Marliese Dobberthien

Marliese Dobberthien (born May 22, 1947 in Lübeck ; † April 4, 2017 ) was a German politician of the SPD .

After graduating from high school in 1966, she received a scholarship from the Protestant Studienwerk Villigst to study social science , political science and educational science at the Ruhr University in Bochum and at the University of Hamburg . Study stays abroad took her to France, Brazil and Israel. She did her doctorate in legal sociology at the University of Hamburg. She was a lecturer at the University of Hamburg and from 1976 to 1988 she was department head at the German Trade Union Confederation - DGB in Stuttgart. She was also a broadcasting adviser at Süddeutscher Rundfunk and a member of the administrative committee of the Baden-Württemberg state labor office . For many years she was a member of the board of the Baden-Württemberg consumer advice center. She was chairwoman of the Baden-Württemberg media advisory council of the SPD and on the board of the regional women's council .

In 1972 she joined the SPD. In 1987/88 she was a member of the German Bundestag . She represented the Göppingen constituency of Baden-Wuerttemberg through the state list and worked primarily on the budget committee. In 1988 she became State Councilor in the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and headed the “Control Center for Equal Opportunities for Women”. During her term of office, the first nationwide law on equality for women in the public service was passed .

From 1990 to 1998 she was again a member of the Bundestag . She represented the regained constituency of Hamburg-Altona . Her work focused on women's and environmental policy as well as genetic engineering. From 1996 to 2008 she was the chairwoman of the consumer center in Hamburg, and since 2008 she has been a broadcasting adviser at Norddeutscher Rundfunk . She traveled abroad to China, Russia, North Korea, South Africa and South America, among others. She has authored numerous publications on women's, media and trade union politics.

Since 1998 she has been running a small horse breeding program for Trakehners and Isabellen at the Altmarkhof stud in Abbendorf .

literature

• Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament - Southwest German delegates since 1919. Published by the State Center for Civic Education, Theiss-Verlag Stuttgart, 1992. ISBN 3-8062-1012-8
• Ilse Lenz : 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

• Biography at the German Bundestag