Wilmya Zimmermann

Wilmya Zimmermann (born 30 July 1944) is a German politician who served in the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999.

Biography

Wilmya Zimmermann, who was born on 30 July 1944 in Heerlen, Netherlands,[1], attended secondary school and was trained as and later became an Medical Technician Assistant in a Heerlen hospital and the Radboud University Nijmegen.[1] In 1970 she moved to Germany to take up an employment at the University of Marburg.[1] She was later transferred into the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg.[1]

In 1986 Zimmermann joined the Public Services, Transport and Traffic Union.[1] She is a member of Europa-Union Deutschland[1]

Zimmerman was married at some point before 1999.[1]

Politics

In 1988 Zimmermann joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and she is the treasurer of the party's Bamberg-Forchheim division.[2]

She was elected to the European Parliament in 1994, and served as a member until 1999.[1] She worked on the committee with diplomatic relations with Romania and Bulgaria.[1] She was the first MEP to be elected in a country of which she did not have citizenship.[1]

gollark: You could just say that. It would probably be clearer.
gollark: Most of these things are in the Apiaristics Division building, not dedicated complexes, but still.
gollark: We have to manufacture messiahs *somewhere* and it's really rather hard without a centralized facility.
gollark: It *may* also have been retroactively self-causing.
gollark: I suspect it came from the human collective unconsciousness itself.

References
  1. https://web.archive.org/web/19991014030446/http://www.europarl.de:80/mdep/zimmewi5.htm
  2. https://www.spd-bamberg.de/ub-vorsitzender/
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