Lieselotte Berger

Lieselotte Berger was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union 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.