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Brigitte Schröder
Brigitte Schröder (; born July 28, 1917, in Breslau; died October 27, 2000, in Bonn) was a German politician and volunteer in the church and social sector. She had been the wife of the German politician Gerhard Schröder since 1941. According to the Nuremberg Laws, she was considered a " mongrel of the first degree". The wedding was therefore only possible with an exemption permit from the Wehrmacht. Surprisingly, this was issued even though Gerhard Schröder had left the NSDAP in the same year. Brigitte Schröder was active in many honorary functions. She was a member of the city council of Düsseldorf for 13 years, was also a presbyter in the Matthäi parish there and founded the working group of Protestant parents and educators. After moving to Bonn in 1962, she founded the Women's and Family Service of the Foreign Office. In 1969, she founded the Evangelische Kranken- und Altenhilfe (eKH), which she led for 27 years until she handed over the reins to Gabriele Trull in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Ladies
Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue, which are mixed in different combinations to create all other colors. By far the largest contributor to green in nature is chlorophyll, the chemical by which plants photosynthesize and convert sunlight into chemical energy. Many creatures have adapted to their green environments by taking on a green hue themselves as camouflage. Several minerals have a green color, including the emerald, which is colored green by its chromium content. During post-classical and early modern Europe, green was the color commonly associated with wealth, merchants, bankers, and the gentry, while red was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
