Waltraud Schoppe

Waltraud Schoppe b. Sobanek (born June 27, 1942 in Bremen-Aumund ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 1990 to 1994 she was Minister for Women of the State of Lower Saxony .

Life and accomplishments

education and profession

After graduating from high school , Waltraud Schoppe studied German and history for a higher teaching post . From 1985 to 1987 she was a research assistant in the Green parliamentary group. Schoppe is married and has two children.

politics

Schoppe was one of the founding members of the Green Party . She became a member of the German Bundestag for the first time in 1983 and thus belonged to the first Green parliamentary group in the Bundestag . From 1984 to 1985 she was also one of the three spokespersons for her group. Due to the principle of rotation , she left the Bundestag on March 31, 1985. From 1987 to 1990 she belonged again to the German Bundestag and was spokeswoman for the Greens parliamentary group from 1987 to 1988 and 1990 until she left the Bundestag on June 21, 1990. From 1994 to 1998 she was a third time member of the German Bundestag.

In 1983, with her first speech in the Bundestag, in which she called for “punishment for rape in marriage”, she caused an upheaval in political society.

Public offices

From 1990 to 1994 she was Lower Saxony 's Minister for Women in the red-green coalition under Prime Minister Gerhard Schröder (see also Cabinet Schröder I (Lower Saxony) ). After the SPD won an absolute majority in the 1994 state elections , it resigned from this office.

Others

Waltraud Schoppe is a member of the German Film Prize jury for the screenplay .

literature

• 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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Plenary minutes of May 5th, 1983. German Bundestag - 10th electoral term, accessed December 23, 2017 .  (PDF)