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First Lady of North Rhine-Westphalia
Susanne Laschet
Personal details
BornSusanne Malangré
(1962-05-18) 18 May 1962 (age 62)
Aachen, West Germany
Spouse Armin Laschet ​(m. 1985)​

Susanne Laschet (née Malangré; born 18 May 1962) is a German bookseller, wife of former Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia and Chancellor of Germany candidate Armin Laschet.

Background

Malangré was born to a prominent Aachen family and is the daughter of the prominent business executive Heinrich Malangré and the niece of the city's former lord mayor Kurt Malangré. Her family is of French-speaking Walloon origin and moved from Haine-Saint-Pierre in Belgium to Stolberg in the second half of the 19th century to establish a glass production business.

She trained as a bookseller and is a well-known bookseller in Aachen.

She met Armin Laschet as a child in a Catholic children's choir led by her father; they married in 1985 and have three children. Her husband's grandfather was also from Wallonia.

Public activities

Susanne Laschet became the First Lady of Germany's largest state North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017. As First Lady she was active in philanthropic work. She is the patron of the Müttergenesungswerk, a charitable organisation founded by the First Lady of Germany Elly Heuss-Knapp. She is also the patron of Aktion Lichtblicke.

In 2020 her husband became a candidate to the chairmanship of the CDU and to succeed Angela Merkel as Chancellor of Germany, and was reportedly the candidate favoured by Merkel. However, he still lost.

References

  1. „Ich weiß, wie schrecklich es ist“, Die Welt
  2. "Susanne Laschet". www.nwzonline.de.
  3. Hans Seeling: Wallonische Industriepioniere in Deutschland, Wahle 1983, p. 178
  4. Zeitung, Aachener (18 October 2018). "Lese-Tipps für Herbst und Winter: Susanne Laschet stellt Bücher im "Weissen Pferdchen" vor". Aachener Zeitung.
  5. "Armin Laschet: Immer unterwegs und meistens gut gelaunt". www.aachener-nachrichten.de. 25 October 2021.
  6. ""Hat mich verprügelt": Ehefrau Susanne spricht über erste Begegnung mit Armin Laschet". Express.de. 2 May 2020.
  7. Online, FOCUS. "NRW-Ministerpräsident Laschet spricht über ungewöhnliches Kennenlernen mit Ehefrau". FOCUS Online.
  8. "Susanne Laschet neue Schirmherrin". www.caritas-nrw.de. 15 April 2020.
  9. "Susanne Laschet macht sich für erschöpfte Eltern stark". KAG Müttergenesung Köln. 20 February 2019.
  10. Unsere Schirmherrin Susanne Laschet
  11. "Merkel bei Laschet - Rückendeckung in der K-Frage gegen Ambitionen aus Bayern". Deutschlandfunk.
  12. Frigelj, Kristian (18 August 2020). "Kanzlerin in NRW: Ist Laschet "kanzlerfähig"? Merkels Antwort klingt wie eine Empfehlung". Die Welt – via www.welt.de.
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