Marie-Elisabeth Klee

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Marie-Elisabeth Clara Wilhelmine Cornelia Klee , b. Freiin von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (born January 13, 1922 in Worms ; † February 11, 2018 at the Nonnenhof ) was a German politician ( CDU ). She was a member of the German Bundestag from 1961 to 1972 .

Life

Marie-Elisabeth Klee was the daughter of the Hessian state parliament member Ludwig von Heyl zu Herrnsheim and granddaughter of the Worms factory owner Cornelius Wilhelm von Heyl zu Herrnsheim . After completing her Abitur in 1940 at the Eleonorenschule in Worms, she completed an apprenticeship in housekeeping at the rural women’s school in Obernkirchen by 1941 and then did Reich labor service . Because of the Second World War , she had to give up her history studies, which she started at the University of Frankfurt in 1942, in the same year. From 1942 until the end of the war, she worked for the Foreign Office's archives commission , from 1944 as an assistant. In 1945 she married the diplomat Eugen Klee and spent several years in Latin America . After his death in 1957/58 she continued her education at the Language and Interpreting Institute in Munich .

Marie-Elisabeth Klee joined the CDU in 1958. She was active in the women's association of the CDU . From 1959 she was chairwoman of the women's association of the CDU Worms and in 1963 she became district chairwoman of the women's association of the CDU Rheinhessen. From 1964 she was a member of the executive board of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate . In the Bundestag elections in 1961 , 1965 and 1969 , she entered the German Bundestag via the CDU's state list , to which she belonged until 1972. From 1965 to 1973 she was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Western European Union (WEU).

From 1973 to 1978 Marie-Elisabeth Klee headed the foreign affairs department in the Ministry of Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1986 to 1993 she was chairwoman of the German Committee of UNICEF .

Most recently she lived on the old Nonnenhof family estate in Bobenheim-Roxheim until her death on February 11, 2018 . She was 96 years old.

Honors

literature

  • Jörg Koch: "Marie-Elisabeth Klee, Die Kunst der Diplomatie", in: Veronik Heimkreitner, Ulrike Schäfer (Eds.): Wormserinnen , Worms Verlag, Worms 2016, ISBN 978-3-944380-56-8 , pp. 170– 176.
  • Jörg Koch: Marie-Elisabeth Klee. Life pictures of a European woman from Worms. Worms Verlag, Worms 2017, ISBN 978-3-944380-57-5 .
  • Marie-Elisabeth Klee , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 30/1987 of July 13, 1987, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Petra Lambertz: Dr. Dr. Eugen and Marie-Elisabeth Klee, A Married Couple Writes Contemporary History , Heimatjahrbuch (HJB) Cochem-Zell 2019, pp. 145–154.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marie-Elisabeth Klee passed away . Nibelungen Kurier, February 12, 2018, accessed on February 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ CDU Worms: Former member of the Bundestag Marie-Elisabeth Klee honored for 60 years of loyalty to the CDU. CDU Worms, February 10, 2018, accessed on February 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Handbook of the German Bundestag. Material No. 127 of the Scientific Services of the German Bundestag from April 1998, p. 107, ISSN  0344-9130 , pdf version, 1.20 MB
personal data
SURNAME Klee, Marie-Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klee, Marie-Elisabeth Clara Wilhelmine Cornelia (full name); Heyl zu Herrnsheim, Marie-Elisabeth Clara Wilhelmine Cornelia Freiin von (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2018
Place of death Bobenheim-Roxheim