Gabriele Bischoff

Gabriele Bischoff (born 4 January 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who is serving as a Member of the European Parliament.[1]

Gabriele Bischoff

MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Personal details
Born (1961-01-04) January 4, 1961
Bad Wildungen, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political party German:
Social Democratic Party
 EU:
Party of European Socialists
Alma mater

Early life and education

Bischoff graduated from König-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Fritzlar in 1980. She then began studying political science and American studies at the University of Marburg, then moved to the Free University of Berlin, where she graduated with a diploma in political science.

Career

From 1991 until 2000, Bischoff worked at Germany's largest trade union, IG Metall, on gender equality issues. In that capacity, she represented IG Metall in the relevant working groups of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).

From 2000 to 2005, Bischoff worked as an advisor on social affairs at the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU in Brussels before moving to the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) in Berlin as special advisor from 2006 to 2008.

From 2008 Bischoff worked for the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) in Berlin, where she led the trade union's work on European policies. In that capacity, she was a member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels from 2009 until 2019. During her tenure, she served as president of the employees' group from 2015.

Political career

Bischoff has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. She has since been serving on the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. In addition to her committee assignments, she is part of the Parliament's delegation for relations with Mercosur. She is also a member of the Working Group on the Conference on the Future of Europe.

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References
  1. "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.


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