Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg, real name Beate Hartung (20 June 1926 – 17 September 2017[1]) was a German teacher and author.
Born in Hamm, Schmeichel-Falkenberg studied German and English at the University of Göttingen and then worked as a journalist for the BBC in England.
With her second husband Manfred Schmeichel, she founded a special education school in Mössingen, which is part of today's Stiftung KBF [de].
[2] Schmeichel-Falkenberg worked for some time at Westdeutscher Rundfunk as a presenter in the programme Hier und heute [de] and at the University of Münster at the Institutum Judaicum.
Schmeickel-Falkenberg lived in Mössingen where she died at the age of 91 and [3] was buried in the local cemetery.