21 Facts About Renate Lepsius

Renate Lepsius was born on Renate Meyer: 21 June 1927 - 28 June 2004 and was a German journalist, historian and politician.

Renate Lepsius resigned from the German parliament ahead of the 1987 election, by which time she had spent almost fifteen years as a high-profile member of it.

Renate Lepsius had a brother who had been born four years earlier.

Renate Lepsius came from a family of middle class intellectuals.

Renate Lepsius's mother had planned to join the teaching profession, but had been diverted into domesticity during the economically and politically troubled postwar years.

Unlike most members of the intellectual liberal elite, Renate Lepsius's father had read Mein Kampf, the chancellor's bizarre presentation of his political views, shortly after its publication back in 1925, and was evidently less surprised than many by what happened after 1933.

Renate Lepsius was quickly transferred to a less important job, and in many respects the family spent the twelve Nazi years as "internal emigrants", separating themselves from the social and political mainstream while avoiding the more suicidal aspects of "active resistance".

Renate Lepsius Meyer attended junior school locally in the Schlachtensee district on the south side of Berlin, and then moved to a senior school in the nearby Dahlem quarter.

Renate Lepsius had to struggle for a place not merely against her father's opposition but on account of the need to compete with surviving soldiers returning from the front and keen to catch up on their education.

Renate Lepsius was impressed by the full shops and by the friendliness of the people she met in England.

Renate Lepsius was intrigued by movement's refreshing internationalism and pacifism.

Renate Lepsius's father was a founder member of the new centre-right Christian Democratic Union, a new political party intended to combine the various strands of political moderation which it was believed had, through their fragmentation, opened up a path for populism in the buildup to 1933.

Rainer Renate Lepsius was by now based at Munich university, working on his habilitation.

Renate Lepsius therefore gave up her job in Bonn and moved to Munich to live with her new husband.

Almost as soon as the couple moved to Weinheim, Renate Lepsius was appointed a delegate for the local party branch to the national party conference.

Renate Lepsius found the level of work compatible with her domestic duties.

Renate Lepsius spoke out strongly in favour of abortion law reform, an issue that was rising rapidly up the political agenda across western Europe in the wider context of Second-wave feminism.

Renate Lepsius failed to win the seat in her own Rastatt constituency where the seat went to a candidate from the centre-right CDU candidate.

In 1981 Renate Lepsius was keen to succeed Marie Schlei as deputy chair of the SPD party group in the Bundestag.

Renate Lepsius enjoyed the support of the parliamentary group leader, Herbert Wehner.

Renate Lepsius nevertheless failed to gain support from colleagues in the parliament, which represented a significant and lasting setback to her political career.