Michaela Geiger

Michaela Geiger   ( politician)
Born	Michaela Rall 29 September 1943  Oberammergau,  Bavaria,  Germany
Died	30 December 1998 (Age 55)  Munich,  Bavaria,  Germany
Cause of death	cancer
Nationality	German
Religion	protestant
Parents	Carl Rall
Party	Christian Social Union in Bavaria
German politician who helped introduce discussion on Domestic Developments In Eastern Europe:Policy Implications For The West for the 1989 Bilderberg.  Parliamentary State Secretary In office 24 January 1991 - 1993 Appointed by Jürgen Warnke Location Germany/Minister/Economic Cooperation  Member of the Bundestag  In office 1980 - 1998 Preceded by Joachim Angermeyer, Richard Jaeger, Kurt Georg Kiesinger Attended Bilderberg/1990

Michaela Geiger was a German politician who as chairwoman of the Foreign Policy working group of the CDU/CSU helped introduce the discussion on Domestic Developments In Eastern Europe:Policy Implications For The West for the 1989 Bilderberg.

Education

She was the daughter of Carl Rall, who received the Knight's Cross in 1943. Geiger attended the St. Irmengard School Lyceum from 1954 to 1960. After graduating from high school in 1963 at the Werdenfels Gymnasium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Michaela Geiger completed a specialist training as a television image technician in Nuremberg and worked for Bavarian Television from 1964 to 1967 in Munich. After that, she worked as a housewife and as an employee in her husband's company until 1980.

Michaela Geiger was divorced and had a son.

Political career

She has been a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria since 1971. Here she was a member of the CSU district board Garmisch-Partenkirchen from 1975, was deputy chairman of the CSU district association Upper Bavaria from 1977 and a member of the CSU state board since 1987.

From 1980 until her death, she was a member of the German Bundestag, to which she was sent via the state list, since Franz Josef Strauss had refused to go to Bonn after the lost Bundestag election in 1980. She sat in the Bundestag from 1987 to 1991 as chairwoman of the Foreign Policy working group of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.

After the 1990 federal elections, she was appointed on 24 January 1991 as Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation in the Federal Government led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl. From January 22, 1993 to January 16, 1997, she then held the same position with the Federal Minister of Defense.

Geiger received a donation of "well under 20,000 marks" in 1994, when she was at the Ministry of Defense, from the arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber. The money was at least partially used to finance Geiger's Bundestag election campaign. The controversial arms dealer had donated a total of 143,000 marks to the CSU from the end of the 1980s to 1995.

On 16 January 1997, she was elected Vice-President of the German Bundestag. After the 1998 federal election, she resigned from this office again on 26 October 1998.

From November 1998 until her death from cancer on December 30, 1998, she was deputy chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1989	12 May 1989	14 May 1989	Spain La Toja Island Galicia	37th Bilderberg meeting, 110 guests

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