Uta Zapf

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Uta Zapf born Poetschke (born August 14, 1941 in Liegnitz , Silesia ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

From 1998 to 2013 she was chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1962, Uta Zapf studied German , English and literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . She then worked as a freelance editor and translator for publishers . Later she also worked as a lecturer in adult education.

Uta Zapf is married and has one child.

Political party

She joined the SPD in 1972 and has been chairwoman of the commission for international politics and peace at the SPD district executive for Hesse South since 1990 . From 1995 to 2001 she was also a member of the SPD state executive in Hesse and from 1999 to 2000 also the SPD party council.

Uta Zapf has been a member of the SPD district committee for Hessen Süd since 1983 and has been the deputy district chairwoman here since 1990. In 2003 it belonged to the co-founders of the forum Eine Welt of the SPD Hessen Süd. Since 2005 she has headed the migration working group of the Hessen Süd district association.

MPs

From 1985 to 1992 Uta Zapf was a member of Dreieich's city ​​council .

From 1990 to 2013 she was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1995 to 1998 she was the spokesperson for the working group on disarmament and arms control and also chairwoman of the Kurdish discussion group of the SPD parliamentary group .

From 1998 Uta Zapf was chairwoman of the subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag and also deputy spokeswoman for the parliamentary group's foreign policy working group . From 1998 to 2005 she was also a member of the SPD parliamentary group executive.

From 1998 Uta Zapf was chairman of the German- Belarusian parliamentary group , since 2002 deputy spokeswoman for the Hesse state group in the SPD parliamentary group, and a member of the International Crisis Group . From January 2003 she also headed the group discussion group on Southeast Europe .

Uta Zapf entered the Bundestag in 1998 and 2002 as a directly elected member of the Offenbach constituency and otherwise always through the state list of Hesse. She did not run for the 2013 federal election.

In 2015 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class .

Memberships

Zapf is a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag . She is a member of the European Leadership Network .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Successor to Zapf: four applicants for the Bundestag. In: fr-online.de. June 13, 2012, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  2. ↑ op-online.de

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personal data
SURNAME Zapf, Uta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz , Silesia