قراءة لمدة 1 دقيقة Heide Simonis

Heide Simonis (; 4 July 1943 – 12 July 2023) was a German author and politician.
She was in the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

She was minister of finance in Schleswig-Holstein from 1988, until she became minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein.

She was the first woman to serve as head of a state government in German history, and the only woman to do so in the 20th century.
She served until 2005.
She died on 12 July 2023, eight days after her 80th birthday.