1. Annemarie Renger was a German politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
24 Facts About Annemarie Renger
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Annemarie Renger 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.
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Annemarie Renger was nominated as the presidential candidate of the SPD in 1979, the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.
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Annemarie Renger's scholarship was withdrawn and she was forced to leave the institution in 1934 after it was found out that her parents' political attitude did not coincide with that of the ruling Nazi party.
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Annemarie Renger's family was rooted in the social democratic movement.
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In 1938, Annemarie Renger married Emil Ernst Renger, an advertising manager, who was killed in 1944 while on military duty in France.
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Annemarie Renger's husband died when she was 26 years old, having lost three of her brothers to war.
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In 1965, Annemarie Renger married Aleksandar Loncarevic, an economist from Yugoslavia.
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Annemarie Renger became a member of the SPD in 1945.
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Annemarie Renger wanted to meet the author of these lines.
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The famous photograph showing Annemarie Renger supporting the very ill and amputated Kurt Schumacher has become an icon of German post-war history.
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Since 1973, Annemarie Renger had been a member of the SPD "federal party committee" as well as the party's chairmanship.
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In 1979, Annemarie Renger was nominated by her party as a candidate for the Office of the Federal President, but lost by a margin of 431 to 528 electoral votes to Karl Carstens, the candidate of the CDU and CSU parties.
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In 1953, Annemarie Renger won her seat as Member of the Bundestag, and held it through 1990.
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Annemarie Renger was the first woman to enter the internal leadership of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
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Annemarie Renger was chairperson of the "Joint Committee".
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Annemarie Renger was elected vice president of the Bundestag and served in this function until her resignation from the Bundestag prior to the 1990 federal election.
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From 24 June 1977 until 1983, Annemarie Renger served as vice-chairperson of the Bundestag Foreign Relations Committee.
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Annemarie Renger was chairwoman of the Central Association of Organisations of Democratic Resistance Fighters and the Persecuted, president of the Kurt Schumacher Society, and honorary president of "Netzwerk Europaische Bewegung Deutschland".
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Annemarie Renger received various commendations for her special engagement to the German-Jewish-Israeli relationship.
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Annemarie Renger held an honorary doctorate of the Ben-Gurion-University of Negev.
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Annemarie Renger has been awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
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Annemarie Renger is commonly regarded as a "Grande Dame", the last of the grand ladies of the German Social Democratic movement.
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Annemarie Renger had a preference for sports cars and mink coats and her hair styling was always perfect.