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Sister Maria Basina Kloos was awarded the Peter Wust prize on 29 March 2009.

Maria Basina Kloos FBMVA (born Dorothea Kloos in February 1940) is a German religious sister. She has served several terms as Superior general of the Waldbreitbacher Franciscan sisters between 1988 and 1994, and again between 2000 and 2012.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

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Dorothea Kloos was born in Bad Gams, a small market town nearby Graz in Austria. Slightly unusually, the family into which she was born was both Catholic and Protestant.[5] She grew up in Idar-Oberstein, a town in the hills north of Saarbrücken. When she was young, Kloos planned to become a criminologist and sat the necessary exam to embark on the training, then she determined to become a teacher.

In 1957, when she was 17, she entered the Waldbreitbacher Franciscan community, taking the religious name Maria Basina.[4] Her management skills seem to have been spotted early on: at the age of 23, she was entrusted the charge of the commercial and administrative functions at one of the hospitals of the congregation.[1] Between 1976 and 1988 she served as vicar general of the congregation.[1] In 1988, she was appointed Superior general, serving till 1994. She served as general secreatary to the German conference of major religious superiors between 1995 and 1998.[6] She served a further term as Superior general from 2000 till 2012.[3]

In August 2012 Basina Kloos took over as co-managing director of the Marienhaus Gesundheits- und Sozialholding GmbH company in Trier, one of the largest Christian social welfare institutions in Germany.[5] She stepped down from the post in 2015, a few months after her 75th birthday.[7]

Awards and honours (selection)

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Schwester Basina wurde als Dorothea Kloos im österreichischen Bad Gams geboren ..." Sechs Persönlichkeiten mit dem Saarländischen Verdienstorden ausgezeichnet. Staatskanzlei, Saarland Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Saarbrücken. 1 February 2012. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Sr. Basina Kloos als Generaloberin wiedergewählt". Bischöfliches Generalvikariat, Trier. 1 July 2006. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Mutter Rosa war eine Kämpferin". Mutter Rosa (1826-1906), die am Sonntag im Trierer Dom seliggesprochen wird, war Gründerin und erste Generaloberin der Waldbreitbacher Franziskanerinnen. Heute wird der Westerwälder Orden von Schwester Basina Kloos (68) geführt. Trierischer Volksfreund. 2 May 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  4. ^ a b Nadine Millich (9 May 2014). "Die Architektin". Porträt über Schwester M. Basina Kloos. Bibliomed - Medizinische Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (Die Schwester Der Pfleger), Melsungen. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b Stefanie Widmann (22 August 2012). "Eine Ordnungsschwester als Managerin" (PDF). Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main GmbH. K.G. & Co. (Allgemeine Zeitung). Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Zur Person". Trierischer Volksfreund. 22 December 2003. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Eine außergewöhnliche Frau sagt tschüss". Sie gilt als einflussreichste Frau in der Katholischen Kirche Deutschlands, Visionärin, Querdenkerin, harte Verhandlerin und Frauenrechtlerin: Schwester Basina Kloos. Mit einem Dankgottesdienst und einem Festakt wurde ... Trierischer Volksfreund. 4 October 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Sechs Persönlichkeiten mit dem Saarländischen Verdienstorden ausgezeichnet".
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