Eva Countess Finck von Finckenstein
Eva Countess Finck von Finckenstein b. Schubring (born December 3, 1903 in Berlin , † March 13, 1994 in Santiago de Chile ) was a German politician ( GB / BHE , CDU from 1956 ).
Life
After graduating from high school at the state Augusta-Gymnasium in Berlin, Schubring, who was Protestant , studied economics at the University of Berlin .
From 1928 to 1933 she was the foreign policy correspondent for the liberal Vossische Zeitung in Berlin. In the time of National Socialism she withdrew completely from the public. When the Red Army marched in , Countess Finck von Finckenstein fled from East Prussia to Lübeck .
She was married since 1934 in her third marriage to the writer Ottfried Ernst Gotthold Count Finck von Finckenstein (1901–1987) , with whom she had five children. She had left twins from her first marriage. The seven children, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren now live all over the world.
From 1959 to 1962 she was permanent representative of the Consul General in Valparaíso / Chile and from 1962 to 1968 cultural advisor at the embassy in Ottawa / Canada.
politics
Countess Finck von Finckenstein was one of the founders of the All-German Bloc / Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised (GB / BHE) in Schleswig-Holstein .
In 1950 she ran in vain for the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein, but was then elected to the German Bundestag in 1953 . This elected her as deputy delegate of the Council of Europe. Since 1950 she has been the personal advisor to the Schleswig-Holstein Finance Minister Waldemar Kraft . Since 1952 she has been a member of the federal board of GB / BHE, whose press department she headed.
After she had not been re-elected to the party executive committee in 1954, a scandal broke out at the federal party conference in Bielefeld , as the re-elected federal chairman Kraft, whose press officer, closest adviser and good friend was Countess Finck von Finckenstein, did not take up his post. As a late consequence of this scandal in 1955, leading GB / BHE members around Kraft, Finck von Finckenstein and Theodor Oberländer , who then joined the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in 1956, left.
On June 1, 1982, Federal President Karl Carstens awarded the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany to its Federal President.
literature
- Eva Gräfin Finck von Finckenstein , In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv. 23/1956 from May 28, 1956, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Eva Countess Finck von Finckenstein in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein
Individual evidence
- ↑ (Finck von) Finckenstein, b. Schubring, Eva Countess . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 303 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finck von Finckenstein, Eva Countess |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schubring, Eva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (GB / BHE, CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1994 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |