Antje Vollmer

Antje Vollmer
Vice President of the Bundestag
In office
1994–2005
President Wolfgang Thierse
Personal details
Born (1943-05-31) 31 May 1943
Lübbecke,
West Germany
Nationality German
Political party Alliance '90/The Greens
Profession Politician, Theologian

Antje Vollmer (born May 31, 1943) is a German politician of the German Green Party. From 1994 to 2005, she was one of the vice presidents of the German parliament, the Bundestag.

Education and early career

Vollmer was born in Lübbecke (Westphalia) and studied theology. From 1971 to 1974 she worked as a pastor in Berlin-Wedding, later as a teacher in an adult education center.

Political career

In 1985 Vollmer joined the Green Party, even though she already had been in the Bundestag since 1983 for that party. Due to the party principle of rotation she had to give up the parliamentary seat in 1985, but was reelected in 1987 and again in 1994, 1998 and 2002.

Vollmer was the first politician of the Green Party to be elected into the Presidium of the Bundestag, in 1994. She remained vice president of the Bundestag until the 2005 elections, when she did not run for re-election.

Life after politics

In 2009 Vollmer was awarded the Mercator Visiting Professorship for Political Management at the Universität Essen-Duisburg's NRW School of Governance. She gave both seminars and lectures at the university.[1]

Other activities

  • Opera Village Africa, Member of the Board of Trustees[2]
  • Petersburger Dialog, Member
  • Jewish Museum Berlin, Member of the Board of Trustees (2002-2005)
  • Federal Cultural Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees (2002-2005)
  • Heinz Galinski Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees (1998-2005)
  • Deutsche Nationalstiftung, Member of the Board of Trustees (1998-2002)
  • Theodor Heuss Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees (1998-2002)

Recognition

References

  1. ↑ "Pressemitteilung der Universität Duisburg-Essen". www.uni-due.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  2. ↑ Board of Trustees Opera Village Africa.

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