Renate Haußleiter-Malluche | |
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| Born | Renate Münzberg (1917-05-08)8 May 1917 |
| Died | November 27, 1994(1994-11-27) (aged 77) |
| Occupations | Physician Politician |
| Political party | DG 1949–1965 AUD 1965–1979 The Greens 1980–1989 |
| Spouse | August Haußleiter (1963) |
| Children | 5 |
Renate Haußleiter-Malluche (8 May 1917 – 27 November 1994),[1][2] began her professional career as a Germany|German pediatrician, becomingafter 1945 a politician inBavaria[1][3]
AsRenate Malluche she sat as a member of theBavarian state parliament (Landtag) between 1950 and 1954, representing theGerman Community (DG) until 1952,[1] and subsequently as an independent member.[1] A fellow DG member who also sat as an independent member in the Landtag after the DG faction disintegrated in 1952 was the more than averagely colourful politician-journalistAugust Haußleiter, whom she married approximately ten years later.[4]
Renate Münzberg was born in 1917Breslau,[3] then the administrative capital of theProvince of Silesia and a booming manufacturing and industrial city, where the population had quadrupled in the fifty years before her birth. As a young woman she was a "Gauführerin" (regional leader) in theLeague of German Girls, effectively the female youth wing of the GermanNazi Party whichtook power at the start of 1933. She studied medicine and in 1941qualified to work as a physician. Her first job was as an assistant doctor at the Breslau University Children's Clinic.[1] She moved on to work as an assistant doctor at a quarantine hospital inErnsdorf, in the south of Silesia.[1]
At Ernsdorf during thewar she was frequently on emergency shifts lasting 24 hours. Food and drink were strictly rationed, while military offices enjoyed much less restricted rations than those designated as civilians. Renate Malluche accordingly resolved to have herself transferred to the military, and she became one of two female doctors to be promoted to the status of an army officer.[5] After thewar ended, in May 1945, she was one of millions subjected toethnic cleansing in connection with the westward shift ofPolishfrontiersagreed between the leaders of thewinning powers: she ended up as a self-employed physician inGößweinstein, a small town in lower Bavaria located betweenNuremberg andBayreuth.[3]
As early as 1948 Malluche was elected to thePegnitz district council as a member ofNotgemeinschaft Deutschlands, a quasi-political right-wing grouping with link to theProtestant church. In 1949, she participated in the founding ofDeutsche Gemeinschaft (DG), a nationalist-neutralist political movement with far-right tendencies. She served as general secretary of DG from 1952, also serving as a member of its Bavarian leadership committee, until it was subsumed into the still far right, but more broadly basedAction Group of Independent Germans.
In 1950 she was elected to theBavarian state parliament (Landtag).[3] The DG took part in the 1950 on a joint platform with theAll-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights which was a significant element in the Bavarian political landscape during the later 1940s and 1950s. The 1954 regional elections delivered a disappointing result in Bavaria for theDeutsche Gemeinschaft (DG) and she was obliged to resign her seat at the end of November 1954.[1]
Renate Malluche married her fellow DG memberAugust Haußleiter in the summer of 1963,[4] and two years later, in May 1965, the two of them co-founded theAction Group of Independent Germans, a coming together of various fringe political groups on the right of the spectrum which individually had enjoyed little electoral success during the preceding twenty years.[6] She was again a member of the leadership committee. In 1979 the AUD in its turn was one of a number of minor political parties and groupings from across the left-right spectrum involved in forming theGerman Green party. Haußleiter-Malluche again held party office under the new arrangements, serving as the regional party treasurer in Bavaria.[7]
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