1. Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger served as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany from 1992 to 1996 in the cabinet of Helmut Kohl and again in the second Merkel cabinet from 2009 to 2013.
21 Facts About Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
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In 1978 Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger became a member of the Free Democratic Party.
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From 12 December 1990 Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was a member of the German Bundestag.
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger had previously won an internal vote against Burkhard Hirsch and became the first woman to hold this office.
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From May 1997 Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was a member of the Steering Committee of the FDP.
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger served twice as Deputy Chairwoman of the FDP parliamentary group, from 2 February 2001 to 2 October 2002 and from 27 September 2005 until 28 October 2009.
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger expressed regret that those who ordered Georgiy Gongadze's murder had still not been brought to justice.
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Between 2009 and 2013, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger served as Federal Minister of Justice again, this time in the second Merkel cabinet.
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In 2011, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger became one of the first prominent Free Democratic politicians to suggest a change in the party's top leadership.
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger recommended that the incumbent Guido Westerwelle be replaced by Christian Lindner, then the party's general secretary.
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Ahead of the 2013 elections, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was elected to lead her party's campaign in the state of Bavaria.
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From December 2013, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger visited more than 20 member states.
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger continues to be a frequent commentator on human rights and data protection in German media.
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Since 2014 Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has been a Member of the executive board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger expressed her support for legislation that would punish officials who purchase illegally obtained data of German tax evaders in Switzerland.
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger long sought to make LGBT rights in Germany a key plank in the Free Democrats' platform.
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On 3 March 2015, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger attended the funeral of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, who had been shot and killed on 27 February 2015.
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger called chancellor Angela Merkel to show commitment to convince Russian president Vladimir Putin to release jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov.
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger did not attend a Council meeting in December 2012 when the ministers voted on the purchase of a few hundred "Boxer" armed transport vehicles.
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger noted that although all Eurozone member countries were involved in deciding on aid packages when a country applied for help, Germany always ended up as the target of anger.
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger is widowed, after her husband, Ernst Schnarrenberger, died of cancer in 2006.