Early Life
Ranke-Heinemann's parents were Protestants (Calvinistic). Her father Gustav Heinemann was an SPD politician and president of Germany 1969–74. Her mother Hilda Heinemann, a descendant of Albrecht von Haller studied theology under Rudolf Bultmann at the University of Marburg. In 1944, Hilda brought Uta to Bultmann as a refugee after Essen was heavily bombed. Uta lived with Rudolf Bultmann's family until the end of the war 1945. She was the first and only girl at the Burggymnasium Essen, which was founded in the 9th century and passed her final examinations (Abitur) "with distinction", the only one of her class. "Abitur with distinction" was rare at the time, the last one at Burggymnasium happened 30 years before.
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