Helga Kleiner

Helga Kleiner (; born 28 January 1935) is a German politician from Schleswig-Holstein. A member of the Christian Democratic Union, she is a prominent campaigner for senior citizens' interests and has held a number of leadership positions in the CDU's . Kleiner was a member of the Lübeck City Council from 1986 until 1992, and served two non-consecutive terms in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein between 1992 and 2005.

Biography Helga Kleiner was born on 28 January 1935 in the town of Mölln in Schleswig-Holstein. She is Protestant and has two children. After receiving her Mittlere Reife, she attended a business school in Flensburg – for one year. She worked as an office clerk until 1961.

In 1966, Kleiner joined the Christian Democratic Union, becoming district chair of the CDU's in Lübeck for ten years. Throughout her political career, Kleiner was a prominent advocate for senior citizen interests and held a number of high-ranking positions in the CDU's (SU).

Kleiner was elected to the Lübeck City Council in the 1986 election from the CDU party list, and was re-elected in 1990. While on the city council, she was part of the CDU executive committee and was chair of the housing committee. She was also a member of the social affairs, school, headmaster election, building, youth welfare, and petitions committees, as well as the spokesperson of the police advisory board. |group=note as an amendment to the state constitution.

For her public service, Kleiner was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, in 2007 by President Horst Köhler. She was also awarded the Konrad Adenauer Medal in November 2010, and the Schleswig-Holstein SU's Freedom Medal in January 2015.