Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop

Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop (born 27 July 1945, in Hanover) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). She was until 2009 a Member of the European Parliament, where she was a vice-chair of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets, as well as being a substitute on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Budgetary Control.

Bárbara Dührkop

Her husband Enrique Casas was assassinated by the Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas (CAA) in 1984.^[1]

Education

• 1971: Graduate in humanities of the University of Uppsala (Sweden)
• 1973: Language teacher in Hamburg

Career

• 1974-1978: Lecturer at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
• 1978-1987: Language teacher at the Usandizaga Institute and the German School (San Sebastián)
• 1995: Chair of the Board of the German School in San Sebastian
• 1999: Member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of Euskadi - Euskadiko Ezkerra
• since 1987: Member of the European Parliament
• 1989-1994: Socialist coordinator on the Committee on Culture and Education
• 1994-1999: Vice-chairwoman of the Committee on Budgets
• 1995: Awarded the Mujer Progresista prize

Decorations

• Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Republic of Austria

See also

• 2004 European Parliament election in Spain