Heide Langguth

Heide Langguth (born March 3, 1945 in Kreuzwertheim ) is a German political scientist .

Langguth graduated from the Goethe-Gymnasium in Ludwigsburg in 1966 . From 1967 to 1973 she studied political science, sociology and German at the universities of Tübingen, Munich and Frankfurt am Main. She passed the state examination for teaching at high schools.

From 1974 to 1975 she was an academic tutor at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg . From 1974 to 1977 Langguth did educational and consulting work for foreign workers and their families. From 1979 to 1982 she was a research assistant in the research project “... Further Education in the Country” and from 1982 to 1983 teaching positions at the University of Oldenburg. She then worked until 1984 as a consultant at the Federation of Socialist Parties in the European Economic Community at the European Parliament in Brussels and then until 1989 as a research assistant for an office community of five MEPs.

From 1989, Langguth was press spokeswoman and head of department in women's, media and European politics in the Bavarian region of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB). In 2002 she was elected deputy chairwoman of the DGB district of Bavaria, and in 2006 she was re-elected. From 2005 to 2008 she was Vice-Chair of the Interregional Trade Union Councils at the European Trade Union Confederation in Brussels. Langguth has been retired since March 2010.

From May 12, 1997 until its dissolution on December 31, 1999, she was a member of the Bavarian Senate . From 1994 to 2012 she was a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation .

In 2011 Langguth received the Bavarian Constitutional Medal .

Web links

• Heide Langguth in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History