Karin Stoiber

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Karin Stoiber born Rudolf (born July 6, 1943 in Buchau , then Reichsgau Sudetenland ) is the wife of Edmund Stoiber , who was Prime Minister of the Free State of Bavaria from 1993 to 2007 . In 2009, Karin Stoiber was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit as the “patron and godmother of charitable and social projects” .

Live and act

Karin Stoiber was born the daughter of a seamstress in the Sudetenland , her father was a member of the city council. After the end of the Second World War , when the Potsdam Agreement came into force, she and her family had to leave Czechoslovakia as a displaced person . She completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk in Bavaria and worked in a bank in Geretsried .

At the BC Farchet soccer club , she met her future husband Edmund Stoiber in 1963, whom she married in 1968. The couple live in Wolfratshausen and have three children.

Karin Stoiber - who was often referred to as the “ First Lady ” of the Free State during her husband's tenure - enjoys a high reputation in Bavaria - especially her warmth is seen as a “contrast program” to Edmund Stoiber's appearance. In her work for charity, she pays special attention to children and young people as well as to the elderly. She is the patron of the first children's hospice in southern Germany, which opened in Bad Grönenbach in 2007 . She raised 2.5 million euros in donations for the “ St. Nikolaus Children's Hospice ”. She worked voluntarily or as a godmother for around forty social institutions.

Karin Stoiber has been an honorary member of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft since 2007 . On July 9, 2009, she and 67 other people were awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stoiber, Edmund: Because the world is changing: Politics out of passion - experiences and perspectives . Siedler, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-06743-3 .
  2. ↑ 68 personalities honored with the Bavarian Order of Merit . In: tz of July 9, 2009, ZDB -ID 1335609-4 .
  3. ↑ a b c Annette Ramelsberger: His better half - portrait of Karin Stoiber. In: "Süddeutsche Zeitung" of September 22, 2007.
  4. ^ A b Gerhard Meirs: Celebrity of the Week: Karin Stoiber In: "Die Welt" of July 6, 2003, ISSN  0173-8437 .
  5. ↑ a b Schröder and Stoiber: Two lives, two worlds . In: "Die Welt" from September 22, 2002.
  6. ↑ Wolftrud Rösel-Nahr: Fateful Companion and Power Woman (PDF; 774 kB) . In: Sudetendeutsche Zeitung No. 17/2007, ISSN  0491-4546
  7. ↑ Karin Stoiber receives the Bavarian Order of Merit . In: "Süddeutsche Zeitung" of July 8, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Stoiber, Karin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Book, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank clerk, wife of a Bavarian Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchau , Luditz district