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Heide Schütz (*1941) is a german pedagogue and peace educator.

Life and education
Growing up as a war child, Heide Schütz came to appreciate the Quaker feedings offered by American Quakers in the bombed post-war city of Berlin. At the age of twelve, she and her family moved to Trier, where she graduated from the Auguste-Viktoria-Schule. After absolving her diaconal year as a hospital helper with the evangelical church, she began her university studies in German and English philology as well as political science in Saarbrücken and Mainz. During her studies in Mainz, she was a member of the editing team for the student magazine nobis, participated in the student parliament, and volunteered as a faculty speaker, both locally and nationally. She also met her husband during this time. For decades, Heide Schütz has worked as a teacher, with her last place of work being the Helmholtz-Gymnasium in Bonn.

Peace work
Over time she advocated for reconcilement, peace education, disarmament, and gender equality in all peace processes. She has worked as an NGO observer with the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) for the UN Commission on the Status of Women, which organized four UN World Conferences on Women, since 1988. After the fourth UN World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995), Heide Schütz founded the women's peace network "Frauennetzwerk für Frieden e.V." together with likeminded women in Bonn on the 3. February 1996. She worked as the first chairwoman for the network from 1996 until 2019. Alongside Hana Klimesova, a Czech spokeswoman for the "NGO Women's Movement for Equal Rights in the Czech Republic" she soon went on to found the German-Czech Forum on Women. The forum was intended to support the German-Czech reconcilement process as well as the general communication between both nations. In 2020, Heide Schütz acted as a judge of the jury for the Bertha von Suttner Peace Prize in Georgia.

In honor of her yearlong commitment to peace, federal president Joachim Gauck conferred upon her the Federal Cross of Merit in 2016. In her position as chairwoman, Heide Schütz also received the prize awarded to the Frauennetzwerk für Frieden by the Else-Mayer Stiftung in November 2015, as well as the Helga-und-Werner-Sprenger-Friedenspreis in November 2017. In January of 2021, the Frauennetzwerk für Frieden named Heide Schütz as their honorary chairwoman.