Dagmar Schipanski

Dagmar Schipanski
Schipanski at the CDU-Bundesparteitag 2008 in Stuttgart
President of the Landtag of Thuringia
In office 8 July 2004 – 28 September 2009
Minister-President	Dieter Althaus
Preceded by	Christine Lieberknecht
Succeeded by	Birgit Diezel [de]
Minister of Science, Research and the Arts of Thuringia
In office 1 October 1999 – 8 July 2004
Minister-President	Bernhard Vogel Dieter Althaus
Preceded by	Gerd Schuchardt (Science, Research and Culture)
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Member of the Landtag of Thuringia
In office 8 July 2004 – 28 September 2009
Constituency	CDU List
Personal details
Born	Dagmar Elisabeth Eichhorn (1943-09-03)3 September 1943 Sättelstädt, Thuringia, Germany
Died	7 September 2022(2022-09-07) (aged 79)
Political party	Christian Democratic Union
Profession	Physicist academic politician
Website	www.dagmar-schipanski.de/en/

Dagmar Elisabeth Schipanski (née Eichhorn; 3 September 1943 – 7 September 2022) was a German physicist, academic, and politician from Thuringia. Although best known for her 1999 nomination as President of Germany by the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU), Schipanski held a variety of political and academic roles during her four-decade-long career and was awarded numerous honors, most notably the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1996.^[1]