Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
Reichsfrauenführerin Gertrud Scholtz-Klink | |
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Scholtz-Klink, 1934 | |
| Reichsführerin National Socialist Women's League | |
| In office 24 February 1934 – 8 May 1945 | |
| Appointed by | Adolf Hitler |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Reichsführerin Deutsches Frauenwerk | |
| In office 24 February 1934 – 8 May 1945 | |
| Appointed by | Adolf Hitler |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Leader German Women's Labor Service | |
| In office 1 January 1934 – 1 April 1936 | |
| Appointed by | Konstantin Hierl |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Additional positions | |
| 1934–1945 | Leader, Women's League German Red Cross |
| 1934–1945 | Leader, Women's Bureau German Labor Front |
| 1937–1945 | Academy for German Law |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gertrud Emma Treusch 9 February 1902 |
| Died | 24 March 1999 (aged 97) |
| Party | Nazi Party (NSDAP) |
| Spouse(s) | Eugen Klink (m. 1921–1930) Günther Scholtz (m. 1932–1937) August Heissmeyer (m. 1940–1979) |
| Children | 6, including Ernst Klink 6 step-children |
| Awards | Golden Party Badge Cross of Honour of the German Mother |
Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, born Treusch, later known under the alias Maria Stuckebrock (9 February 1902 – 24 March 1999), was a German official and member of the Nazi Party best known as the leader of the National Socialist Women's League (Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft or NSF), a position she was appointed to by Adolf Hitler in 1934. She headed numerous other Party and government organizations for women and was the highest ranking female official in Nazi Germany. She was known in Britain as "the perfect Nazi Woman"”. Following the end of the Second World War, she underwent denazification proceedings and was adjudged a "major offender". An unrepentant Nazi, she lived another half-century and published a book in which she professed her continued belief in Nazi ideology.