Meta Ditzel

Meta Katrine Nedergaard Ditzel  (6 October 1910 – 19 June 1999) was a Danish politician who focussed on the issue of peace.

Meta Nedergaard was born on 6 October 1910 in Tarm, West Jutland. She graduated in philosophy from Aarhus University and also studied French and German in Paris and Vienna. She became a school teacher and by 1950 was a school head teacher.

From 1968 to 1975, she was a member of the Folketing (Danish parliament) for the Radical Left Party, Det Radikale Venstre, representing Aarhus constituency.

In 1942 she published a novel, Thi Adam dannedes først  (Because Adam was formed first) which concerned the tensions between women's roles in work and marriage.

She married museum inspector Harald Ditzel (1915-1986) in 1941 and they had two daughters.

Meta Ditzel died in Viborg on 19 June 1999.