Helene Wessel

Helene Wessel receives the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from Eugen Gerstenmaier

Helene Wessel (6 July 1898 - 13 October 1969) was a German politician. From October 1949 to January 1952 she was chairwoman of the Centre Party and a founding member of the All-German People's Party, which eventually joined the SPD. She was elected to the Parlamentarischer Rat,[1] the West German constitutional convention.

  1. ^ "Der Parlamentarische Rat 1948 / 49" (in German). Retrieved 2012-01-07.