Uta Ranke-Heinemann
Uta Ranke-Heinemann (2 October 1927 in Essen – 25 March 2021) was a German theologian, academic and author. She held the (nondenominational) chair of History of Religion at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Essen, her birthplace. Her father Gustav Heinemann was an SPD politician and president of Germany 1969–74.