Birgitta zu Münster

Maria Birgitta zu Münster, OSB (13 October 1908 – 27 January 1988): née Ursula zu Münster, was a Catholic convert, Benedictine nun, and translator.

Life Ursula zu Münster was born in Hanover. Her father, Egon Graf zu Münster, was a lieutenant colonel. She had two brothers. Ursula was educated at the protestant Stift Altenburg (in Thuringia), where she was also confirmed in 1924; she later attended grammar school in Dresden. It was in the Dresden house of the protestant preacher Arndt von Kirchbach and his socially and literarily active wife Esther that Ursula zu Münster met her friend Ida Friederike Görres. After graduating from high school, she studied Protestant theology in Greifswald and Leipzig from 1928 to 1932.

Ursula zu Münster converted to Roman Catholicism in Dresden in 1934. She studied at the Social Women's School of the Catholic Women's Association in Munich in 1934/36. Its director, Dr. Ammann, became her godmother at the confirmation in Cardinal Faulhaber's private chapel in 1935. After her final exams, she worked enthusiastically as a social worker, among others with female migrant workers in Eisleben and with female prisoners. Book chapter: “Ein Zeugnis des Dankes für lange Strecken eines gemeinsames Weges.” In: Wanderwege. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Ida Friederike Görres, ed. Alfons Rosenberg. Zürich, München, Paderborn, Thomas Verlag, 1961, pp. 15–23.