Elke Leonhard

{{Short description|German politician (1949–2025)}}

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| name = Elke Leonhard

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1949|05|17}}

| birth_place = Fritzlar, Hesse, Germany

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2025|01|01|1949|05|17}}

| death_place = Berlin, Germany

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| occupation = Journalist

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| education = Goethe University Frankfurt
Yale University

| party = SPD

| office = Member of the Bundestag

| term_start = 20 December 1990

| term_end = 18 October 2005

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Elke Leonhard (17 May 1949 – 1 January 2025) was a German politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she served in the Bundestag from 1990 to 2005.{{cite web|url=https://webarchiv.bundestag.de/archive/2007/0206/mdb/mdb15/bio/L/leonhel0.html|title=Dr. Elke Leonhard, SPD|work=Bundestag|language=German}}

Leonhard died in Berlin on 1 January 2025, at the age of 75.{{cite news |last=Seydewitz|first=Rolf|date=11 January 2025|title=Ehemalige Parlamentarierin Elke Leonhard ist tot|url=https://www.volksfreund.de/region/rheinland-pfalz/ehemalige-spd-parlamentarierin-elke-leonhard-ist-tot_aid-122953033|trans-title= |work=Trierischer Volksfreund|language=German|location= |publisher= |access-date=15 January 2025}}