Heide Simonis

Heide Simonis
Heide Simonis
	Simonis in 2009
Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein
	In office; 19 March 1993 – 27 April 2005
Preceded by	Björn Engholm
Succeeded by	Peter Harry Carstensen
Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Finance
	In office; 5 May 1988 – 19 March 1993
Preceded by	Roger Asmussen
Succeeded by	Claus Möller
Member of the Bundestag
	In office; 3 October 1976 – 8 June 1988
Personal details
Born	Heide Steinhardt; 4 July 1943; Bonn, Greater German Reich
Died	12 July 2023 (aged 80); Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Political party	Social Democratic
Education	University of Kiel; University of Erlangen–Nuremberg;

Heide Simonis (German: [ˈhaɪdə ziˈmoːnɪs]; 4 July 1943 – 12 July 2023) was a German author and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She was minister of finance in Schleswig-Holstein from 1988 until 1993, when she became minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein. She was the first woman to serve as head of a state government in German history and the only woman to do so in the 20th century, serving until 2005. As of September 2023, she is also the longest serving former female minister-president of a German state (11 years, 343 days).

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