German began her political career at age 100 and was elected a councilor

Before being elected as a consultant, Heine had been retired for 40 years. Currently, Defends the reopening of an outdoor pool.

Heise's political career began earlier this year, when a city councilor, Thomas Bock, 59, considered her a potential ally to join Kirchheimbolanden City Council in Rhineland-Palatinate (West), a few weeks after blowing her one hundred candles.

The city has been ruled for over two decades by the conservative party of Angela Merkel (CDU), and in the last term for a coalition with the Social Democrats, such as the one that has ruled the country since 2013.

This is not by chance his support for the pool. Two questions concern it: youth and public health. Thus was born its commitment to the climate, inspired by the youth mobilization of the group "Fridays for future", launched by the Swedish Greta Thunberg and very supported in Germany.

Heise integrates a growing wave of older people who do not want to be excluded from public life, such as the "Oma gegen Rechts" ("Grandmothers against the Right") movement. Created in 2017 in Austria and imported to Germany, it often brings together older women eager to learn the lessons of history and to fight against racism.

But the success of the group that incorporates Heise has been to shift the center of gravity of the city to the left. The former teacher is not only an emerging star of politics, but also a witness to much of the twentieth century uproar in Germany.

Heise's father, born just after the First World War, owned a shoe factory and was also a city councilor. After the "Broken Glbad Night" pogrom of November 1938, he confronted his colleagues at the local synagogue fire and the persecution of the Jews.