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Heide Maria Anna Pfarr (born October 12, 1944 in Godendorf ) is a German legal scholar and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Heide Pfarr grew up in Berlin . After graduating from high school (1963), she studied law at the Free University of Berlin until 1968 . Heide Pfarr received his doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on the law of the GDR . After her legal traineeship, she also passed the second state examination in Berlin in 1973. In 1974 she became an assistant professor at the FU and in 1976 she became a professor at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences . In 1977 she was offered a position at the University of Hamburg , where she taught civil law and labor law . From 1984 to 1986 she was Vice President of the University of Hamburg. The focus of her research and various publications is the equality of women in working life.

From 1995 to 2011 Heide Pfarr was director of the Economic and Social Science Institute and a member of the management of the Hans Böckler Foundation . The focus of her research there was empirically and interdisciplinary based labor law.

Pfarr was married to the former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court and President of the Federal Labor Court Thomas Dieterich († May 6, 2016).

politics

Heide Pfarr has been a member of the SPD since 1971. In 1972 she worked as a research assistant in the preparation of materials for the labor law section of the State of the Union Report. In 1980, together with Klaus Bertelsmann, she prepared a study for the then social-liberal federal government on the subject of "Equal Pay - On the Jurisprudence in Gender-Specific Pay Discrimination".

In 1983 she was a candidate for the Justice and Home Affairs department of Björn Engholms' shadow cabinet in Schleswig-Holstein and was appointed Minister of Economics in Gerhard Schröder's shadow cabinet in the 1986 election of Lower Saxony . In 1989 the newly elected Governing Mayor of Berlin, Walter Momper , appointed her as Senator for Federal Affairs in the red-green Senate of Berlin. After the resignation of her Senate colleague Sybille Volkholz on November 19, 1990, she also took over the provisional department for school system, vocational training and sport, but left the two just a few weeks later with the new election on December 2, 1990 and the subsequent formation of a black and red state government Offices.

In April 1991 she became a member of the Hessian state government under Prime Minister Hans Eichel as Hessian Minister of State for Women, Labor and Social Affairs . In May 1993 she resigned from this post after it became public knowledge that she had been reimbursed for renovation costs for her private apartment from the state treasury. The final investigations by the public prosecutor's office showed, however, that no personal or legally sanctionable accusation could be made.

See also

• Senate Momper
• Cabinet acorn I

literature

• Ilse Lenz (ed.): The new women's movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heide Pfarr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography of Heide Pfarr ( memento from February 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brigitte Unger is the new WSI Director ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
2. ^ Inken Petersen: The Independent ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ What everyone gets. In: Spiegel Online . May 17, 1993, accessed March 31, 2020 .