Political Career
In 1981, she joined the CDU, one of the bloc parties of the GDR, and in 1987 was elected to the district board in East Berlin.
In the general election of March 1990, the only free elections of East Germany, she was elected into the People's Chamber, which on 5 April elected her its President. As parliament also abolished the State Council, she also exercised the duties of head of state until the GDR joined the Federal Republic of Germany.
After German reunification on 3 October 1990, she became a member of the Bundestag and, as other leading members of the last GDR government, was also appointed to the Federal Minister for Special Affairs in Chancellor Helmut Kohl's cabinet. After the 1990 election, she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Federal Minister for Health on 18 January 1991. Following her party's defeat in the 1998 election, she departed from the government on 26 October 1998 but remained in the Bundestag until 2002.
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