Ursula Benedix

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Ursula Benedix presumably at a CDU event in 1975 in the former Haus Berlin in Sankt Andreasberg , now Haus Hemmingway
Ursula Benedix's signature on a Junge Union party card

Ursula Bendix-Engler (* 12. September 1922 in Nowa Ruda / Silesia ; † 17th May 2014 in Emden ) was a German politician of the CDU . She was initially a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for five years and entered the Bundestag for the first time in 1972 via the Lower Saxony state list , to which she was a member until 1983.

Life

Benedix was born the daughter of a grocery wholesaler and attended the Progymnasium in Neurode. After graduating, she completed a commercial apprenticeship and then attended the business school, where she passed the Abitur in 1943 . At the Leipzig Graduate School and at the University of Breslau , she studied business administration until it was withdrawn in October 1944 the Reich Labor Service. After the war she worked as a teaching assistant while at the University of Cologne Business Education studied. In 1950 she submitted her diploma thesis, which awarded her a diploma in business teaching. After a practical pedagogical year, she worked as a teacher at the district vocational school in Uelzen. Later she also worked as a senior teacher at various vocational and vocational schools in Uelzen. In 1979 she married the Emden shipping company director and East Frisian CDU district chairman Arthur Engler .

politics

Benedix joined the CDU in 1953 and was a member of the party's district and district executive committee. In 1964 she became councilor of the city of Uelzen . From 1970 to 1989 she was deputy state chairwoman of the CDU in Lower Saxony. In 1971 she was also elected chairman of the CDU women's association in Lower Saxony, which she also succeeded in doing a year later at the women's union at federal level. She held both offices long after she was a member of parliament until 1990.

On May 5, 1967, she moved into the Lower Saxony state parliament for the first time , to which she belonged in the sixth and seventh legislative periods from May 5, 1967 to January 24, 1973. She was spokeswoman for cultural policy there and also a member of the parliamentary group. On January 24, 1973, she resigned from the state parliament, as she had entered the German Bundestag via the state list of Lower Saxony in the Bundestag election the year before. She was a member of the German Bundestag for a total of three terms, from the seventh to the ninth ; it was elected via the state list of Lower Saxony. In all three terms she was a member of the Committee on Education and Science, in the ninth even as deputy chairman of that committee. During her entire term of office she was a member of the board of trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb).

In 1979 Benedix was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Your estate is managed as a deposit by the Archive for Christian Democratic Politics of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Sankt Augustin.

Publications

  • With Hans-Helmuth Knütter : Your child - tomorrow a fanatical class fighter. The influence of conflict pedagogy on parental home and school. Union Betriebs-Gesellschaft, Bonn 1977.
  • “And lead where I don't want to go”. My autobiography. Memoria-Verlag, Leer 2004, ISBN 3-938020-01-6 .

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 54.
  • 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. 33.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Advertisement in the Emder newspaper , May 20, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Benedix, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benedix-Engler, Ursula (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Neurode
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 2014
Place of death Emden