Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (born July 26, 1951, in Minden, Germany) is a German politician (Free Democratic Party). She served as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany from 1992 to 1996.
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[edit] Education and work
After graduating from highschool in Minden in 1970, Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger started studying law in Göttingen und Bielefeld. In 1978 she passed the first state exam in Hamm, in 1978 the second state exam in Düsseldorf.
From 1979 to 1990 she worked at the German Patent Office in Munich. When she left the organization she was a managing director.
In addition to her mandate as a member of the german parliament (Bundestag), she has been working as lawyer in Munich since 1997.
[edit] Political career
In 1978 Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger became a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Since 1991 is a member of federal board of the FDP.
Since December 12, 1990 Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger is a member of the german Bundestag. On May 18, 1992 she was sworn in as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany. In 1995 there was a broad public discussion in Germany about the invulnerability of the private domain by means of acoustic observation (Großer Lauschangriff, literally "big listening attack"). In this argument she strongly objected to expanding the state's right to interfer in citizen's private domain. After the members of the FDP decided in a poll to support the conservative lead of the CDU in this matter, she resigned from her office on January 1, 1996. [1]
[edit] Personal life
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger is widowed, after her husband died in 2006. Her father, Dr. Horst Leutheusser, was also a lawyer and and as member of the CDU deputy mayor of Minden. Her uncle, Wolfgang Stammberger, was one of her predecessors as minister of justice (from 1961 to 1962).
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID3037054_TYP1_NAVSPM2~3036854_REF1,00.html Zehn Jahre Diskussion um den Großen Lauschangriff (German)
- This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
[edit] External links
- Official site (German)
- Biography on German Bundestag website (German)
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