Petra Merkel | |
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 Petra Merkel in 2008 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2002–2013 | |
| Constituency | Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1947-09-18)18 September 1947 (age 78) Berlin, Germany |
| Party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
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Petra-Evelyne Merkel (née Schwoob; born 18 September 1947) is a former German politician from theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
After completing hersecondary education, Petra Merkel attended the commercial vocational school of theLette-Verein inBerlin and worked as a commercial employee from 1966 to 1969 and again from 1979 onwards.
Petra Merkel is Protestant, divorced, and has one daughter.[1]
Since the early 1970s, Petra Merkel founded a parent-child group in Charlottenburg-Nord at the former youth center on Halemweg. Later, she became involved as a parent representative at the Erwin-von-Witzleben Elementary School and subsequently at theCarl-Friedrich-von-Siemens-Gymnasium [de].
Petra Merkel has been involved with the International Federation since the early 1990s. She started in Berlin at the training hotel onKurfürstendamm, and later joined the IB Berlin office in Reinickendorf, located on Aroser Allee. In 2007, she became a member of the International Federation's executive board. In 2013, Petra Merkel was elected honorary president of theInternationaler Bund, a position she still holds today.[2]
In 2002, Petra Merkel became a member of theEuropean Academy Berlin [de] and remains on the board of the association to this day.
She has been President of the Berlin Choral Association since 2009,[3] a member of the Presidium of the German Choral Association (Deutscher Chorverband [de])[4] since 2011, and Vice President of the German Choral Association since 2008.
In November 2015, Petra Merkel founded Begegnungschor e. V. with the Chorverband Berlin[5] and has been treasurer ever since.[6]
Petra Merkel has been a member of the board of trustees of theSociety for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin [de] for several years .
Since 2022, Petra Merkel has been a member of the University Council ofMediadesign Hochschule [de].[7]
A particularly significant event for Petra Merkel was the suggestion in 2012 to lay a Stolperstein (memorial plaque) for Paula Dienstag[8] at Goethestraße 15, in front of a daycare center. By a stroke of luck, she got in touch with Yuval Doron, Paula Dienstag's grandson.[9]
Merkel has been a member of theSPD since 1974.
From 1981 to 1989, Petra Merkel was a member of thedistrict assembly [de] of Berlin-Charlottenburg, and from 1989 to 2001, a member of theAbgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. There, she was deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group from 1994 to 1995 andparliamentary managing director from 1995 to 2001.
From 2002 to 2013, she was amember of the German Bundestag. There, she served as deputy spokesperson for the Berlin regional group within theSPDparliamentary group from 2002. From the end of 2005, she also served as deputy spokesperson for the parliamentary group's working group on the budget and was a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee. From 2009 to 2013, she chaired the Bundestag'sBudget Committee.
Petra Merkel wasdirectly elected to theBundestag in theBerlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorfconstituency from 2002 to 2013. In the2009 election, she received 32.0% of thefirst-preference votes there; she did not run again in2013.[10]
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