User:Munfarid1/Annemarie Rübens

Ana María Rubens, in German Annemarie Rübens, (born 24 May 1900 in Banfield, Argentina - 8 May 1990 in Göttingen, Germany) was an Argentine theologian, social activist and feminist of German descent. She was recognized for her work in times of wars and dictatorships in Europe and Latin America in the 20th century.

Biography
Rubens was born in Banfield, Buenos Aires province, the daughter of a Catholic father and a Lutheran mother, both of German origin. When she was nine years old, her parents decided to move to Germany. In 1920, she began to study theology, being part of the first group of women theologians admitted by the German protestant church. With eight other women, she founded the Association of Lutheran Women Theologians in 1925. The association demanded that women should be able to work as ministers "equal to that of men", with all duties and responsibilities, from preaching to baptisms, officiating at marriages and funerals. From 1927 onwards, she worked in vocational schools and retirement homes in Cologne. Between 1931 and 1932, she worked as teacher for religious education in German schools.

Around the same time in the late 1920s, Rubens and her fellow theologians joined the Social Democratic Party and the Brotherhood of Socialist Theologians. In the summer of 1933, they were dismissed from their service as vicars by the National Socialists. Ruben's dismissal was based on the fact that she prayed publicly for Jews and, that in a sermon on 2 April 1933, she expressed her criticism of the National Socialist rule and condemned the hatred against Jewish fellow citizens. .