Dagmar Schipanski

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Dagmar Schipanski
Minister-President
Preceded byGerd Schuchardt (Science, Research and Culture)
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Member of the Landtag of Thuringia
In office
8 July 2004 – 28 September 2009
ConstituencyCDU List
Personal details
Born
Dagmar Elisabeth Eichhorn

(1943-09-03)3 September 1943
Sättelstädt, Thuringia, Germany
Died7 September 2022(2022-09-07) (aged 79)
Political partyChristian Democratic Union
Profession
  • Physicist
  • academic
  • politician
Websitewww.dagmar-schipanski.de/en/

Dagmar Elisabeth Schipanski (

Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU), Schipanski held a variety of political and academic roles during her four-decade-long career and was awarded numerous honors, most notably the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1996.[1]

Early life

Schipanski was born on 3 September 1943 in

Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Ilmenau from 1992 to 1993 and as Rector of TU Ilmenau from 1995 to 1996.[2]

From 1996 to 1998, Schipanski served as chair of the

Leopoldina,[5][4] the national academy of Germany, in 1998, and served as a member of the Academia Europaea.[6]

Political career

Despite not being a member of either party, Schipanski was nominated by the CDU and the CSU to be their candidate in the 1999 Presidential election.[7] Schipanski lost the election to the former minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia, Johannes Rau, a member of the Social Democratic Party, receiving 572 votes to Rau's 690 on the second ballot.[7][8]

After her defeat, Schipanski remained active in politics and was appointed Minister of Science, Research, and the Arts in the cabinet of the

President of the Landtag.[7] Schipanski lost her position in the Landtag as a result of the 2009 state election, which produced a poor result for the governing CDU.[7]

Personal life

Schipanski, a

Protestant, was married and had three children.[1] One of her children, Tankred, has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009.[9]

Schipanski died on 7 September 2022 at the age of 79, after a short, serious illness.[10][11]

Memberships

Since 1998, Schipanski has been a member of the board of directors of the MDR. From 2001 to 2007, she served as a member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology.[2] From 2000 to 2009, Schipanski served as President of the German Cancer Aid. She has served as a member of the board of trustees of the German Foundation for Monument Protection since 2000, as chair of the board of the Lennart Bernadotte Foundation since 2003,[1] and, since 2005, as the chair of the board of trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology.[2]

Schipanski was an ambassador for the

New Social Market Economy initiative [de][citation needed] and has served as a member of the Presidium of the Oskar Patzelt Foundation.[12] She temporarily served as a member of the board of trustees of the Körber Foundation[13] before leaving her post due to pressure from anti-tobacco activists.[14] Since 2008, Schipanski has served as a member of the board of trustees of the International Martin Luther Foundation.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Oelze, Dorothea (26 October 2015). "Dagmar Schipanski". Geschichte der CDU. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "TU Ilmenau trauert um ihre ehemalige Rektorin Prof. Dagmar Schipanski". Nachrichten aus der Wissenschaft, idw (in German). 9 September 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Dagmar Schipanski". Munzinger Biographie (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Schipanski, Dagmar". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Mitglieder". Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina (in German). 25 September 2021. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  6. ^ "Mitgliederverzeichnis: Dagmar Schipanski". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  7. ^ a b c d e Schmollack, Simone (9 September 2022). "Dagmar Schipanski ist tot: Mit Mut zum Risiko". Die Tageszeitung: Taz (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  8. ^ "Bundespräsidentenwahlen". Wahlergebnisse (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  9. ^ "Tankred Schipanski". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  10. ^ "CDU-Politikerin Dagmar Schipanski ist tot". .de (in German). 9 September 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  11. ^ "CDU-Politikerin: Dagmar Schipanski stirbt mit 79 Jahren". www.zdf.de (in German). 9 September 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  12. ^ "Prof. Dagmar Schipanski wird Präsidiumsmitglied der Oskar-Patzelt-Stiftung". www.pt-magazin.de (in German). 27 April 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  13. ^ "Fr. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dagmar Schipanski". www.dagmar-schipanski.de.
  14. ^ "Schipanski raucht nicht". Die Tageszeitung: Taz. 29 July 2005. p. 22 – via www.taz.de.
  15. ^ "Internationale Martin Luther Stiftung". www.luther-stiftung.org. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.

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