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Female Nazi leader (–)

Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, bornTreusch, later known as Maria Stuckebrock (9 February – 24 March ), was a Nazi Party member and leader of the National Socialist Women's League (NS-Frauenschaft) in Nazi Germany.

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Nazi activities

Main article: National Socialist Women's League

She married a factory worker at the age of eighteen and had six children before he died. Scholtz-Klink joined the Nazi Party and by became leader of the women's section in Baden.^[1] In , Scholtz-Klink married Günther Scholtz, a country doctor (divorced in ).

When Adolf Hitler came to power in , he appointed Scholtz-Klink as Reich's Women's Führerin and head of the Nazi Women's League. She was a good orator, and her main task was to promote male superiority, the joys of home labour and the importance of child-bearing.^[1] In one speech, she argued that "the mission of woman is to minister in the home and in her profession to th Gertrud Scholtz-Klink – Frauen im Krieg KOXE