Hildegard Goss-Mayr (born 22 January 1930, Vienna) is an Austrian nonviolent activist and Christian theologian.
Daughter of Kaspar Mayr, founder of the Austrian branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, she studied Philosophy in Vienna and New Haven.
[1] In 1958, she married Jean Goss (1912–1991), a French peace activist; the couple had two children, Myriam and Etienne.
She and her husband were in Rome during the Council Vatican II lobbying for the recognition of the conscientious objection by the Roman Catholic Church.
In the 1960s/70s, they lived and worked for some time in South America, training groups in active nonviolence and helping in the creation of the SERPAJ, Service for Peace and Justice, [2] whose first coordinator was Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.