Ulrike Bahr | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2013 | |
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| Born | Ulrike Renate Martina Bahr (1964-04-25)25 April 1964 (age 61) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
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Ulrike Renate Martina Bahr (German pronunciation:[ʊlˈʁiːkəˈbaːɐ̯]; born 25 April 1964) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) and since 2013 MP in theBundestag. She belongs to the left party wing of the SPD, the Parliamentary Left (Parlamentarische Linke).[1] Between 2018 and 2019, she was one of the members of the SPD parliamentary group who voted most often against theparty line.[2]
Bahr was born inNördlingen, but grew up inWemding and attended the local primary school, where her father worked as a teacher, from 1970 to 1974. In 1974 she moved to the Theodor Heuss High School inNördlingen, where she graduated in 1983. She then studied English, history, German and music at theUniversity of Augsburg to become a secondary school teacher. In 1989 she obtained the first state examination and became a trainee teacher in Wemding. She graduated in 1991 with the Second State Examination.
Bahr worked as a secondary school teacher inMonheim and Wemding. From 1993 she was employed at various schools in Augsburg as a teacher.[3]
In 1986, Bahr became a member of the SPD. From 2002 to 2012 she sat in the city council ofAugsburg. From 2009 to 2012 she was the chairwoman of the SPD Ortsverein (local association) Jakobervorstadt/Bleich. She also was elected chairwoman of the SPD Augsburg.[3]
In 2012, Bahr stood as a candidate for the Bundestag. She announced that she would give up her mandate in the city council after a successful election, as she sought no double mandate. Since 2013, she has been deputy chairwoman of the SPDSwabia.
In2013, Bahr ran for the Bundestag in the constituency ofAugsburg-Stadt and was elected via the list of her party. In parliament, she has since been a member of the Committee on Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, where she is her parliamentary group'srapporteur on children, adolescents, andprostitution. In addition, she was a member of the Subcommittee on Citizenship and the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Since the2021 elections, Bahr has been chairing the Committee on Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.[4]
Within the SPD parliamentary group, Bahr belongs to theParliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[5]
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