Helga Zepp-LaRouche
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Helga Zepp-LaRouche in 2005
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Helga Zepp August 25, 1948 Trier, Germany |
| Occupation | activist, public speaker |
| Political party | BüSo, Schiller Institute |
| Spouse(s) | Lyndon LaRouche (1977–present) |
Helga Zepp-LaRouche (born August 25, 1948, Trier) is a German political activist, wife of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche, and founder of the LaRouche movement's Schiller Institute and the German Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität party (BüSo) (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity).
She has run for political office several times in Germany, representing small parties founded by the LaRouche movement, but has never been elected. She is the editor of Das Hitler-Buch (1984), published by the Schiller Institute, a collection of historical investigations into the origins of Nazism.
Lyndon LaRouche writes in The Power of Reason (first edition) that his wife was an orphan. According to the Schiller Institute and Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität websites, she left high school in 1968 to work as an unpaid journalist in Hamburg and Hannover, later becoming a freelance. In 1971, the websites continue, she traveled through China as one of the first European journalists there, just after the highpoint of the Cultural Revolution. When she returned to Germany, she studied political science, history and philosophy at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin and at Frankfurt am Main.
On December 29, 1977, Helga Zepp and Lyndon LaRouche were married in Wiesbaden. Since then, according to her official biography at the Schiller Institute website, she has traveled with her husband to promote his proposals for monetary reform and large-scale infrastructural development, and has met with former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi and former Mexican president José López Portillo. She returned to Mexico in 1998, and participated as mistress of ceremonies at a conference held at the Academy of Economics of the Mexican Society of Geography, during which Lopez Portillo greeted her once again, according to the LaRouche movement's Executive Intelligence Review. Earlier that year, Lopez Portillo, along with former Ugandan President Godfrey Binaisa, former Algerian Prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi and other politicians, had added his signature to a call issued by Zepp-LaRouche for a "new just world economic order."
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