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Adelheid D. Tröscher (born 16 February 1939) is a German educator and politician (SPD). She was amember of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2002.
Tröscher was born inBerlin. She attended grammar school and high school in Ithaca, New York, United States, graduating in 1959. She then studied education, history and English language and literature inMarburg, Jugenheim an der Bergstraße andFrankfurt am Main and passed her first and second state examinations to become a teacher at secondary schools. In 1962 she was accepted into the teaching profession and from 1975 to 1976 she worked in the school department of theRegierungspräsidium Darmstadt. From 1986 to 1992, she was head of the Paul Hindemith Comprehensive School in Frankfurt am Main.
After leaving the parliamentary group in the Bundestag of her own accord, she became involved in the SPD on a voluntary basis, particularly in theForum One World, which deals with development policy issues. She also heads the Rhine-Main regional group ofTransparency International. She is also involved as chairwoman of the Citoyen Foundation, which supports civic engagement and is particularly concerned with the artistic and aesthetic education of children and young people.
Tröscher is the daughter of Tassilo Tröscher.
Tröscher joined the SPD in 1966. From 1972 to 1977, from 1981 to 1989 and in 1991 she was a city councillor of the city of Frankfurt am Main, and from 1992 to 1993 a full-time district councillor of theKreis Offenbach.
From November 1994 to October 2002, Tröscher was a member of theGerman Bundestag for two terms. In the 1994Bundestag election, she entered parliament via theSPD state list, and in the 1998Bundestag election she won the direct mandate in the constituency 144 (Odenwald). From 1994 to 2002, she was a member of theCommittee on Economic Cooperation and Development and from 1996 to 2002, she was the SPD parliamentary group's spokesperson on development policy.
Tröscher is a member ofGEW,AWO,Kinderschutzbund,Pro Familia andmedico international. In 1999 she became a member of the board of trustees and the administrative committee ofDeutsche Stiftung für internationale Entwicklung (DSE) and a member ofGerman Foundation for International Development. (DSE) and a member ofGerman Agro Action.[1]
