Helga Lewandowsky

Helga Lewandowsky (born May 21, 1930 in Rockhampton , Queensland , Australia ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for 16 years .

After attending an English elementary school, she attended German secondary school in an internment camp from 1942 to 1947 . She then worked for a short time as an office assistant until she moved to Germany at the end of 1947. Here she completed a specialist teacher training course in German and English shorthand and typing . She joined the Education and Science Union . From 1966 to 1974 she was a member of the executive committee in the SPD district of Weser-Ems . She took over the chairmanship of the district women's committee for a few years and from 1972 became a member of the board in the SPD sub-district Osnabrück-Land. In addition, she was active as chairwoman at the federal and state level in the Association of Single Mothers and Fathers and as a state board member of the former Free Religious State Community , today the Humanist Association of Lower Saxony . She was a member of the Achmer municipality council from 1968 to 1971.

From June 21, 1970 to June 20, 1986 she was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (7th to 10th electoral term). From July 8, 1970 to June 20, 1986, she took over the office of secretary of the Lower Saxony state parliament, and from September 13, 1978 to June 20, 1986, she also held the office of chairman of the Committee for Social and Health Care.

Helga Lewandowsky is the mother of one child.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 235.
• Angela Dinghaus: Helga Lewandowsky . In: Bärbel Clemens (Ed.): Women make politics. Parliamentarians in Lower Saxony . Hannover 1996, pp. 116-126.