Annemarie Renger was born in Leipzig on October 7, 1919.

Due to her social democratic views, she was forced to leave the Augusta-Lyzeum in Berlin during the National Socialist era and completed an apprenticeship as a publishing saleswoman. She worked in this profession until 1945.

After the Second World War, she initially took on the position of secretary to SPD chairman Kurt Schumacher. From 1946, she headed the office of the SPD party executive committee. In 1953, she was elected to the German Bundestag for the first time and remained a member until 1990.

Between 1969 and 1972, she was Parliamentary Secretary of the SPD parliamentary group and then became the first female President of the German Bundestag for four years. During this time, she visited the Hessian capital on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Hessen-Nassauische Versicherungsanstalt.

Together with the Austrian Federal Chancellor Dr. Bruno Kreisky, she was received by Lord Mayor Schmitt in the ballroom of the town hall on October 23, 1974. He praised her for her commitment to social democracy and her pioneering role as a woman in politics. Renger thanked him for his kind words and then signed the city's Golden Book with her Austrian guest.

After leaving the Bundestag in 1990, Renger became involved in various German and European charitable organizations. She died on March 3, 2008 in Remagen-Oberwinter.