Bettina Bähr-Losse | |
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| Member of theBundestag forNorth Rhine-Westphalia | |
| In office 1 October 2016 – 24 October 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Peer Steinbrück |
| Constituency | Social Democratic List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1967-01-28)28 January 1967 (age 58) |
Bettina Bähr-Losse (born 28 January 1967) is a German lawyer and politician (SPD). From 1 October 2016 until the end of the 2017 legislative period, she was a member of theBundestag.
Bettina Bähr-Losse was born inBraunschweig, where she obtained her early education at the Jugenddorf-Christophorusschule Braunschweig. She went on to study law at the universities inRegensburg,Göttingen andBonn. After the legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne she is a lawyer inSankt Augustin withfamily law as a focal point of her law practice.[1]
Bähr-Losse is deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group in the district council ofRhein-Sieg-Kreis. In theFederal election 2013 she ran inRhein-Sieg-Kreis II, but won no mandate. Since she was second of the SPD party list in North Rhine-Westphalia for the 18th Bundestag, she replacedPeer Steinbrück on 1 October 2016 in the Bundestag.[1][2] However, at thefederal election 2017 she was again unable to win a mandate.