Hildegard Schwigon

Hildegard Schwigon (born May 26, 1930 in Stuttgart ) is a German politician ( CDU ). She was a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament from 1976 to 1980.

Life

Hildegard Schwigon attended high school and then a home economics school. Then she worked at the social and youth welfare office of the city of Stuttgart. After they got married, she looked after the family and helped in her husband's engineering office. She was a member of the German Child Protection Association and responsible for the Child in the Hospital campaign in Baden-Württemberg.

Political activity

At the beginning of the 1970s she became a CDU member and chairwoman of the Stuttgart district women’s association, member of the Stuttgart district board and district adviser in Stuttgart-Vaihingen .

In 1976 she was elected to the Baden-Württemberg state parliament in the Stuttgart II constituency. Her focus was on social policy . In 1980 she had to cede her constituency to Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder . When she was proposed as the women's representative for Baden-Württemberg, she declined with the words: "First you kick women out of the parliaments and then something like that happens."

literature

• Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German parliamentarians from 1919 until today . Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-923476-15-9 , pp. 224 f .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German parliamentarians from 1919 until today . Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-923476-15-9 , pp. 225 .