Maria Schweitzer

Maria Schweitzer (born October 28, 1902 in Lebach ; † January 26, 1991 there ) was a Saarland politician.

education and profession

Schweitzer completed an apprenticeship at the Catholic teacher training college in Saarburg and passed the exam as a primary school teacher in 1923. She then studied Romance languages in Grenoble , Lausanne , Berlin , Marburg and Bonn, and finally did her PhD. phil. She then taught at several schools. After the war she became a councilor and later to upper Councilor appointed.

Politics and public offices

From 1951 she worked for the Christian People's Party of the Saarland (CVP). From January 1956 she was a member of the Saarland state parliament and was appointed chairman by her parliamentary group. However, due to a decision by the Constitutional Commission, she lost her mandate again in April of the same year (in favor of Karl-Heinz Buchholz , DPS ).

After the dissolution of the CVP, Schweitzer joined the Saarland People's Party (SVP) and was able to win another mandate in the December 1960 election . In April 1965 she became chairwoman of the newly formed SVP / CVP and was able to move into the state parliament one last time in the subsequent election , to which she belonged as a member of the CDU parliamentary group from October 1965 .

From 1952 to 1972 Schweitzer was also active in various committees of the Saarland Broadcasting Corporation , most recently as chairwoman of the program advisory board.

Awards

Schweitzer was awarded the papal order Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice . She is also the holder of the Saarland Order of Merit (1975) and the Peter Wust Prize .

Web links

• Maria Schweitzer on saarland-biografien.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 34 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken July 11, 1975, p. 870 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; accessed on May 25, 2017]).