Rita Süssmuth: Former President of the Bundestag has died | EUROtoday
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Süssmuth was born in Wuppertal in 1937. At the age of 34 she turned a professor of training. She was a professor on the University of Dortmund within the Seventies; At the identical time, she served on varied committees of the Family Ministry.
Second President of the Bundestag
From 1988 to 1998 she was the second lady to be President of the Bundestag after Annemarie Renger (SPD). In this function, she was concerned within the wrapping of the Reichstag constructing by the artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the summertime of 1995.
During her political profession, the CDU politician campaigned, amongst different issues, for the reform of abortion paragraph 218 and was dedicated to serving to folks with AIDS. After exhausting struggles, she managed to implement the precept of “prevention instead of exclusion”.
The politician additionally set priorities in her celebration’s very controversial migration coverage: again within the mid-Nineties, she was the primary distinguished CDU politician to name for a dedication to Germany as an immigration nation. From 2000 to 2001 she headed the immigration fee arrange by the red-green federal authorities. From 2002 to 2004 she chaired the Expert Council for Immigration and Integration shaped by Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily (SPD). From 2003 to 2005 she labored on the Global Commission on International Migration, which was arrange by the UN.
Even after her political profession, Süssmuth continued to carry quite a few public places of work. In 2003 she was appointed to the newly based Advisory Commission in reference to the return of cultural property confiscated on account of Nazi persecution, notably from Jewish property (“Limbach Commission”). Since 2005 she has been president of the German Poland Institute, of which she was most lately honorary president. Rita Süssmuth was additionally the president of the German Adult Education Association for over 27 years and has been honorary president of the affiliation since 2015.
Süssmuth was additionally energetic as a Catholic. She headed the “Marriage and Family” fee on the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) and served as vp of the Catholic Family Association from 1980 to 1985.
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