Annemarie Renger
| Annemarie Renger | |
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Annemarie Renger in 1973
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| President of the Bundestag | |
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In office 1972–1976 |
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| Preceded by | Kai-Uwe von Hassel |
| Succeeded by | Karl Carstens |
| Vicepresident of the German Bundestag | |
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In office 1976–1990 |
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| Preceded by | Hermann Schmidt-Vockenhausen, Georg Leber, Heinz Westphal |
| Succeeded by | Georg Leber, Heinz Westphal |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
7 October 1919 Leipzig, Germany |
| Died | 3 March 2008 (aged 88) Remagen, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | SPD |
| only SPD predecessors and successors in her office of Vice President are mentioned | |
Annemarie Renger (née Wildung), (7 October 1919 in Leipzig – 3 March 2008 in Remagen-Oberwinter), was a German politician for the “Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands” (Social Democratic Party of Germany - SPD).
In 1972 she became the 5th President of the Bundestag. She was the first woman to serve as president of a German parliament and held this position until 1976 when she became Vice President of the Bundestag (German parliament).
She was nominated as the presidential candidate of the SPD in 1979, the first woman to be nominated for President by a major party.
Annemarie Renger attended the “Augusta-Lyzeum” in Berlin, an all female high school. Her scholarship was withdrawn and she was forced to leave the institution in 1934 after it was found out that her parents' political attitude did not coincide with that of the ruling Nazi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. Renger instead entered vocational training to become, and worked as, a bookseller and publisher in Berlin.
Later she worked as a private secretary for Kurt Schumacher, the leader of the Social Democratic Party. In 1946 she became office manager for the SPD party executive committee in Hannover and later in Bonn.
Annemarie Renger's family was rooted in the social democratic movement. Her grand father was an active party member. Annemarie was one of seven children to Fritz Wildung (1872–1954; a carpenter, SPD politician and sports executive) and his wife Martha (1881–?) who joined the SPD in 1908—the first year women in Germany were eligible to join political parties. In 1924, her father became executive director of the “Zentralkommission für Arbeitersport” (“Central Committee for Workers' Sports”) in Berlin. The Nazis prohibited him from working and persecuted him.
In 1938, Annemarie Renger married Emil Ernst Renger, an advertising manager, who was killed in 1944 while on military duty in France. Their son, Rolf Renger (1938–1998), later a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), whom she survived, did not get to know his father. Annemarie Renger's husband died when she was 26 years old, also having lost three of her brothers to war.
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