Clare Schmitt

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Clare Schmitt , b. Fauz (born April 18, 1915 in Koblenz ; † September 19, 2008 ), was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

After attending secondary school in Koblenz and studying in England and France , Schmitt worked as a foreign correspondent. She married in 1937 and later worked in her own industrial and trading company in Fulda .

Political party

Schmitt had been a member of the CDU since 1945. She was elected to the district executive committee of the CDU Fulda and was a member of the economic policy committee of the CDU Hessen . Furthermore, she founded the Women's Union in Fulda in 1957 , where she was chairwoman for the first ten years.

MPs

Schmitt was a city councilor in the city of Fulda from 1946 to 1948. She was a member of the German Bundestag from 1957 to 1961. There she was one of the first women to serve on the Defense Committee. Her central theme was the concerns of women, "namely questions of married and unmarried women, housewives and working women", as it says in her résumé. She turned down another term because she considered it incompatible with the upbringing of her three children. It was drawn into parliament via the state list of the CDU Hessen.

Honors

In 1999 she received the Federal Cross of Merit

literature

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