Evelyne Marie France Neff

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Evelyne Marie France Neff (born October 12, 1941 in Hussigny-Godbrange , France ) is a politician with German and French citizenship . She received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her political commitment .

Political career

The classical philologist Neff got involved under the influence of Willy Brandt and Pius Kopp in the SPD -Ortsverein Schramberg and in the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Schramberg. In 1973 she first became the local association chairwoman, then the district chairwoman of the SPD. She was elected to the state executive committee of the SPD Baden-Württemberg and also took on responsibility at the federal level of the SPD. Among other things, she was one of the chairmen of the Working Group of Social Democratic Women (ARSP). With the end of the socially liberal Schmidt government, Neff withdrew from federal and state politics. She acquired a district mandate for the SPD in the Rottweil district , which she held for over twenty years until the beginning of 2003. In 2003 Evelyne Neff received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her political commitment - as well as her voluntary work - and her efforts to promote Franco-German friendship .

Others

Evelyne Neff married Winfried Neff from Saulgau in 1962 . The later senior teacher for French and history taught at the Schramberg grammar school . He died of cancer in 1992. Evelyne Neff is the mother of three children and the grandmother of six grandchildren. The geographer Christophe Neff is one of her children.

Neff has largely withdrawn from political and public life. She lives on the edge of the Schramberg area in Sulz am Neckar . At times she also lives in Leucate in southern France, where she devotes herself to watercolor and landscape painting, among other things. She also runs a German-French blog, which is mainly devoted to European social democracy, German-French relations as well as Leucate and the Schramberg area .

Individual evidence

  1. [1] Evelyne Neff's statement on the Wikipedia article about her person and her entry into the SPD in her autobiographical blog [2] on LeMonde.fr
  2. ^ Report of the SPD local association Schramberg on the award of the Federal Cross of Merit to Evelyne Neff ( Memento from January 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. famillenounouneff.blog.lemonde.fr