Gertrud Dempwolf
German politician
Gertrud Dempwolf is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
Life
On 22 March 1984, she moved to the Bundestag to replace Horst Schröder, who had resigned, and was a member of the German Bundestag until 1998. On 17 November 1994 she was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the Federal Government headed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl. She left office on 26 October 1998 after the 1998 federal elections.
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