Lieselotte Berger

Lieselotte Berger
Lieselotte Berger (centre, standing) at a reception
Member of the Bundestag
In office 26 August 1971 – 26 September 1989
Personal details
Born	(1920-11-13)13 November 1920 Berlin
Died	26 September 1989(1989-09-26) (aged 68) Berlin, Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	CDU

Lieselotte Berger (November 13, 1920 – September 26, 1989) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Life

Since 1958 she was a member of the CDU. From 1965 she was a member of the CDU state executive committee in Berlin and from 1973 deputy CDU state chairwoman in Berlin.

On 26 August 1971, when she succeeded Karl-Heinz Schmitz, she joined the German Bundestag as a Berlin member. She was then a member of the German Bundestag until her death. Here she was chairman of the Petitions Committee from 1972 to 1987.

After the 1987 federal elections, she became Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Chancellor and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Government in Berlin on 12 March 1987. She held this office until her death.

Literature

Herbst, Ludolf; Jahn, Bruno (2002). Vierhaus, Rudolf (ed.). Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002 [Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002] (in German). München: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. p. 1715. ISBN 978-3-11-184511-1.