Christa Meier

{{Short description|German politician (1941–2024)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Christa Meier

| image = Christa Meier.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Meier in 2017

| birth_name = Christa Stangl

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1941|12|06}}

| birth_place = Regensburg, Germany

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2024|12|01|1941|12|06}}

| death_place =

| nationality = German

| other_names =

| occupation = Schoolteacher

| years_active =

| known_for =

| party = SPD

| office = Member of the Landtag of Bavaria

| term_start = 30 October 1978

| term_end = 3 May 1990

| office2 = Mayor of Regensburg

| term_start2 = 1990

| term_end2 = 1996

| predecessor2 = {{ill|Friedrich Viehbacher|de}}

| successor2 = Hans Schaidinger

}}

Christa Meier ({{née}} Stangl; 6 December 1941 – 1 December 2024) was a German politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she served in the Landtag of Bavaria from 1978 to 1990{{cite web|url=https://www.bayern.landtag.de/abgeordnete/abgeordnete-von-a-z/profil/christa-meier|title=Christa Meier|work=Landtag of Bavaria|language=German}} and was mayor of Regensburg from 1990 to 1996, the first woman to serve in this position.{{cite book |last=Meier|first=Christa|date=2023|title=Vorausgehen|trans-title= |url=https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/regensburg/20482.pdf|language=German|location=Bonn|publisher=Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V|isbn=978-3-98628-301-8}}

Meier died on 1 December 2024, at the age of 82.{{cite news |last=Eckl|first=Christian|date=2 December 2024|title=Große Sozialdemokratin ist tot: Regensburgs frühere Oberbürgermeisterin Christa Meier verstorben|trans-title= |url=https://www.mittelbayerische.de/lokales/stadt-regensburg/grosse-sozialdemokratin-ist-tot-regensburgs-fruehere-oberbuergermeisterin-christa-meier-verstorben-17538107|language=German|work=Mittelbayerische Zeitung|location=Regensburg|access-date=2 December 2024}}