Born: June 18, 1926 in Berlin
died: June 4, 1989 in Wiesbaden

Ingeborg Kleinert came from a modest background in Berlin. She was only able to attend elementary school and worked as a typist after school. She worked her way through secondary school to gain her university entrance qualification. After graduating from high school, she studied law in Freiburg. She passed her first state examination in law in 1953. After her legal clerkship and the second state examination, which she passed in 1957, she initially worked as a lawyer.

She moved to Wiesbaden in 1960. She began working as a consultant and then as head of the Wiesbaden-based Office for State Political Women's Work in Hesse, an institution founded in 1952/53 to which more than 24 women's organizations in the state were affiliated. As a lawyer, Ingeborg Kleinert brought important specialist knowledge to the office. Among other things, she organized training courses for female lay assessors and gave lectures on legally relevant topics.

As she wanted to put these theoretical approaches into practice, she stood as a candidate for the SPD, which she had joined in 1960, in the elections for the city council. She was elected and was a member of the Wiesbaden city parliament between 1960 and 1965. In 1961, she was placed fifth on the list for the Bundestag elections through Lucie Beyer. She actually had no chance of entering the Bundestag, but succeeded in doing so on November 13, 1964.

The Wiesbaden SPD was once again represented in Bonn. As a trained lawyer, she was welcomed with open arms in the SPD parliamentary group. She was immediately appointed as a member of the Legal Affairs Committee. She soon attracted attention in the Bundestag and especially in the Legal Affairs Committee with her "outstanding political expertise and modest spirit".

She campaigned for the improvement of legal education. With the reform of training that she advocated, she wanted to ensure that future lawyers were aware of their "responsibility for the state in which we live" and were prepared to act in accordance with this insight.

After just eleven months, her term of office came to an end in October 1965. On December 14, 1967, she was able to move up the list again. She was once again a member of the Legal Affairs Committee. At that time, the adoption of the emergency laws was pending in parliament. The SPD was part of the Grand Coalition government and supported the laws. Ingeborg Kleinert was particularly committed to opposing the introduction of compulsory military service for women contained in the bill. However, she was unsuccessful with her objections. The amendment to the Basic Law was passed with a two-thirds majority. At the end of the fifth parliamentary term, she left the Bundestag on October 19, 1969. After her retirement, she withdrew from politics to pursue her private life.