Brigitte Freyh

Brigitte Freyh , b. Mayer (born April 25, 1924 in Ahrensdorf ; † September 13, 2009 ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

From 1969 to 1972 she was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation .

Life

After graduating from high school in Berlin in 1942 , Brigitte Freyh studied history, German literature and philosophy in Marburg , Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main . During the Second World War she worked as a primary school teacher. At the age of 18 she joined the NSDAP in 1942 ( membership number 9.213.946).

In 1949 she joined the Socialist German Student Union and in 1951 became a member of the SPD. In 1959 she became managing director of the Walter Kolb Foundation in Frankfurt am Main. From 1973 to 1981 she was the curator of the German Foundation for International Development. From 1982 to 1988 she worked for the German Society for Technical Cooperation .

Brigitte Freyh was a council member of the city of Frankfurt / Main from 1956 to 1961. On December 22, 1961, she stood up for the resigned MP Georg-August Zinn in the Bundestag. She was then a member of the German Bundestag until 1972 . She entered the Bundestag in 1961 via the Hesse state list and otherwise always as a directly elected member of the Frankfurt II constituency .

Brigitte Freyh was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt on October 22, 1969 . After the 1972 Bundestag election , she left office on December 15, 1972.

See also

• Brandt I cabinet

Web links

• Literature by and about Brigitte Freyh in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Violence: Members of the Bundestag / I.-X. Legislative period: Former NSDAP and / or branch memberships. (PDF) Willi-Bredel -Gesellschaft Geschichtswerkstatt eV, October 20, 2005, p. 3 , accessed on January 20, 2020 .