Ingrid Biedenkopf

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Ingrid Biedenkopf with her husband Kurt (2010)
Ingrid Biedenkopf (4th from left) next to her husband on his 80th birthday (2010)
Kurt and Ingrid Biedenkopf after winning the state elections in Saxony in 1990

Ingrid Biedenkopf (born April 8, 1931 in Saarbrücken ; born Ingrid Ries , divorced Ingrid Kuhbier ) is a German sponsor. Her husband Kurt Biedenkopf was from November 1990 to April 2002 Prime Minister in Saxony .

Life

Ingrid Ries came as the daughter of the industrialist Fritz Ries (1907–1977) and his first wife, the dentist's daughter Rita Ries, nee. Heinemann, to the world. After completing her studies and graduating as a commercial clerk, she joined her father's Pegulan works in Frankenthal (Palatinate) .

After the divorce of her first marriage, she married Kurt Biedenkopf, then member of the Bundestag, in December 1979 . When he was elected as the first Prime Minister after the re-establishment of the Free State of Saxony in November 1990 , Ingrid Biedenkopf became the Prime Minister's wife - widely referred to as the First Lady . She took on numerous honorary positions and appeared as a promoter of social and cultural projects. Among other things, she campaigned for scleroderma patients and traumatic brain injuries . With her private assets and donations, she founded the Ingrid Biedenkopf - Multiple Sclerosis Foundation . She recruited sponsors for the rebuilding of the Dresden Frauenkirche and the renovation of the Aegidienkirche in Oschatz .

criticism

Towards the end of his term as Prime Minister of Saxony in 2001 and 2002, Biedenkopf and her husband were the subject of media interest with several affairs . Among other things, Ingrid Biedenkopf was criticized because she had obtained a discount of 132 D-Marks by influencing employees when shopping in an Ikea store , which was not compatible with the guidelines of the group. During the discount affair , Kurt Biedenkopf was asked from various quarters to resign from his post as Prime Minister.

In addition, the Biedenkopf couple was criticized because Ingrid Biedenkopf was financed an office from the budget of the Saxon State Chancellery without exercising a public office or mandate . Employees worked in the office who were paid for their husband's office with funds from the Saxon state parliament, which led the opposition to demands for repayment.

Honor

On August 19, 2010 she was awarded the Saxon Order of Merit.

literature

  • Albin Nees (Hrsg.): The country mother: honorary office with honorary title; Festschrift for Ingrid Biedenkopf on her 70th birthday . Concepcion Seidel, Hammerbrücke 2001.
  • Klaus Huhn : The flat-nosed pliers from the west . Spotless, Berlin 2010, ISBN 9783360020369 , pp. 42-46.
  • Michael Bartsch : The Biedenkopf system. The court state of Saxony and its good subjects or: how democracy came to the dog in Saxony. A report. Edition Ost, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-360-01029-9 , pp. 68-83.

Web links

Commons : Ingrid Biedenkopf  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The list of Biedenkopf's affairs is long: dream ship, service villa and Ikea discount In: handelsblatt.com . December 14, 2001, accessed September 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ Kurt Biedenkopf - "Then we can all cross" . In: Spiegel Online . January 16, 2002, accessed September 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ After the Ikea discount affair: Biedenkopf no longer excludes resignation . rp-online.de . December 29, 2001, accessed September 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ Discount affair: Party friends also suggest Biedenkopf's resignation . In: Spiegel Online . December 23, 2001, accessed September 21, 2016.
  5. ^ Kurt Biedenkopf: Private help at state expense . In: tagesspiegel.de . June 7, 2001, accessed September 21, 2016.
  6. ↑ Biedenkopf's wife did not go into the air privately . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . April 25, 2001, accessed on September 21, 2001 at http://www.karl-nolle.de/dokumentation/biedenkopf/typ/2/id/3407 .
  7. ↑ Order for ex-national mother Ingrid Biedenkopf . In: Sächsische Zeitung online. August 19, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Biedenkopf, Ingrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ries, Ingrid (maiden name); Cow beer, Ingrid (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wife of the former Prime Minister of Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken