Martina Bunge

Martina Bunge born Gasch ( born May 18, 1951 in Leipzig ) is a German politician (The Left ). From 1998 to 2002 she was Minister of Social Affairs of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. From 2005 to 2009 she was president of the parliamentary committee on health.

Life and career

After graduation in 1969 at a high school Advanced Martina Bunge worked in the electronic data processing and completed at the same time a study of mathematics, which she finished in 1973 with a degree in mathematics. From 1975 she worked as a research assistant at the University of Rostock. In addition, she completed a correspondence course for graduate teacher of Marxism -Leninism, which she completed in 1978. In 1985, her PhD ( thesis A) Dr. oec. with the work to economic stimulation of the production of means of consumption in the combines of the means of production manufacturing industry. After that was Martina Bunge 1986-1989 aspirant at the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the SED in Berlin. In 1989 she qualified as a professor here with the work Planned preparation and development of labor resources in society through education and training in the transformation of work by the Scientific and Technological Revolution (Dissertation B).

From 1990 until 1991 Martina Bunge was a staff member in the Commission's economic and social affairs at the Federal Executive of the PDS. She then until 1998 Consultant for Social Policy at the group of PDS in the German Bundestag.

Martina Bunge is divorced and has two children.

Party

1980 Martina Bunge became a member of the SED. From 1996 to 2000 she was Deputy Chairman of the PDS National Association of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern. From 2004 to 2007 she was chairman of the Left - district association Wismar.

Member of Parliament

From 1998 to 2005 Martina Bunge was a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Since 2005 she is member of the German Bundestag, where he was from October 2005 to October 2009 chairman of the Committee on Health. Having moved over the national list of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the Bundestag.

Public offices

From 1998 to 2002 she served on the Minister for Health and Social Affairs led by Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff state government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.