Anke Fuchs

Anke Fuchs born Never Mann ( born July 5, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German politician (SPD).

She was from April to October 1982 Minister Minister for Youth, Family and Health and from 1998 to 2002 Vice- President of the German Bundestag.

Education and work

After graduating in 1956, Anke Fuchs began to study law, which she finished with the first and 1964 with the second legal state examination. Then she was until 1968 a consultant for Labour and Social Policy at the DGB district Nordmark. 1971 to 1977 she took over the function of an executive board member of IG Metall.

Family

Anke Fuchs is married to the former Bremer State Andreas Fuchs and has two children. She is the daughter of Paul Never man (SPD ) 1961-1965 First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Party

Since 1956, Fox has been a member of the SPD. From 1979, she served on the SPD's federal executive. For the state elections in Lower Saxony on June 15, 1986, she worked as SPD's top candidate in the interview. However, after the later Chancellor Gerhard Schröder announced his candidacy and had secured to the support of several district associations of his party, renounced fox. From 1986 to 1991 she was a member of the Board of the SPD. From 15 June 1987 to 1991 she was the first woman national director of the SPD.

When choosing the first Saxon state parliament after the end of the GDR on 14 October 1990, she ran against Kurt Biedenkopf as a top candidate of the SPD. She was the first woman who was ever in state elections in Germany at the head of a people's party. The goal of becoming Prime Minister, she could not reach due to the poor performance of her party, the second vote share of 19.1 %, however, is still the best ever state election result of the Saxon SPD.

Member of Parliament

In 1971 she was elected to the Hamburg Parliament.

From 1980 to 2002 she was a member of the German Bundestag. From April 1993 to October 1998 she was here Deputy Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group. From October 1998 to October 2002, she held the office of then Vice President of the German Bundestag.

Anke Fuchs in 1980 and 1998, otherwise always drawn as directly elected representatives of the constituency Cologne II and on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Bundestag.

Public offices

On April 26, 1977, she was appointed State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

After the parliamentary election in 1980, she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs.

In a cabinet reshuffle, she was appointed on 28 April 1982 the Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health, shortly before the end of the socialist-liberal coalition. After the election of Helmut Kohl as Chancellor she retired from the federal government on October 4, 1982.

Social offices

From 1995 to 2007 she was president of the German Tenants' Association, an office which had previously occupied her father. She was also from 2003 to 2010 chairman of the Friedrich- Ebert -Stiftung. In addition, she is the Chair of the Board of DMB Legal Expenses Insurance AG

Honors

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