Gabriele Potthast

Gabriele Potthast (born June 3, 1955 in Wattenscheid ) is a former German politician and member of the Bundestag for the “The Greens” party . In 1983 she was elected to the 10th German Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia . She belonged to this until April 3, 1985, when she resigned her mandate as part of the rotation of MPs .

Life

Potthast attended a grammar school until 1974 and then began studying German and English to become a teacher at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1980 and 1981 she was the women's officer of the General Student Committee (ASta). After completing her studies, she first became a teacher at a vocational training school run by the German Federation of Trade Unions . She later became an employee of the educational science department of Cologne University and City Library .

politics

Potthast became involved in the women's movement in 1979, joined the state women's working group in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1982 and also joined the “The Greens” party in the same year. In the federal election one year later, she was elected to the Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia. There she was deputy parliamentary director until October 25, 1983. She was also represented as a full member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs. Due to the previously agreed rotation of MPs by the Greens, in which the MPs elected to the Bundestag voluntarily resigned halfway through their term of office in order to allow the party's subsequent list candidates to move in, Potthast left the Bundestag on April 3, 1985. Her successor was Ludger Volmer .

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 653.