Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop
Appearance
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Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop (born 27 July 1945, in Hanover) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). She was until 2009 a Member of the European Parliament, where she was a Vice-Chair of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets, as well as being a substitute on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Budgetary Control.
Her husband Enrique Casas was assassinated by the Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas (CAA) in 1984.[1]
Education
- 1971: Graduate in humanities of the University of Uppsala (Sweden)
- 1973: Language teacher in Hamburg
Career
- 1974-1978: Deputy Chair of the Erlangen-Nürnberg University
- 1978-1987: Language teacher at the Usandizaga Institute and the German School (San Sebastián)
- 1995: Chair of the Board of the German School in San Sebastian
- 1999: Member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Euskadi - Euskadiko Ezkerra
- since 1987: Member of the European Parliament
- 1989-1994: Socialist coordinator on the Committee on Culture and Education
- 1994-1999: Vice-Chairwoman of the Committee on Budgets
- 1995: Awarded the Mujer Progresista prize
Decorations
- Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Republic of Austria
See also
References
- ^ Luis R. Aizpeolea. «15 tiros y 25 años después». El País.
External links
- Personal profile of Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop in the European Parliament's database of members
- Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Spanish)
Categories:
- 1945 births
- Female MEPs for Spain
- Living people
- People from Hanover
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians
- Uppsala University alumni
- MEPs for Spain 1987–89
- MEPs for Spain 1989–94
- MEPs for Spain 1994–99
- MEPs for Spain 1999–2004
- MEPs for Spain 2004–09
- Spanish people of German descent
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party MEPs
- Spanish women in politics
- Spanish MEP stubs