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Gepa Maibaum (born December 21, 1935 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 7, 2007 ) was a German local politician ( SPD ) and mayor of Cologne .

Life

Gepa Maibaum initially studied philology for six semesters . She did not finish her studies and was active as chairwoman of the working group of independent political women from 1969 to 1973. As mayor, she founded the women's meeting place and organized themed evenings for more than two decades, which brought together committed women from culture and art, science, business and politics.

Gepa Maibaum had three children.

politics

Through her involvement in the women's movement, she found the SPD in 1970 and became its member. From 1973 to 1975 she was chairwoman of the SPD local association Cologne-Weiden / Lövenich , from 1975 to 1979 in the SPD district of Cologne III.

She was a member of the Cologne Council from 1975 to 1989. Women and cultural politics were some of her political priorities. In 1984 the council elected her second mayor. She held this office until she left the local parliament in 1989, after Else Schmitt the second woman in the history of the city of Cologne.

For five years, from 1979 to 1984, she was a member of the Rhineland Landscape Assembly . Here she was a member of the auditing committee as well as the project committee "Art in Architecture" and the selection committee for the award of the Rhineland Taler .

From 1989 to 1994 Gepa Maibaum was a member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Group. She was a member of the committees for regional policy and spatial planning, for women's rights and for culture, youth, education and the media as well as the delegation for relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , and later with the republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). She was also the cultural policy spokeswoman for the German group of SPD members in the European Parliament. At the end of the eighties she was chairwoman of the committee for culture, leisure and sport in the social democratic community for local politics (SGK).

“ The European idea was deeply rooted in Gepa Maibaum. Even after you left parliament, she continued her commitment to European integration as chairwoman of the Cologne district association of the European Union. She was instrumental in setting up the Cologne Europe Information Center, for which she campaigned through her nationwide lobbying work on many social and political levels, ”said Jochen Ott , chairman of the SPD in Cologne in an obituary.

In addition, she was active as chairwoman of the Cologne district association of the Europa-Union Deutschland , of which she was deputy board member from 1994 to 1996, and since 1996 its chairman.

For more than two decades she was involved in voluntary work in various board positions in the workers' welfare organization.

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  1. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Maypole, Gepa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Cologne mayor and MEP
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2007