Ursula Countess von Brockdorff

Ursula Marlies Paula Ehrengard Countess von Brockdorff , b. Countess von Behr-Negendanck (born March 1, 1936 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , † April 12, 1989 in Upper Bavaria ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1983 to 1988 she was Minister of Social Affairs for Schleswig-Holstein .

Life

Brockdorff was born the third of four daughters of Hans Jasper Karl Heino Ulrich Wilhelm Georg Alexander Graf von Behr -Negendanck (1901-1944) and Gertrud Luise Eleonore Emilie von Rumohr (1908-1994) and grew up on a manor in Neverin near Neubrandenburg . In 1945 she fled with her mother to Schleswig-Holstein, where she married Christian Friedrich Graf von Brockdorff . They moved to Gut Kletkamp , the Brockdorff estate. She was active in social work, so she headed the local association of the German Red Cross in her home community Kletkamp since 1958 , became vice-president of the DRK in 1973 and was also a member of the presidential council in Bonn.

politics

Brockdorff joined the CDU in 1978. Shortly thereafter, she was chairwoman of the CDU district women’s association, but left the party in 1982 after arguments and returned a few months later on January 1, 1983. Even surprisingly for herself, in April 1983 she was convened as Minister of Social Affairs in Uwe Barschel's cabinet and succeeded Walter Braun .

When, after the state elections in 1987, Prime Minister Barschel announced his resignation due to the stalemate in the state parliament and the developments in connection with the Barschel affair , Federal Minister Henning Schwarz assumed the office of prime minister, Brockdorff and the rest of the cabinet remained in office. In addition to the developments in the perch affair, which led to new elections on May 8, 1988, a political scandal surrounding Minister Brockdorff became known. In March 1988 she signed a contract according to which Brockdorff was to take over the management of the state-owned cultural center in Salzau on June 15, 1988 with an annual salary of 72,000 DM. After this incident, which the SPD described as an “unbelievable case of nepotism”, the CDU also distanced itself from it. The acting Prime Minister Henning Schwarz dismissed Brockdorff from the cabinet. On the advice of the party leadership, she was also advised to leave the CDU, which she also carried out.

Brockdorff died in 1989 after a long illness in a clinic in Upper Bavaria.

source

• Ursula Countess von Brockdorff in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)