Uta Zapf

Uta Zapf born Poetschke ( born August 14, 1941 in Liegnitz, Silesia ) is a German politician (SPD).

She's since 1998, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag.

Life and career

After graduation in 1962 Uta Zapf graduated in German, English and Literature at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. Subsequently, she worked as a freelancer for publishers as an editor and translator. Later, she also worked as a lecturer in adult education.

Uta Zapf is married and has one child.

Party

She joined the SPD in 1972 and since 1990 Chairman of the Commission International Politics and Peace in the SPD district board Hesse south. From 1995 to 2001, she also belonged to the SPD in Hesse State Executive Committee and from 1999 to 2000 and the SPD Party Council.

Uta Zapf belongs since 1983 to the SPD district board Hesse South and is here since 1990 Deputy District Chairman. In 2003, she was one of the founders of the Forum A World of Hesse SPD south. Since 2005 she directs the Working Group on Migration of the District Association Hesse south.

Member of Parliament

From 1985 to 1992 Uta Zapf was a member of the City Council of Dreieich.

Since 1990 she is member of the German Bundestag. Here she was 1995-1998 spokeswoman for the Working Group on Disarmament and Arms Control and next chairman of the discussion group Kurds of the SPD parliamentary fraction.

Since 1998, Uta Zapf Chairperson of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag and next deputy spokesperson of the Working Group 's foreign policy. From 1998 to 2005, she also belonged to the SPD Parliamentary Group Executive Board.

Since 1998, Uta Zapf Chairperson of the German - Belarusian parliamentarians group, deputy since 2002, spokeswoman for the state Hessen in the SPD Parliamentary Group, and member of the International Crisis Group. Since January 2003, she also manages the Group Discussion Group Southeastern Europe.

Uta Zapf is drafted as directly elected representatives of the constituency Offenbach and otherwise always over the national list Hesse in the Bundestag in 1998 and 2002. In the upcoming parliamentary election in 2013 they will no longer be standing.

Memberships

Journal is a member of the European Union Parliamentarians German Bundestag.