Brigitte Unger-Soyka

Brigitte Unger-Soyka (* 9. January 1949 in Friedrichshafen as Brigitte Soyka ) is a German educator and politician ( SPD ). She was a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament from 1988 to 1996.

Life

After graduating from high school, Unger-Soyka trained as a primary and secondary school teacher at the Weingarten University of Education . She then studied special education and educational science at the University of Heidelberg and finished her studies with a degree in education. After several years abroad in England and Canada , she worked from 1978 to 1988 as a teacher at a school for the physically handicapped in Pforzheim and at the speech therapy school in Heidelberg .

From 1999 to 2005 she was head of the gender equality department in the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth.

Brigitte Unger-Soyka is married to the pharmacologist Thomas Unger. They live together in Berlin and have three children.

Political activity

Unger-Soyka was actively involved in the peace movement in the 1980s , joined the SPD in 1984 and was elected to the Baden-Württemberg state parliament in 1988 as a member of her Heidelberg constituency.

During the grand coalition in Baden-Württemberg, Unger-Soyka served from June 11, 1992 to June 11, 1996 as Minister for Family, Women, Further Education and Art in the state government led by Prime Minister Erwin Teufel . Unger-Soyka left the state parliament in 1996.

literature

• Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German parliamentarians from 1919 to today , Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-923476-15-9 , p. 233 ff.

Web links

• Education and Belly Dance (Spiegel online June 8, 1992)