Edelgard Bulmahn
| Edelgard Bulmahn | |
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| Vice-President of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 22 October 2013 |
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| President | Norbert Lammert |
| Preceded by | Wolfgang Thierse |
Federal Minister of Education and Research Germany
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In office 26 October 1998 – 22 November 2005 |
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| Chancellor | Gerhard Schröder |
| Preceded by | Jürgen Rüttgers |
| Succeeded by | Annette Schavan |
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4 March 1951 Petershagen, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Hanover |
Edelgard Bulmahn (born 4 March 1951 in Petershagen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Bulmahn entered the German Bundestag after the 1987 elections. She was Federal Minister of Education and Research from 1998 to 2005. On 22 October 2013 she was elected as one of the Vice Presidents of the Bundestag.
After gaining her Abitur (higher-education entrance qualification), Bulmahn spent one year living in the Bror Hayil kibbutz in southern Israel. She later studied political science and English language and literature at the University of Hanover. From 1981 to 1987 she worked as a school teacher in Hanover.
Bulmahn joined the SPD in 1969 and was a member of the party executive committee from 1993 to 2011.
Bulmahn entered the German Bundestag following the 1987 federal elections, representing the 42nd electoral district of Hannover. From 1987 to 1990 she served as deputy chairwoman of the Bundestag’s Study Commission on Technology Assessment and from 1990 to 1994 as deputy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group on the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment.
From 2005 to 2009, Bulmahn served as chairwoman of the Bundestag Committee for Economic Affairs and Technology. During that time, she was also the deputy chairwoman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States in the Middle East, which is in charge of maintaining inter-parliamentary relations with Bahrain, Irak, Yemen, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and the Palestinian territories.
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