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Katarina Barley | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2013 | |
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| Born | 19 November 1968 Cologne, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality |  Germany |
| Political party | SPD |
| Alma mater | University of Marburg |
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Katarina Barley (born 19 November 1968) in Cologne) is a German lawyer, politician and member of German Bundestag. Her British last name comes from her father.
Education and early career[change | change source]
Barley has a doctoral degree in law from the University of Marburg. After she graduated, she worked as a lawyer, before being elected to Parliament in 2013.[1]
Political career[change | change source]
In her parliamentary work, Barley represents Trier for Germany's Social Democratic Party.
She serves on the Committee on the Election of Judges. It is responsible for appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. In addition, she is a member of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group, due to her British ancestry.
In 2015 Barley was suggested to succeed Yasmin Fahimi in the role of general secretary of the SPD, one of the party's leading positions.[2] Afterwards she was elected to this position in December 2015.[3]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Biography on Bundestag website
- ↑ Gabriels Kandidatin: Katarina Barley soll neue SPD-Generalsekretärin werden, in: spiegel.de (1. November 2015).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de. Die Frau, die Gabriel mäßigen soll
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