Angelika Graf, née Bachmann, (born May 10, 1947, inMunich) is a German politician. She is a member of theSocial Democratic Party of Germany.
After graduating fromStädtisches Luisengymnasium in Munich in 1966, Graf studiedmathematics andphysics atTechnical University of Munich.
From 1971 to 1976, she worked as aprogrammer atSiemens AG andPapierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg inRaubling. After the birth of her first daughter, she was a housewife until 1991. She then worked as a pedagogical employee atDiakonisches Werk inRosenheim. From 1992 to 1993, she was also the publisher of a monthly county newspaper.
Angelika Graf is divorced and has two daughters.
Graf has been a member of theSPD since 1977; she has held various (honorary) offices since then. She was, among other things. Local and sub-district chairwoman, deputy district chairwoman ofUpper Bavaria, local councillor inRaubling (district of Rosenheim), district councillor and currently city councillor inRosenheim since 2008. She was also a board member of the BavarianWorking Group of Social Democratic Women (AsF). Graf has been a state board member of theBayern-SPD since 2005 and was the state chairwoman of the AG 60 plus Bayern for many years; in 2007 she was elected to the federal board of the AG 60 plus. Since August 2011, she has been the federal chairwoman of theArbeitsgemeinschaft SPD 60 plus. As chairwoman of the SPD Seniors, she criticized, among other things, the planned lowering of the pension level within the statutory pension insurance scheme.[1][2]
Angelika Graf was aMember of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2013 – most recently as a member of the Committees on Health and Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. In the 15th and 16th legislative periods (2002–2005 and 2008–2009), Graf was deputy spokesperson of theSPD parliamentary group for family, senior citizens, women and youth. Since the 16th legislative period (2005), she has been the SPD parliamentary group's deputy spokesperson for human rights and humanitarian aid. In the Committee on Health, she was the responsible rapporteur for drugs and addiction, prevention and Europe and thus also the SPD parliamentary group's Commissioner for Drugs.
Angelika Graf has always entered the German Bundestag via thestate list Bavaria into the German Bundestag. Herconstituency wasRosenheim.