Famous People with Name Herta

Herta Anitas            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Herta Anitas: is a Romanian rower. She won a silver and a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.

Herta Wunder            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Herta Wunder: was a German freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 she finished fourth with the German relay team in the 4x100 metre freestyle relay competition.

Herta Däubler-Gmelin            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Herta Däubler-Gmelin: is a former German Minister of Justice. Amid controversy, she resigned in 2002 after a remark about George W. Bush. She joined the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1965 and became a member of the Bundestag in 1972. She held several party offices in the 1980s and '90s, serving as deputy party chairman from 1988-97. From 1994-98 she was chairwoman of the "Rechtspolitik" working group and legal adviser to the SPD parliamentary group. In 1993, the SPD nominated her to fill the vacancy of vice-president of the Federal Constitutional Court, but after conservative parliamentary groups blocked the nomination for nine months as being "too political" she abandoned this career step in favor of Jutta Limbach.