Brunhild Wendel

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Brunhild Wendel (born Brunhild Barchmann ; born November 24, 1923 in Dresden ; † October 2, 2009 ) was a German politician ( SPD ). She was a member of the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein , mayor of Schacht-Audorf and in this office the longest-serving mayor in Germany.

Life

Brunhild Wendel was born in Dresden and attended high school. During the Second World War , she did her Reich Labor Service and was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which she was released at the end of 1946. Among other things, she worked in law firms and a major bank in Kiel , and from 1959 she ran an old people's and nursing home of the German Red Cross in Schacht-Audorf. In 1962 she joined the SPD. In the municipal administration she worked from 1963 to 1965 as an administrative clerk.

In 1966 she was elected mayor of Schacht-Audorf. She held the office that she was the first woman to take up until 1993. In 1966 she was elected to the district council of the Rendsburg district (from 1970 Rendsburg-Eckernförde district ) and was deputy district president .

In 1971 she entered the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein via the SPD state list . In 1975 and 1979 she was re-elected via the state list. She was a member of the state parliament until the end of the legislative period in 1983. In 1979 she took part in the 7th Federal Assembly.

Brunhild Wendel was married three times and had two children. Her third husband, a teacher, was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Schacht-Audorf municipal council.

She was a member of the state board of the Schleswig-Holstein community assembly as well as the state board of workers 'welfare , in the German Citizens' Association and in the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge .

Lothar Hay as interim president of the constituent meeting of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament on 27 October 2009. praised Brunhild spiral after her death as "a can-do, quite militant Social Democrat, the passion and deep conviction for their fellow men campaigned".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Jensen: Schacht-Audorf mourns: Former Mayor Brunhild Wendel is dead  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Kieler Nachrichten online from October 4, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kn-online.de  
  2. ↑ Plenary minutes 17/01 of October 27, 2009 (PDF file; 134 kB)
  3. ↑ a b c Honors in Schacht-Audorf
personal data
SURNAME Wendel, Brunhild
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barchmann, Brunhild (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 2009