Katharina Focke
Katharina Focke | |
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![]() Katharina Focke (1975) | |
Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health | |
In office 15 December 1972 – 14 December 1976 | |
Preceded by | Käte Strobel |
Succeeded by | Antje Huber |
Personal details | |
Born | Bonn, Germany | 8 October 1922
Died | 10 July 2016 Cologne, Germany | (aged 93)
Political party | Social Democratic Party (SPD) |
Katharina Focke (8 October 1922 – 10 July 2016) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 1972 to 1976.
Biography[edit]
Focke studied Economics at the University of Zürich and studied English, German, and History at the University of Hamburg. She studied political science at the University of Oklahoma and received a Ph.D. in 1954.[1] She joined the Social Democrats in 1964 and was elected two years later to the Düsseldorf parliament. She was elected to the Bundestag in 1969. Chancellor Willy Brandt selected her to be the Parliamentary Secretary to the Chancellery, where she also dealt with European issues.[2]
In 1972 Focke was put in charge of the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family and Health, a position she held for four years. In the Bundestag, she served from 1969 to 1980. From 1980 until 1989 Focke served at the European Parliament. She lived in Cologne after her retirement and died on 10 July 2016, aged 93.[2][3]
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- Jochen van Aerssen
- Siegbert Alber
- Otto Bardong
- Philipp von Bismarck
- Erik Bernhard Blumenfeld
- Ursula Braun-Moser
- Elmar Brok
- Manfred Ebel
- Otmar Franz
- Isidor Früh
- Wilhelm Hahn
- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann
- Egon Klepsch
- Horst Langes
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- Kurt Malangré
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- Gabriele Peus
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- Hans Poetschki
- Hans-Gert Pöttering
- Renate-Charlotte Rabbethge
- Günter Rinsche
- Bernhard Sälzer
- Konrad Schön
- Leopold Späth
- Kurt Wawrzik
- Rudolf Wedekind
- Karl von Wogau
- Hans-Jürgen Zahorka
- Axel Zarges
- Rudi Arndt
- Jürgen Brinckmeier
- Ludwig Fellermaier
- Katharina Focke
- Bruno Friedrich
- Fritz Gautier
- Klaus Hänsch
- Magdalene Hoff
- Jan Klinkenborg
- Rolf Linkohr
- Karl-Heinrich Mihr
- Hans Peters
- Dieter Rogalla
- Mechtild Rothe
- Willi Rothley
- Jannis Sakellariou
- Heinke Salisch
- Dieter Schinzel
- Gerhard Schmid
- Heinz Schreiber
- Horst Seefeld
- Hans-Joachim Seeler
- Lieselotte Seibel-Emmerling
- Barbara Simons
- Günter Topmann
- Heinz Vetter
- Kurt Vittinghoff
- Thomas von der Vring
- Manfred Wagner
- Gerd Walter
- Beate Weber
- Klaus Wettig
- Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul