↑ Ursula Trautwein: Voluntary by profession. In: Children, Church and Career. Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-88981-119-6 , p. 193.
  15. ↑ www.ejhn.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Bericht.pdf  ( 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. , accessed January 9, 2018.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ejhn.de  
  16. ↑ Anne Kampf: A serenade for Madiba. In: www.evangelisch.de/inhalte/90939/21-12-2013/ein-taenzchen-fuer-madiba-frankfurt , accessed on January 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Trautwein, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trautwein, Ursula Elisabeth (full name); Brezger, Ursula (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Mangalore