Biography

Studies in Tübingen and Berlin.

Lawyer in Berlin; honorary professorship at the Free University of Berlin, associate professorship at Tongij University Shanghai.

Patron of the German Hospice Movement (BAG); member of the board of trustees of various humanitarian foundations.

Member of the SPD since 1965, member of the federal executive committee since 1978, deputy federal chairwoman of the SPD from 1988 to 1997.

Member of the Bundestag since 1972; various offices (chairwoman of the Legal Affairs Committee, chairwoman of the Committee on Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture), 1983 to 1993 deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group, 1994 to 1998 legal advisor to the SPD parliamentary group, since November 2005 chairwoman of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. 1998 to 2002 Federal Minister of Justice.
- IMDb mini biography by: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth

Because she compared the President of the United States of America, George Bush Jr., with Adolf Hitler, she was put out of her office as federal German secretary of justice in September, 2002.

German Minister of Justice (1998-2002).