Ulla Schmidt

Infobox Minister
name = Ulla Schmidt


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office = Federal Minister of Health GER
term_start = January 12 2001
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predecessor = Andrea Fischer
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office2 = Federal Minister of Health and Social Security GER
term_start2 = October 22 2002
term_end2 = November 22 2005
predecessor2 = Walter Riester (Social Affairs)
successor2 = Franz Müntefering
(Social Affairs)
birth_date = Birth date and age|1949|6|13|mf=y
birth_place = Aachen, Germany
nationality = GER
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party = Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
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alma_mater = Teaching College of Aachen
profession = Teacher for Primary and General Schools
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website = [http://www.ulla-schmidt.de/ ulla-schmidt.de]
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Ursula ("Ulla") Schmidt (born June 13 1949 in Aachen) is a German politician. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 2001, she became Federal Minister for Health under Gerhard Schröder . A year later, the responsibility for social security was added to her portfolio and she was appointed Federal Minister for Health and Social Security . In November 2005 , she again became Federal Minister for Health in the Grand Coalition of Angela Merkel. Social security was reunited with the portfolio of labour, which in 2002 had been added to that of the Federal Minister for Economics.

Party memberships

In 1976 she was a candidate of the maoistic "Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland" (KBW) "(Communist League of West Germany)" for the Federal Assembly of Germany (Bundestag) in Aachen. The KBW dissolved completely in 1985.

In 1983 she changed to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). There she is a member of the local (Aachen) leadership and of the "Seeheimer Kreis".

Links

* Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland (wiki-de)
* Seeheimer Kreis (wiki-de)
* [http://www.ulla-schmidt.de/ Official Site of Ulla Schmidt]