1. Life

2. Politics

3. References

Life

Ursula Appuhn was born at Nordhausen, a small manufacturing town to the north of Erfurt. Passing the Abitur (school final exam) opened the way for a university-level education, and she went on to study Jurisprudence and Russian. She married Konrad Hermann Krone, son of the government minister (and prominent Adenauer backer), Heinrich Krone. Four children resulted.^[3]

Politics

Ursula Krone-Appuhn joined the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (party) in 1958 and switched to the similarly oriented Bavarian Christian Social Union (party) in 1962. In 1973 she took over from Centa Haas as regional chair of the party's "Women's Union", an office she held till 1981.^[2][4]

She was elected to the national parliament (Bundestag) in the 1976 General Election, remaining a member till 1987. As her party's representative on the parliamentary defence committee she took her position seriously, and herself undertook a week's military training at an army base in Munsterlager so as to gain firsthand experience of army life. The issue of women's role in the military was topical at the time, and she followed the conservative party line in being was opposed to the idea of drafting women into the West German armed forces: she nevertheless cited historical precedent to insist that there was no question of women being inherently incapable of operating heavy weapons.^[5]

References

• Meet Dave
• Meeteetse
• Meetei
• Meetei Mayek
• Meetei-Mayek script
• Meetei Mayek script
• Meet El Presidente
• Meet God
• Meeth Halt railway station
• Meetin
• MEETin
• Meeting Across the River
• Meeting at Hendaye
• Meeting at the tomb of Saint Adalbert
• Meeting de Paris
• Meeting engagement
• Meeting for Business
• Meeting for Worship
• Meeting for worship
• Meeting house
• Meeting-house
• Meeting House Hill School
• Meeting in Infinity
• Meeting Love
• Meeting Maker