First woman speaker
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First woman speaker

Associated Press · December 13, 1972

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Annemarie Renger, 53-year-old grandmother, was elected in Bonn Wednesday as the first woman speaker of West Germany's Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament. The new speaker, or president, shown taking her seat on the presidential chair, is a member of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Social Democratic Party.

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