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Grand Duchy of Luxembourg/Grussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg/Grand-Duché de Luxembourg/Grossherzogtum Luxemburg (Female suffrage 1918) Sovereign nation 1815 in personal union with the kings of the Netherlands until 1890 when Queen Wilhelmina succeeded to the throne. In Luxembourg the salic law still prevailed, and an other branch of the House of Nassau succeeded to the throne of Luxembourg

Also see Luxembourg Heads and Luxembourg Parliament

1908 Lieutenant-Representante Grand-Duchesse Maria-Anna de Bragança (19.03-18.11)
1908-1912 Grande Duchesse Regent (18.11-14.6)
Regent for her husband Grand Duke Guillaume IV who was blind, and afterwards for her daughter, who came of age after 4 months after ascending to the throne. Maria-Anna was born Infanta of Portugal. She lived (1861-1942).

1912-19 Grand Duchess Maria-Adélheïde zu Nassau-Weilburg (25.2-15.1)
Her full title was By the Grace of God Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Duchess of Nassau, Countess-Palatine and Electress of the Rhine, Countess of Sayn, Hadenburg, Königstein, Krazenborgen and Dietz, Burgravine of Hammerstein, Dame of Mahlberg, Wiesbaden, Idstein, Merenberg, Limburg and Eppstein.
She abdicated in favour of her sister. She was the oldest of 6 sisters. Unmarried. She retired to a convent in Italy, where she died, having lived (1894-1924).

1919-64 Grande-Duchesse Charlotte zu Nassau-Weilburg (15.1-12.12)
1940-44 Leader of the government in exile (10.5-10.9)
By the Grace of God Grande-Duchess of Luxembourg, Duchess of Nassau etc.
Married to Prince Félix  de Bourbon-Parma, Prince-Consort of Luxembourg, abdicated in favour of her son, Grand Duke Jean, the oldest of 6 children, who abdicated in 2001. He had been appointed Lieutenant-General in 1961. She lived (1896-1985).

1967-69 Secretary of State of Family, Social Solidarity, Youth, Population and National Education, Culture and Religous Affairs
1969-71 Minister of Family, Youth, Social Solidarity, Health, Culture and Religious Affairs Madeleine Frieden-Kinnen
Widow of Pierre Frieden, who was Premier Minister in 1958, and died the year after.

1980-84 Vice-Premier Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, External Trade, Economy, the Self Employed and of Justice Colette Flesh                 
Mayor of Luxembourg Ville 1970-80, Secretary General and Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group 1974-80 and Chairperson of Parti Democratique 1980-91, President of The Federation of European Liberal Parties  1984-90, President of the Council of Minister of the European Economic Communities in 1980 (20.11-31.12), Director General of The Directorate General of Information and 1997-99 Director General of the General Directorate of Translation of the European Union 1991-97 and from 1999 Member of the European Parliament (b. 1934- ).

1989-94 Secretary of State of Social Affairs, Health, Sport and Youth Mady Delvaux-Stehres
1994-99 Minister of Communication, Transport and Social Security
2004- Minister of National Education and Professional Training
Socialist MP and Member of the Council of Europe since 1999. (b. 1950-).

1992-95 Minister of Agriculture, Vinticulture and Rural Development Marie-Josée Jacobs
1992-94 Minister-Delegate of Culture and Research
1995- Minister of Family, Women’s Promotion and Disabled
1999-2004 Minister of Social Solidarity
Vice-President of Parti Chrétien Social In 1981-92 and from 2003 (b. 1950-).

1995-2004 Minister of Cultural and Religious Affairs and Research Erna Hennicot-Schoepges
1995-99 Minister of National Education
1999-2004 Minister of Higher Education and Public Works
Mayor of Walfendange 1988-95, 1989-95 President of the Chambre des Députés 1989-93 Vice-President and 1993-94 President of the Interregional Parliamentarian Council of the EU. President of Parti Chrétien Social 1995-2003. From 2004 Member of the European Parliament. (b. 1941-).

1998-99 State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Co-operation and Secretary of State of Public Works Lydie Err
In 1989-91 Vice-President and 1995-98 Member of the Bureau of the Chambre des Députés, 1989-98 Vice-President of the Parliamentary Group of Parti Ouvrier Socialiste Luxembourgois and Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs and European Committee, from 1997 Vice-President of the P.O.S.L., 1997 Vice-Chairperson of the European Council. 2004 Vice-President of the Chamber of Representatives. (b. 1949-).

1999-2004 Vice-Premier Minister and Minister of External Affairs and External Trade, of Public Service and Administrative Reform Lydie Polfer
Mayor of Luxembourg Ville 1982-99, Member of the Bureau of Chamber des Deputées, 1994-2004 President of the Parti Democratique. From 2004 Member of the European Parliament. (b. 1952-).

1999-2004 Minister of National Education, Professional Training and Sports Anne Brasseur
In 1981 Councillor for Communal Constructions and Transport of Luxembourg Ville, former Vice-President of the Parliamentary Group of the Parti Démocratique. (b. 1950-).