Gertrud Scholtz-Klink

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Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, born Treusch, later known under the alias Maria Stuckebrock (9 February 1902 – 24 March 1999), was a German official and member of the Nazi Party best known as the leader of the National Socialist Women's League (Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft or NSF), a position she was appointed to by Adolf Hitler in 1934. She headed numerous other Party and government organizations for women and was the highest ranking female official in Nazi Germany. In this top position for women, she was partly responsible for the persecution, exclusion, and disenfranchisement of Jewish women. She was permitted to travel abroad for propaganda purposes, and was known in Britain as "The Perfect Nazi Woman". Following the end of the Second World War, she underwent denazification proceedings and was adjudged a "major offender". An unrepentant Nazi, she lived another half-century and published a book in which she professed her continued belief in Nazi ideology.

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