Gertraud Winkelvoß

Gertraud Winkelvoss (; 18 February 1917 – 5 March 1982) was a German politician who served in the Landtag of Lower Saxony from 1967 until 1970, representing the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party. She was a leader in both the party and in the broader neo-Nazi movement in West Germany.

Biography Gertraud Winkelvoss was born on 18 February 1917 in the town of Prettin. After receiving her Abitur from a school in Militsch in 1936, she moved to Marburg and began training in physiotherapy. On 1 September 1938, at the age of 21, Winkelvoss joined the Nazi Party. After initially working at hospitals in Magdeburg, she became a camp leader in the Reich Labour Service during World War II. After the war, she fled to the Northeim district in Lower Saxony, where she and her husband opened a dairy wholesale store until 1954, when they moved to the city of Oldenburg. In the 1961 West German federal election, Winkelvoss ran for the Bundestag as a member of the DRP, standing as a state list candidate in Lower Saxony, though she was defeated. After unsuccessfully running for the Bundestag again in the 1965 election, Winkelvoss was also the party's chairman in both Lüneburg city and Lüneburg district. The party's success was due to its ability to siphon votes from the Free Democratic Party, who lost all of their seats in the Landtag. At the time of her election, Winkelvoss was one of only two elected female NPD legislators in West Germany. In an interview given to the Alicia Patterson Foundation, Winkelvoss explained that the NPD strategy was to gain seats in the state Landtages in order to influence the Bundesrat, though she stated she was also interested in state affairs, primarily "family welfare". During the interview, she was also critical of Adolf Hitler for outlawing all political opposition to the Nazi Party. was a judge at the , and they had four children together.