Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, First Woman in W. German Cabinet
Associated Press
FRANKFURT, West Germany —
Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, who in 1961 became West Germany’s first woman Cabinet member and first health minister, has died at the age of 85, it was reported Thursday.
Miss Schwarzhaupt, a Christian Democrat, who died Wednesday in Frankfurt, was appointed health minister by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and worked to tighten standards for medicine and food hygiene.
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