Doris Schröder-Köpf

Doris Schröder-Köpf
Commissioner for Migration and Participation of Lower Saxony
Assumed office
16 April 2013
Prime Minister Stephan Weil
Preceded by Office established
Member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony
for Hannover-Döhren
Assumed office
15 October 2017
Preceded by Dirk Toepffer
Member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony
In office
20 January 2013 – 15 October 2017
Constituency Party-list proportional representation
Personal details
Born Doris Köpf
(1963-08-05) 5 August 1963
Neuburg an der Donau, West Germany
Spouse(s) Gerhard Schröder (1997–2016)
Domestic partner Boris Pistorius (2016–present)[1]
Children Klara Kuntze
Viktoria Schröder
Gregor Schröder
Residence Hanover, Germany
Occupation Journalist
With Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg, 2003.

Doris Schröder-Köpf (born 5 August 1963) is a German journalist and politician. She was the fourth wife of the former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Her articles have been published in newspapers and magazines including Bild and Focus.

Personal life

Köpf and partner Sven Kuntze moved to New York City in 1990, where they had a daughter named Klara in the following year. Soon after the birth the pair separated and Köpf moved back to Bavaria with the child. In 1997, Köpf married Gerhard Schröder, then Minister-President of Lower Saxony. The couple adopted three year old Viktoria from Saint Petersburg in 1994, and a boy named Gregor in 2006. They divorced in 2016.

Political career

In 2013 Schröder-Köpf was elected as a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony for the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She was appointed Director of Migration and Immigration issues for the Lower Saxony by new Minister-President Stephan Weil.

Other activities

  • International Willy Brandt Prize, Member of the Jury[2]
  • Niedersächsische Lotto-Sport-Stiftung, Member of the Board of Trustees

References

  1. ↑ "Schröder-Köpf und Minister Pistorius sind ein Paar" [Schröder-Köpf and Minister Pistorius are a couple]. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 26 October 2016.
  2. ↑ International Willy Brandt Prize Social Democratic Party of Germany.
  • "Doris Schröder-Köpf". FOCUS Magazin (in German). No. 16. 2002. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
  • "Die Frau im Kanzleramt" [The woman in the Chancellery] (in German). Zeit Online. Retrieved 2010-09-26.


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