Barbara Saß-Viehweger

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Barbara Saß-Viehweger (née Weyand; born 4 August 1943, Worbis, Province of Saxony) is a civil law notary, lawyer and politician. She is member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

Leinefelde-Worbis is a town in the district of Eichsfeld, in northwestern Thuringia, Germany. The town was formed on March 16, 2004, from the former independent towns Leinefelde and Worbis along with the municipalities of Breitenbach and Wintzingerode. In July 2018 the former municipality of Hundeshagen, and in January 2019 Kallmerode was merged into Leinefelde-Worbis. The population before the amalgamation was 14,387 for Leinefelde, 5,541 for Worbis, 1,021 for Breitenbach and 614 for Wintzingerode. The 10 parts of Leinefelde-Worbis are Leinefelde, Worbis, Breitenbach, Kirchohmfeld, Birkungen, Beuren, Hundeshagen, Kaltohmfeld, Wintzingrode, Kallmerode and Breitenholz.

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Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are agents of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record instruments for private parties and are vested as public officers with the authentication power of the State. As opposed to most notaries public, their common-law counterparts, civil-law notaries are highly trained, licensed practitioners providing a range of regulated services, and whereas they hold a public office, they nonetheless operate usually—but not always—in private practice and are paid on a fee-for-service basis. They often receive the same education as attorneys at civil law but without qualifications in advocacy, procedural law, or the law of evidence, somewhat comparable to solicitor training in certain common-law countries.

Life

Saß-Viehweger grew up in Berlin where she attended school.^[1] She studied jurisprudence in Berlin, Köln and Freiburg and finished in 1970 with her Second Staatsexamen; afterwards she worked as lawyer. From 1980 to 2013 she additionally acted as civil law notary.

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3,748,148 (2018) inhabitants make it the second most populous city proper of the European Union after London. The city is one of Germany's 16 federal states. It is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and contiguous with its capital, Potsdam. The two cities are at the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg capital region, which is, with about six million inhabitants and an area of more than 30,000 km², Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions.

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Based in Lankwitz, she is member of the Roman Catholic parish Mater Dolorosa (Berlin-Lankwitz), where she acts as member of the management board^[2] and as member of the council of the independent foundation Stiftung Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz.^[3]

Lankwitz (help·info) is a German locality (Ortsteil) within the borough (Bezirk) of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Steglitz.

Mater Dolorosa is a Roman Catholic parish and church in Berlin-Lankwitz in Germany. Mater Dolorosa belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin. It is named after Our Lady of Sorrows.

The Stiftung Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz is an independent nonprofit foundation under the civil law of Germany and Berlin based in Lankwitz in the borough Steglitz-Zehlendorf of Berlin. The foundation was founded by the parish Mater Dolorosa (Berlin-Lankwitz) in 2006, and it was the first independent foundation of a parish within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin. The foundation took into consideration the strong cut of financial grants by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin which came along with the decline of church taxes and the consequential financial crisis of the archdiocese in 2003.

Politics

She was member of the communal parliament in Steglitz from 1971 to 1975, and member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin from 1975 (when her name was Barbara Saß) to 1995, and therefore, she was member of the Landtag for six successive Legislation periods, always with a direct mandate of her electoral district. She was mainly engaged in legal and domestic policy, where she was speaker of the parliamentary group of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) for many years. Furthermore, she acted in several investigation committees and she chaired the Enquete-Kommission (inquiry commission) for the administration reform in Berlin.

Steglitz (help·info) is a locality of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough in the south-west of Berlin, the capital of Germany. The locality also includes the neighbourhood of Südende. Steglitz is a Slavic name for the European goldfinch, similar to the German 'Stieglitz'.

The Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin is the state parliament (Landtag) of Berlin, Germany according to the city-state's constitution. In 1993 the parliament moved from Rathaus Schöneberg to its present house on Niederkirchnerstraße in Mitte, which until 1934 was the seat of the Prussian Landtag. The current president of the parliament is Ralf Wieland (SPD).

A Landtag is a representative assembly (parliament) in German-speaking countries with legislative authority and competence over a federated state (Land). Landtage assemblies are the legislative bodies for the individual states of Germany and states of Austria, and have authority to legislate in non-federal matters for the regional area.

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References

↑ Barbara Saß-Viehweger StayFriends.de; retrieved 25 October 2015. (in German)
↑ Kirchenvorstand Mater Dolorosa (Berlin-Lankwitz). Retrieved 25 October 2015
↑ Mitglieder des Stiftungsrats Stiftung Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz; retrieved 25 October 2015. (in German)

External links

Barbara Saß-Viehweger profile, mater-dolorosa-lankwitz.de; accessed 26 October 2015. (in German)

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[1] Barbara Saß-Viehweger StayFriends.de; retrieved 25 October 2015. (in German)

[2] Kirchenvorstand Mater Dolorosa (Berlin-Lankwitz). Retrieved 25 October 2015

[3] Mitglieder des Stiftungsrats Stiftung Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz; retrieved 25 October 2015. (in German)