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Name
  
Barbara Duhrkop

Role
  
Spanish Politician

Education
  
Uppsala University


Barbara Duhrkop Duhrkop

Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop (born 27 July 1945, in Hanover) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). She was until 2009 a Member of the European Parliament, where she was a Vice-Chair of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets, as well as being a substitute on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Budgetary Control.

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Her husband Enrique Casas was assassinated by the Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas (CAA) in 1984.

Education

  • 1971: Graduate in humanities of the University of Uppsala (Sweden)
  • 1973: Language teacher in Hamburg

    • Career

  • 1974-1978: Deputy Chair of the Erlangen-Nürnberg University
  • 1978-1987: Language teacher at the Usandizaga Institute and the German School (San Sebastián)
  • 1995: Chair of the Board of the German School in San Sebastian
  • 1999: Member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Euskadi - Euskadiko Ezkerra
  • since 1987: Member of the European Parliament
  • 1989-1994: Socialist coordinator on the Committee on Culture and Education
  • 1994-1999: Vice-Chairwoman of the Committee on Budgets
  • 1995: Awarded the Mujer Progresista prize

    • Decorations

  • Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Republic of Austria

    • References

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