Lieselotte Holzmeister

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Lieselotte Holzmeister , b. Ohnsorge (born February 8, 1921 in Iserlohn ; † June 29, 1994 in Salzburg , Austria ) was a German publisher and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Lieselotte Holzmeister with Carl Orff at the Fidula conference in Salzburg (1956)

After graduating from high school in 1940, Lieselotte Holzmeister completed a commercial apprenticeship in Prague at the Königin-Luise-Schule in Düsseldorf , where she worked as a secretary. She was interned in May 1945 and expelled from Czechoslovakia in August of the same year . Afterwards she moved to West Germany as a displaced person and settled in Stuttgart in 1946 . Together with her husband Johannes Holzmeister, whom she married in 1944, she founded the Fidula publishing house for youth and school music in 1948 . She supported her husband with her own texts on song compositions and translations of folk and children's songs, primarily from France (e.g. meow meow ) and other European countries. From 1958 to 1977 she lived in Boppard , then in Salzburg until her death.

Political party

Holzmeister joined the CDU in 1960 and was the founder and chairwoman of the women's association in the Sankt Goar district .

MPs

From 1960 to 1975, Holzmeister was a councilor for the city ​​of Boppard . She belonged to the German Bundestag from February 5, 1968, when she replaced the late MP Paul Gibbert , until 1969. She entered parliament through the Rhineland-Palatinate state list.

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