Ingeborg Geisendörfer

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Ingeborg Geisendörfer , b. Schaudig, (born May 30, 1907 in Dillingen an der Donau , † June 25, 2006 in Würzburg ) was a German politician of the CSU .

Life and work

Geisendörfer, who was of Protestant faith, attended the Luisenlyzeum in Dillingen until 1921 and then the teacher training institute in Munich , where she not only passed the teacher examination but also the Abitur in 1927 . From 1927 to 1940 she worked as a teacher in Neuhardenberg , Munich and Rosenheim . After her marriage to Pastor Robert Geisendörfer , after whom the Robert Geisendörfer Prize is named, in 1940 she left school. In addition to her work as a pastor's wife, she was also active in the Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria . She was a member of the federal board of the German-Evangelical Women's Association. She later became a member of the administrative board of the German Atomic Forum and in 1959 was the first woman to be a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . In April 1970 Geisendörfer was appointed to the Criminal Law Commission of the Evangelical Church in Germany . In 1988/89 she was the first female president of the German UNESCO Commission , after having been its vice-president from 1969 to 1988.

Political party

Geisendörfer joined the CSU after 1945 and became deputy state chairwoman of the women's working group and the evangelical working group .

MPs

Ingeborg Geisendörfer was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1972. From 1961 to 1965 she was deputy chairwoman of the Bundestag committee for nuclear energy and water management and from 1965 to 1969 of the committee for science, cultural policy and journalism.

On June 18, 1970, she abstained from the vote on the 26th law amending the Basic Law , which lowered the voting age to 18 years (Art. 38 GG) and made the federal government responsible for university construction (Art. 91a GG) , contrary to the majority vote of their group, which approved the constitutional amendment. The reason for the abstention was that the age limit was not also lowered from 21 to 18 at the same time . Ingeborg Geisendörfer was the only MP who refused to approve the amendment to the Basic Law because it did not go far enough. Three other members of the Union and SPD ( Linus Memmel , Fritz Kempfler and Klaus-Peter Schulz ) abstained because they agreed to the federal responsibility for university construction but rejected the lowering of the voting age, the FDP parliamentary group voted unanimously in favor of the constitutional amendment.

After the failed vote of no confidence against Willy Brandt Geisendörfer was suspected, without prejudice to the line of her group for Rainer Barzel to have voted. Although she denied this, the speculation meant that she was no longer set up by the CSU in the 1972 federal election . In 1978 the press suspected that Geisendörfer had admitted in an alleged "small circle" and later in an alleged answer to a journalist that he had not voted for Barzel in 1972. Geisendörfer denied this, and relatively quickly - and under threat of a fine of 500,000 DM - the press organ was forbidden from repeating the relevant allegations.

Geisendörfer received high honors for their services, including the Bavarian Order of Merit (1962), the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in silver and the Great Federal Cross of Merit (1986) and the Great Federal Cross of Merit with Star (1987).

literature

  • Felix Heidenberger: The bell ringer from the Bundestag - Ingeborg Geisendörfer: A life in the service of politics and the church. Munich 2001, ISBN 3-583-33109-5 .

Publications

  • Robert Geisendörfer: For the freedom of journalism. Stuttgart 1978.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simone Mantei, No and Yes to Abortion - The Protestant Church in the Reform Debate on § 218 (1970 - 1976), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-55738-8 , page 56.
  2. ^ Website of the German UNESCO Commission
  3. ↑ Homepage. German UNESCO Commission, accessed on March 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Nothing defamatory . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1978, p. 31-32 ( Online - May 29, 1978 ).
  5. ↑ Ingeborg Geisendörfer: Nothing defamatory - reply . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1978, p. 101 ( online - 26 June 1978 ).
  6. ↑ Andreas Grau: In search of the missing votes 1972. On the aftermath of the failed vote of no confidence in Barzel / Brandt. In: Historical-Political Messages. Archive for Christian Democratic Politics , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, No. 16, December 30, 2009, p. 13f. ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Geisendörfer, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaudig, Ingeborg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillingen on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2006
Place of death Wurzburg