Sigrid Schneider

This article deals with the politician Sigrid Schneider. For information on the pedagogue and social worker, see Sigrid Schneider-Grube .

Sigrid Schneider (born August 7, 1928 in Hanover ; † November 21, 1995 in Burgwedel ) was a German politician ( FDP ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

After elementary school, Sigrid Scheider attended a girls' high school in Berlin until the end of the Second World War . She fled to Eichsfeld in 1945 and came to Hanover the following year. After a vocational training as shorthand - a clerk , she worked at the Hanover City Council until 1956 in companies in the Lower Saxony government and semi-public institutions. In 1963 she took part in a teacher training course on dealing with mentally handicapped children and gained access to teaching activities. She trained as a community college assistant, completed a supplementary course at the Hanover University of Education and worked as a housewife teacher. After two teacher exams, she passed the first state examination for teaching at special schools in 1976 and became a special school teacher. Schneider did volunteer work in the female prison system.

Schneider joined the FDP in 1972 and became a state board member. In 1974 she was elected to the council of Garbsen , took over the chairmanship of the council group of the FDP in 1976 and worked in Garbsen as second deputy mayor from 1981. Between September 1981 and May 1982 she was a member of the district council in the district of Hanover. From June 21, 1982 to June 20, 1990 she was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (10th and 11th electoral terms); from July 10, 1986 to June 20, 1990, she chaired the Committee on Equality and Women's Issues.

She had three children.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 339.
• Bärbel Clemens: Women make politics. Parliamentarians in Lower Saxony. Torch bearer, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7716-1585-2 , p. 311ff.
• Klaus Mlynek : SCHNEIDER, (2) Sigrid. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 320 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Klaus Mlynek: Schneider, (2) Sigrid. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein u. a. (Ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 457.