Karla Staszak

Karla Staszak (born July 3, 1941 in Leipzig ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

Staszak began her professional career by training as a bookseller in Leipzig. She studied German, Latin and history in Greifswald and Rostock and then worked as a bookseller, educator and teacher. She practiced the latter from 1981 to 1990 at the Medical School in Rostock in the subject of German as a foreign language. From 1990 to 1994 she was the equal opportunities officer of the Rostock city administration. In 1994 and 1998 she was directly elected to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the Hanseatic city of Rostock. After her election to the state parliament, in 1994 she became the state government's first women and equality commissioner with the rank of parliamentary state secretary. In 2002 she resigned from this office after she had renounced a new candidacy for the state parliament.

From 1990 to 1993, Staszak was the federal spokesperson for the municipal equal opportunities commissioner. From 1994 to 2002 she was a member of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament .

Staszak is married and has three children.

See also

• Cabinet page II
• Cabinet Ringstorff I

Web links

http://www.landtag-mv.de/landtag/03abtrete/spd/staszak.htm ( Memento from September 20, 2002 in the Internet Archive )