Annette Schavan
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Annette Schavan (born June 10, 1955 in Jüchen) is a German politician (CDU). She is the Federal Minister of Education and Research since November 22, 2005.
From 1995-2005, she served as the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. During this time, she oversaw school education in Baden-Württemberg, and started a controversy when she disallowed a Muslim teacher to wear a head scarf in school, since that was seen as a religious symbol, while allowing Catholic nuns to wear their traditional habit.
Schavan was under discussion to become the Christian Democrats' candidate for Germany's presidency in 2004, but Horst Köhler was nominated and elected.
In 2005 she tried to succeed Erwin Teufel as Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, but her rival Günther Oettinger came in first.
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