Mechthild from Alemann

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Mechthild von Alemann (born January 29, 1937 in Seebach , Province of Saxony ) is a German politician ( FDP ). She was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1975 to 1980 and a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1984 and from 1989 to 1994 .

Life

Mechthild von Alemann was born as the daughter of the businessman Hans Heine von Alemann. She graduated from school in 1955, then attended an interpreting school and then worked as a foreign correspondent for English in various companies from 1957 to 1960. From 1968 she worked as a librarian for a management consultancy. In 1966 von Alemann became a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). From 1975 she was chairwoman of the FDP local association Düsseldorf -Nord, from 1975 deputy chairwoman of the FDP district association Düsseldorf, and in 1978 became deputy chairwoman of the district association Düsseldorf.

From 1968 to 1975 she was a citizen representative in Düsseldorf. She was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament in the eighth electoral term and was a member of it from May 28, 1975 to May 28, 1980. At the Federal Representative Assembly of the FDP for the first direct election of the European Parliament , she was elected to second place on the federal list on February 3, 1979 , and was a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1984 and from 1989 to 1994, and for the last five years she was deputy leader of the Liberal parliamentary group (ALDE) .

From 1981 to 1985 she was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

Documents about her political activities are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

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Individual evidence

  1. Information from the Order's Chancellery in the Office of the Federal President.