Gisela Hilbrecht

Gisela Hilbrecht , formerly Schröter , née Schreier (born August 16, 1948 in Geisa ) is a German educator and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Hilbrecht attended the Institute for Teacher Education (IfL) in Nordhausen from 1965 to 1968 . She worked as a teacher from 1968 to 1985 and then worked as a teacher at a special school for people with learning disabilities. In 1987 she began a distance learning course in rehabilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which she completed in 1989 as a special education teacher. In 1990 she became head of a special school in Sondershausen . In addition to her professional activity, Hilbrecht was a member of the Education and Science Union (GEW) and the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO) as well as the chairman of the working group for democratic educational institutions based in Bonn. Today (2009) she is a member of the board of directors, the award commission and the Franco-German commission of the Berlin- based film funding agency .

Gisela Hilbrecht is married and has two children.

politics

Hilbrecht joined the SPD in 1990, was elected to the state executive committee of the SPD Thuringia in the same year and was state chairman of the party from 1991 to 1994. From 1991 to 2001 she was a member of the Federal Executive Committee and from 1991 to 1995 a member of the Presidium of the Social Democrats. In the federal election in 1990 she was elected to the German Bundestag , to which she belonged until 2005. In parliament she was a member of the interior committee and spokeswoman for the Thuringia regional group of the SPD parliamentary group.

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Biography at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation