Barbara Weiler

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Barbara Weiler (* 17th September 1946 in Dusseldorf ) was from 1994 to 2014 MEP for the SPD in the Socialist Group in the European Parliament .

education and profession

After graduating from secondary school in 1963, Barbara Weiler attended evening grammar school and completed a language course in Great Britain from 1965 to 1967 . Between 1965 and 1985 she worked as a commercial clerk in industrial companies (as clerk, chief secretary, authorized signatory).

politics

Barbara Weiler's interest in politics was aroused in 1962 by the Easter march movement . She has been a member of the SPD since 1970 and was the citizen's representative in Willich , Viersen district from 1971 to 1975 . From 1975 to 1985 she was city councilor in Willich and then until 1987 managing director of the SPD in the Fulda district . In the SPD she was a member of the Hessian state executive from 1991 to 1995.

Barbara Weiler was a member of the German Bundestag in the 11th and 12th electoral periods (1987 to 1994) .

In 1994 she was elected to the European Parliament, where she had the following tasks and responsibilities:

Between 2009 and 2014, Weiler was a member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection , the Special Committee against Organized Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering and the Delegation for Relations with the Countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ).

She served as a deputy in the Committee on Budgetary Control and in the delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.

Memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the European Parliament