Helga Schmedt

Helga Schmedt , née Pfeiffer (born May 10, 1929 in Essen ) is a German SPD politician and former member of the German Bundestag .

Life

Schmedt completed elementary school and then business school and obtained secondary school leaving certificate. After completing a commercial apprenticeship, she first worked in industry and later in employment agency. In 1972 she moved to the local government as an administrator. She joined the SPD in the same year.

politics

Schmedt she was active in the Working Group of Social Democratic Women (AsF), was district chairman and in 1977 was accepted into the SPD state executive committee of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Schmedt sat in the German Bundestag from November 4, 1980 until the end of the ninth legislative period in 1983, into which she was elected over the German Bundestag. In parliament she sat, among other things, in the committee for regional planning, building and urban development and within her group in the working group on environmental protection. She was also secretary since March 1982. After she was not re-elected in the 1983 federal election , she moved up to the federal parliament on September 1, 1983 for Manfred Lahnstein, who had left the parliament. She was a member of the German Bundestag until the end of the tenth legislative period in 1987, when she was a member of the Committee for Economic Cooperation.

For her party, she wrote in the Social Democratic Press Service on topics such as the social situation of tenants and housing benefits (1982), pharmaceutical exports to the Third World (1984) and the situation of students from developing countries in the Federal Republic (1985).

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. 749.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Social Democratic Press Service of December 3, 1982 ( pdf ; 287 kB)
2. ↑ Social Democratic Press Service of August 23, 1984 ( pdf ; 199 kB)
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