Angela Schneider (May 31, 1944, in Rabenstein) is a German politician (PDS). She was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR for a few months in 1990 and served as a member of the Saxon State Parliament from 1990 to 2004. Schneider attended the extended secondary school in Karl-Marx-Stadt and graduated in 1962. She then studied German and Sports at the Zwickau Pedagogical Institute until 1966. After that, she worked as a teacher in Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1968 and then in Altendorf until 1970. From 1970, she took on the role of deputy director of this school, a position she held until 1978. Between 1978 and 1980, she was a political staff member of the district leadership of the SED in Karl-Marx-Stadt, and then she served as the director of several schools in Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1990. In 1990, she became a member of the GEW.