
Christine Lucyga (born 6 April 1944) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) and former member of theEast GermanVolkskammer (March–October 1990) and theBundestag (1990–2005).
Lucyga was born inKolberg,Pomerania (today Kołobrzeg,Poland) and grew up inRostock, East Germany after herhometown became part of Poland after World War II.
She studiedSlavonic andSpanish studies at theUniversity of Rostock and made her doctorate on literature ofLatin America in 1980. Between 1969 and 1989 she worked as a teacher of foreign languages at the nautical school atWarnemünde and the Rostock University.
In September 1989 Lucyga joined the opposition partyNeues Forum and in late 1989 theSocial Democratic Party of Germany. She was elected as theVolkskammer delegate of Rostock in the first free election in East Germany in March 1990 and became a member of the German Bundestag after the reunification of Germany in October 1990. Lucyga was reelected in 1994, 1998, 2002 and abandoned to candidate in 2005.
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