What is Gisela Mayer?
'''Gisela Mayer''' (30 October 1931 in [[Stuttgart]] - 1 July 2020 in [[Ellwangen]] ) was a local politician in Ellwangen, and founder of the first women's list in Germany. In 1996 she received the Barbara Künkelin Prize, from the city of [[Schorndorf, Bavaria|Schorndor]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gisela Mayer - Preisträgerin 1996|url=https://www.kuenkelinpreis.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/barbara-kuenkelin-preis-laudatio-1996-Mayer.pdf|website=kuenkelinpreis.de}}</ref> In 2003 she received the [[Bundesverdienstkreuz|Federal Cross of Merit]] . == Life == Gisela Mayer graduated from the Hölderlin-Gymnasium in Stuttgart in 1949 and worked as a foreign language secretary, at the ''Association of German Mechanical and Plant Engineering'' in Stuttgart. In 1955, she married the lawyer Curt Mayer, where she was office manager. Her daughter Ingrid Alice Mayer is a lawyer, politician and author.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Die größte Politikerin mit einem vorbildlich sozialen Gewissen Gisela Mayer wird achtzig|url=http://www.aaleninfo.de/okt11/30/maier|website=aaleninfo.de}}</ref> In 1979, Gisela Mayer founded the Ellwanger women's list, the first all-women's list in the [[Germany]] . In the local elections in 1980, she received almost 10% of the vote. She sat on the local council for 24 years. From 1989 to 2004 she was a district councilor in the Ostalb district .<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-10-28|title=Gisela Mayer wird 85 Jahre alt|url=https://www.schwaebische.de/regional/ostalb/ellwangen/gisela-mayer-wird-85-jahre-alt-536429|access-date=2023-11-02|website=www.schwaebische.de|language=de}}</ref> Gisela Mayer died on July 1, 2020 in the St. Anna Virngrund Clinic at the age of 88 as a result of intestinal surgery.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rimkus|first=Alexandra|date=2020-07-02|title=Gisela Mayer stirbt im Alter von 88 Jahren|url=https://www.schwaebische.de/regional/ostalb/ellwangen/gisela-mayer-stirbt-im-alter-von-88-jahren-199790?lid=true|access-date=2023-11-02|website=www.schwaebische.de|language=de}}</ref> == References == <refe