Serving Two Republics: Several women parliamentarians of the
Weimar Republic placed themselves at the disposal of the body
politic after the time of the Nazis and the war.
The Christian Democrat CHRISTINE TEUSCH, earlier
part of the center of the Reichstag, became the minister of culture
in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Social Democrat LOUISE SCHROEDER
sat in the Reichstag as well as the Bundestag. She oversaw
her hardest task during the Berlin Blockade as the acting mayor
of the city. At her side stood the Liberal
MARIE-ELISABETH LÜDERS
who oversaw the care of refugees. Earlier she had been a representative
in the Reichstag, and later she was the acting president of the
Bundestag.
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