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'''Hildegard Hamm-Brücher''' (born [[May 11]], [[1921]], in [[Essen, Germany]]) is a prominent liberal politician in [[Germany]]. She held federal state secretary positions from 1969 to 1972 and from 1977 to 1982. In 1993 she became the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party's]] candidate for the federal presidency elections to be held the following year.

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==Early life and education==

Hildegard Hamm-Brücher grew up with four siblings in a non-political bourgeois family. Her father was director of an electric firm; her mother maintained the household. Unexpectedly, her parents died within a year of each other when she was only ten and eleven years old. Her widowed grandmother, residing in [[Dresden]], brought up young Hamm-Brücher and several of her siblings. The grandmother came from an industrial family whose ancestors had converted from [[Judaism]] to [[Protestantism]]. In the early 1930s young Hamm-Brücher made the acquaintance of Pastor Martin Niemöller, who later during the [[Hitler]] era was imprisoned. Hamm-Brücher earned her [[Abitur]] in 1939 and studied chemistry in [[Munich]]. She graduated with a doctorate in chemistry in 1945 and began working as a science journalist for the "[[Neue Zeitung]]", an American-run newspaper for the occupied Germany.

==Political career==

Hamm-Brücher joined the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]] in 1948. She was elected to the [[Munich]] city council from 1948 to 1954, the [[Landtag of Bavaria]] from 1950 to 1966 and again from 1970 to 1976, and the [[Bundestag]] from 1976 to 1990. Hamm-Brücher focussed much of her work on education policy, and was appointed as [[secretary of state]] to the [[Hesse|Hessian]] and federal Ministry for Education in 1967 and 1969, respectively. She also served as a [[Minister of State]] in the [[Foreign Office (Germany)|German Foreign Office]] from 1977 to 1982, while her party was part of a coalition government with the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party]].

In 1982 the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]] left that coalition in order to form a new coalition with the [[Christian Democratic Union]]. Rather than holding new elections, the Free Democrats supported a [[constructive vote of no confidence]] against [[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]] [[Helmut Schmidt]] and in favor of Christian Democrat [[Helmut Kohl]]. Hamm-Brücher prominently opposed the new coalition itself, as well as the method of switching coalitions without an election. Subsequently she lost her position as [[Minister of State]], but continued to serve as a member of the parliament until 1990.

Her party nominated her as the Free Democrat's candidate in the German presidential election in 1994. However, the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]], then still in a coalition with the much larger [[Christian Democratic Union]] under [[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]] [[Helmut Kohl|Kohl]], ultimately chose to support the Christian Democrat's candidate [[Roman Herzog]]. Herzog went on to win the election with the combined majority of Christian and Free Democrats.

In 2002 she left the [[Free Democratic Party]] after a controversy with [[Jürgen Möllemann]] about his antisemitic election campaign.

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