Résumé
Parliamentary Chamber: German Bundestag
Constituency: Offenbach (Hesse)
Party: Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD
Date of birth: August 14, 1941
Education: Studied Literature
Profession: Teacher in adult education; freelance editor
Political career:
since 1972 Member of the SPD
1990 – 2009 SPD District Vice Chairwoman for South Hesse (board member since 1983)
since 1990 Member of the German Bundestag
- Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Chairwoman of the Sub-Committee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
- Deputy member of the Committee on Defence since
- Chairwoman of the German-Belarusian Parliamentary Friendship Group
- Deputy chairwoman of the Round Table South Eastern Europe of the SPD Parliamentary Group
- Member of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South-Eastern Europe and the German-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group
- Vice-president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (member since 1998)
- Head of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Belarus of the OSCE PA
- Deputy Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs of the SPD Parliamentary Group
- Member of the Committee for International Policy of the SPD
- Member of the Coordination Group Turkey of the SPD
Additional memberships:
- Vice President of the Southeast Europe Association (SOG)
- Board Member of TÜSIAD (Turkish Industry and Business Association)
- Advisory Board Member of the International Crisis Group since 2002, Senior Advisor since 2006
- Member of the Advisory Board for Civilian Crisis Prevention of the German government since 2004
- Member of the Supervisory Board of the German government’s Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) since 2004
- Co-President of the Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament (PNND) since 2007
- Member of the Network Crisis Prevention of the East West Institute since 2008
Key focus areas:
Disarmament, arms control, security policy, crisis prevention, South Eastern Europe (Turkey, Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe), Afghanistan, Belarus
