Her parents were members of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Confessing Church and opponents of National Socialist ideology.

[1] Christina Fiedler attended primary and secondary school in Chemnitz from 1923 to 1932 and, at her mother's insistence, completed an apprenticeship as a dressmaker from 1932 to 1935 before studying fashion design for two semesters at the Europäischen Meisterakademie in Munich.

During the war against the Soviet Union, large parts of the company's industrial vehicle fleet were expropriated by the SS in 1941 and taken to Russia.

[2] In 1952, Christina Schultheiß completed her studies as a construction technician and civil engineer and graduated as a master road builder in 1961.

As President of the Thuringian Synod, she also worked in the areas of finance, forestry, agriculture and church building.

Former bishop Werner Leichconsidered that her practical mind and sense of reality "often brought us pastors back down to earth" and that "she was a gift for our church".

The meeting is regarded as one of the foundation of the increasing self-confidence of East German Christians, which was later one of the decisive factors for the peaceful reunification of Germany between 1989 and 1991.