Brunhilde Peter

Brunhilde "Bruni" Peter (* October 4, 1925 as Brunhilde Danz in Mainz ; † January 21, 2014 ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Peter studied German, Catholic theology and philosophy and received his doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1964 she joined the SPD. In 1965 she was one of the founding members of the adult education center in Dillingen , for whose work she was committed for over 40 years. At the same time she was President of the Saarland Adult Education Association. In 1970 she was elected to the Saarland state parliament for the first time , to which she also belonged in the following three legislative periods. For seven years of that time she was the parliamentary group's spokesperson for education policy. In 1973 she founded the regional association of the Working Group of Social Democratic Women (AsF) in Saarland and became its chairman. She also worked on the board at the federal level. When the SPD first achieved a majority in the Saarland state parliament in 1985, it became Minister for Social Affairs, Labor and Health and Deputy Prime Minister in the Lafontaine I cabinet . In the Lafontaine II cabinet she was Minister for Labor and Women from February 21, 1990 to February 18, 1991. After her departure from state politics, as chairwoman of the “AG 60 plus”, she increasingly campaigned for the interests of older people. In 1996 she was appointed by the Federal SPD to head the party's senior citizens' council.

Brunhilde Peter was married to Rudi Peter. She became the mother of two sons and the Green politician Simone Peter . She lived in Dillingen / Saar.

Works

• Brunhilde Peter: The theological-philosophical world of thoughts of Heinrich Frauenlob . Speyer 1957 (Diss.)

literature

• Brunhilde Peter , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 26/1991 from June 17, 1991, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Brunhilde Peter died. Obituary on the Saarländischer Rundfunk website on January 22, 2014