Marie-Luise Kiesinger

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Marie-Luise Kiesinger (née Schneider ; born March 27, 1908 in Berlin ; † November 15, 1990 in Tübingen ) was the wife of Kurt Georg Kiesinger .

Life

Marie-Luise Schneider was born in Berlin as the daughter of the notary and lawyer Peter Schneider and his wife Barbara. In February 1927, the then 18-year-old high school student met the 23-year-old student Kurt Georg Kiesinger at a Rose Monday ball held by the Askania Catholic student association . Both got engaged a short time later and married at Christmas 1932.

Marie-Luise Kiesinger had started to study medicine with the support of her parents, which was still unusual for women at that time. At the suggestion of her husband, she gave up her medical studies after two semesters and instead studied philosophy and literature. "It is not flattered when you describe her as a clever, educated woman," said Kiesinger biographer Otto Rundel looking back. Marie-Luise Kiesinger was also progressive in other areas of life. Like her husband, she had already given up her driving license in the 1930s, but mostly left driving to her husband. In contrast to him, however, she did not like hiking - in an interview with journalist Günter Müggenburg she said "The importance of fresh air is greatly overestimated" - and drove in a VW convertible for the first time during a summer vacation in August 1967 while her husband went hiking which he commented with "Now suddenly she is getting revolutionary thoughts".

Kiesinger family grave, Tübingen city cemetery

Kiesinger, who had given birth to a daughter (* 1940) and a son (* 1942) during the Second World War , stayed out of the political scene. She formulated her tasks as the Chancellor's wife in an interview: “I think the most important task is to relieve my husband of such things that would be an additional burden for him. In this way I can ensure that he can actually switch off and relax in the few free hours. ”This included setting up the chancellor's houses in Bonn and Berlin.

Kiesinger rarely appeared in public, "what [she] was probably not allowed to do". She occasionally took on representative duties, for example in 1968 she organized a tea reception for the members of the main committee of the Federal Union of Women of the CDU, accompanied her husband on trips abroad, including on his first trip to America in 1967 as Chancellor and in 1969 to Japan, and in 1969 she christened the ship of TS Hamburg . She was a woman "who left the stage to the excited Kurt Georg, but who knew how to guide him in life-defining and family issues." In retrospect, Kiesinger is perceived as a Chancellor's wife who "fled completely into the familiar and thus almost into the unknown" have.

Marie-Luise Kiesinger died on November 15, 1990 in Tübingen and was buried in the city cemetery there.

literature

  • Günter Müggenburg: Marie-Luise Kiesinger, always a lady . In: Werner Höfer (ed.): Lucky with presidents, chancellors and women. A gallery in Bonn. Belser-Verlag, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-7630-1174-9 , pp. 81-85.
  • Alois Rummel : Marie-Luise Kiesinger. In: Dieter Zimmer (Ed.): Germany's First Ladies. The wives of the Federal Presidents and Chancellors from 1949 to the present day. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-421-05125-9 , pp. 99–116.
  • Marie-Luise Kiesinger . In: Helene Walterskirchen: On the side of power. Germany's first ladies. Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-800-03845-5 , pp. 137-148.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hans-Otto Kleinmann: Kurt Georg Kiesinger . In: Jürgen Aretz, Rudolf Morsey , Anton Rauscher (Eds.): Contemporary history in life pictures . Volume 7. Mainz 1994, pp. 254ff.
  2. ↑ Daniel Friedrich Sturm: On the side of power. In: welt.de . January 18, 2002, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b Philipp Gassert : Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 1904–1988 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2006, p. 54.
  4. ^ The Illustrated weekly of India . Volume 88, Issue 4, p. 95.
  5. ↑ Otto Rundel: Kurt Georg Kiesinger: his life and political work . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, p. 17.
  6. ↑ Quoted from: Philipp Gassert: Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 1904–1988 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2006, p. 54.
  7. ↑ Chancellor's vacation. Bunnies and cobwebs . In: Der Spiegel , No. 33, 1967, p. 21.
  8. ↑ Quoted from The Illustrated weekly of India . Volume 88, Issue 4, 1967, p. 95.
  9. ↑ She can't shine, she doesn't want to . In: Der Spiegel , No. 23, 1975, p. 32.
  10. ↑ Personal details . In: Union in Deutschland , No. 13, 1968, p. 3.
  11. ^ Kiesinger trip. Ship, charm and method . In: Der Spiegel , No. 33, 1967, p. 22.
  12. ^ Arnold Kludas : Pleasure trips to the sea: a history of the German cruise . Volume 2. Convent, 2003, p. 40.
  13. ↑ Ada Brandes: Because of the hopelessness… . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 6, 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Kiesinger, Marie-Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Marie-Luise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Chancellor's wife
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1990
Place of death Tübingen