Christa Lörcher | |
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| Born | Christa Gisela Treumann (1941-06-24)June 24, 1941 (age 83) |
| Alma mater | University of Tübingen |
| Occupation | Member of the German Parliament |
| Political party | SPD |
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| Website | christaloercher |
Christa Gisela Lörcher[1] (néeTreumann, June 24, 1941, inGniew) is a former German politician. She was a member of the Bundestag from 1993 to 2002.
Lörcher was born inGniew,Pomeranian Voivodeship,Poland, at the time administered underNazi occupation as Mewe,Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia. She graduated from high school in 1959 and studied at theUniversity of Tübingen and at theEsslingen University of Education, graduating as a primary and secondary school teacher. She then became a secondary school teacher for mathematics and physics. She received a scholarship from the Volkswagenwerk Foundation for mathematics projects in England, the US and Sweden. She then completed practical vocational training as a geriatric nurse.
She worked as a math and physics teacher in various types of schools and collaborated on the Kahle/Lörcher mathematics work for secondary schools. She worked as a geriatric nurse in retirement and nursing homes and in geriatric psychiatry. From 1988, she was a teaching nurse for geriatric and nursing care.
Lörcher was initially a member of theGEW, then theÖTV union. She worked for theKinderschutzbund,Arbeiterwohlfahrt andFriends of Nature. Lörcher received theFederal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 2022.[1]
In 1970, Lörcher joined theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and became deputy district chairwoman. From 1989, she was a member of the district council and deputy parliamentary group leader.She was a member of the Bundestag from September 3, 1993, until the end of the 14th legislative period in 2002, where she was elected via the state list. She also ran for the direct mandate in theBundestag constituency Schwarzwald-Baar. In November 2001, Lörcher became known nationwide when she refused to vote for ChancellorSchröder in thevote of confidence, as the vote on a military deployment (war in Afghanistan) was tied to this.[2] Prior to this, she resigned from the SPD parliamentary group and was a member of the Bundestag for the remainder of the legislative period as anon-attached Member of Parliament.[3][4] Lörcher was honored in 2002 with theClara Immerwahr Award, the Peace Prize of theInternational Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).[5]