Heide Simonis ( ; born July 4, 1943 in Bonn as Heide Steinhardt) is a German politician. She is a member of the SPD.
She was Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein from 1993 to 2005, the first woman to hold this position in any German state in Germany's history.
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