Eva Gräfin Finck von Finckenstein

Eva Countess Finck von Finckenstein born Schubring ( born December 3, 1903 in Berlin, † March 13, 1994 in Santiago de Chile) was a German politician (GB / BHE, 1956 CDU).

Life

After graduating from the State Augusta High School in Berlin studied Finck von Finckenstein, the Protestant faith was, Economics at the University of Berlin

From 1928 to 1933 she was foreign affairs correspondent for the liberal Vossische newspaper in Berlin. During the period of National Socialism, completely withdrew from public life. With the arrival of the Red Army Countess Finck von Finckenstein fled from East Prussia to Luebeck.

She was married to his third wife with Ottfried Ernst Gotthold Graf Finck von Finckenstein (1901-1987), with whom she had five children since 1934. From her first marriage she had left twins. The seven children, many grandchildren and great grandchildren now live spread across the world.

1959-1962 she was Permanent Representative of the Consul General in Valparaíso / Chile and 1962-1968 Cultural Attaché at the Embassy in Ottawa / Canada.

Policy

Countess Finck von Finckenstein one of the founders of the All-German block / Federation of expellees and disenfranchised (GB / BHE) in Schleswig -Holstein.

In 1950, she ran unsuccessfully for the state legislature in Schleswig -Holstein, but was in 1953 elected to the German Bundestag. This she chose to substitute delegate of Europe. Since 1950, she was personal assistant to the Schleswig-Holstein Finance Minister Waldemar force. Since 1952, she served on the national board of the GB / BHE, whose press office, she led.

After it was 1954 not re-elected to the party executive, it came at the federal party in Bielefeld to a head because of the already re-elected national chairman force whose press officer, closest advisor and good friend Countess Finck von Finckenstein was then his office did not accept. As a long-term consequence of this scandal led in 1955 to the exit leading GB / BHE members to force Finck von Finckenstein and Theodor Oberlander, who then joined in 1956, the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

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