Sonja Schmid-Burgk

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Sonja Schmid-Burgk (born May 30, 1911 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 28, 1999 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German historian and author.

After studying history in Frankfurt , Berlin , Lausanne and Leipzig , Schmid-Burgk received his doctorate. After the war she moved to Freiburg and worked in the youth newspaper “Der Fährmann” from Herder Verlag . Since 1956 she was the managing director of the branch of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Der Bürger im Staat e. V. ”in Freiburg and in 1976 became head of the Freiburg branch of the State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg . After retiring, she was in charge of the contemporary history paperback series at Herder-Verlag for 15 years, in which she herself published two standard works with letters to young women and younger fellow citizens.

Schmid-Burgk was involved in the European movement and in the women's movement . In 1947 she was one of the founding members of the Freiburg Women's Ring , from 1961 to 1970 she was chairman of the Baden regional association, from 1973 to 1976 deputy federal chairman and an observer at the Council of Europe for more than twenty years . She was also a member of the board of trustees of the Carl-Schurz-Haus in Freiburg. In the Baden fools guild she founded a female penalty council .

Schmid-Burgk was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation from 1973 to 1976 .

Publications

  • (Ed.): Courage to the public. Letters to young women. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 1978, ISBN 978-3-451-07685-5 .
  • (Ed.): A life for politics? Letters to younger citizens. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 1988, ISBN 978-3-451-08573-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contents: Editor Citizens in the State, LpB, design: Jeanette Reusch-Mlynárik, online publisher: The end of politics? - Citizens in the state 4/99. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  2. ^ Based on documents from the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .
personal data
SURNAME Schmid-Burgk, Sonja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1999
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau