Lieselotte Berger

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Lieselotte Berger (center, standing) at a reception for 15 Berlin handicapped people in the Federal Chancellery in 1989

Lieselotte Berger (born November 13, 1920 in Berlin-Spandau ; † September 26, 1989 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

From 1987 until her death, she was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Chancellor and authorized representative of the Federal Government in Berlin.

Life

After attending middle school, Lieselotte Berger worked as an office worker in Berlin from 1937 to 1945. In 1942 she passed the Abitur . After the end of World War II she worked until 1947 as an interpreter for English . From 1948 to 1954 she then completed a degree in sociology , philosophy and journalism at the Free University of Berlin . She had been working as a journalist since 1950 . In 1958 she joined the regional office of the Berlin CDU as a consultant and worked from 1959 to 1963 as a consultant to the governing mayor of the Senate Chancellery. She then headed the exhibition department in the Press and Information Office of the State of Berlin.

Lieselotte Berger joined the NSDAP at the age of 18 . Since 1958 she was a member of the CDU. Here she was mainly involved in the women's association , of which she was the Berlin state chairman from 1960 to 1969. In addition, she was a member of the federal executive committee of the CDU women's association from 1962 to 1973. Since 1965 she was a member of the CDU state executive in Berlin and from 1973 deputy CDU state chairwoman in Berlin.

On August 26, 1971, when she replaced the resigned MP Karl-Heinz Schmitz , she entered the German Bundestag as a Berlin MP. She was then a member of the German Bundestag until her death . From 1972 to 1987 she was chairman of the Petitions Committee .

After the federal elections in 1987 , she was appointed to the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl on March 12, 1987 as Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Chancellor and authorized representative of the Federal Government in Berlin . She held this office until her death.

From 1981 to 1988 Lieselotte Berger was a member of the board of trustees of the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation .

Lieselotte Berger died on September 26th in her hometown of Berlin. She was buried at the In den Kisseln cemetery in Berlin-Spandau in an honorary grave of the State of Berlin.

Honors

Honorary grave of Lieselotte Bergers

In November 1996 a street and a square were named after her in Berlin-Rudow .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Violence: Members of the Bundestag / I.-X. Legislative period: Former NSDAP and / or branch memberships. (PDF) Willi-Bredel -Gesellschaft Geschichtswerkstatt eV, October 20, 2005, p. 1 , accessed on January 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ "If you have trouble with the authorities, contact Lilo Berger." Right in the middle, Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation's website, accessed on August 19, 2020
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 . April 23, 2012, p. 752, accessed April 15, 2020 (PDF; 6.6 MB).
  4. ↑ District Office Neukölln of Berlin, Renate Bremmert (Ed.): The Rudow women's quarter - the women who gave their name to the Neukölln women's quarter.
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Lieselotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1989
Place of death Berlin