Annemarie Renger | |
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President of the Bundestag West Germany | |
In office 13 December 1972 – 14 December 1976 | |
Preceded by | Kai-Uwe von Hassel |
Succeeded by | Karl Carstens |
Vice President of the Bundestag (on proposal of the SPD-group) | |
In office 1976–1990 | |
Preceded by | Hermann Schmidt-Vockenhausen |
Succeeded by | Helmut Becker |
Personal details | |
Born | Leipzig, Germany | 7 October 1919
Died | 3 March 2008 Remagen, Germany | (aged 88)
Political party | SPD |
only SPD predecessors and successors in her office of Vice President are mentioned | |
Annemarie Renger (née Wildung; 7 October 1919 – 3 March 2008) was a German politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
From 1972 until 1976 she served as the fifth president of the Bundestag. She was the first woman to hold this office and the first woman to hold one of the five highest federal offices of the Federal Republic of Germany.
She was nominated as the presidential candidate of the SPD in 1979, the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.