Biography

Programmer and systems analyst.

From 1991 to 2000, member of HBV (now ver.di), AWO, Bund Naturschutz, AIDS-Hilfe, Board of Trustees of the German Child Protection League and the Socialist Youth of Germany "Die Falken"; from 1993 to 2002, President of the Bavarian Youth Red Cross and the Central Office for the Right and Protection of Conscientious Objectors; May to October 2002, President of the German Family Association.

Member of the SPD since 1972, 1991 to 2000 state chairwoman of the Bavarian SPD, 1997 to 2003 deputy chairwoman of the federal SPD.

Member of the Bavarian State Parliament 1994 to 2000.

Member of the Bundestag from 1980 to 1994 and since 2005; from 1987 to 1990 Deputy Chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group and Chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group's working group on "Equality between Men and Women." Vice President of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 1994. Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 2002 to 2005.
- IMDb mini biography by: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth

German Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 2002 to 2005 for the Social Democratic Party.