Daniela Schadt

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Daniela Schadt (2017)

Daniela Schadt (born January 3, 1960 in Hanau ) is a German journalist and the partner of the former German President Joachim Gauck .

Career

Daniela Schadt (left) at the 4th Philosophy Festival in Hanover

Schadt's parents owned the Hanau paint factory Schadt & Co. KG , founded in 1927 . In 1978, she put on the Karl Rehbein-school her hometown of the High School from. She then studied German , politics and French literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . She completed her studies in 1985 with a Magister Artium . Initially, Schadt began an internship at Hanauer Anzeiger . In 1986 she came to the Nürnberger Zeitung as a freelancer . After a traineeship , Schadt worked there from 1992 as an editor and later as head of the internal affairs department . After Gauck's election as Federal President, she stopped her journalistic activities.

In the Nuremberg press club , she volunteered as an assessor on the board. During Joachim Gauck's term of office, she was the patron of the German Children and Youth Foundation and, like before her, the wives of all previous federal presidents, the patron of UNICEF and the maternal recovery organization .

Personal

She has been in a relationship with Joachim Gauck since 2000. The two got to know each other at one of his lectures in Nuremberg . Gauck was the federal commissioner for the Stasi files at the time . She is unmarried and has no children. Instead of Gauck's wife (from whom he lives separately) Daniela Schadt accompanied her partner to his public meetings and took on representative and charitable tasks at his side.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Daniela Schadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. a b Pamela Dörhöfer, Peter Hanack: Joachim Gauck and Daniela Schadt: The First Lady from Hanau . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 17, 2012.
  2. a b Christina Hebel: Next First Lady: Daniela who? , Spiegel Online , March 18, 2012.
  3. Uta Keseling: Presidential election: Daniela Schadt, Germany's first “first girlfriend” . In: Die Welt , March 18, 2012.
  4. Daniela Schadt: The strong woman at Gauck's side . In: Handelsblatt , February 20, 2012.
  5. ^ Website of the DKJS; accessed on October 8, 2016
  6. ^ Schadt new patroness of Unicef , Neue Presse of May 24, 2012, accessed on May 30, 2012.
  7. The patroness. The First Lady and the Mother Recovery Work. (No longer available online.) Maternal recovery work, archived from the original on July 8, 2013 ; accessed on July 24, 2020 .
  8. The Hans Rosenthal Prize of Honor. Retrieved May 31, 2017 .