Karin Junker

Karin Junker
Karin Junker

Member of the European Parliament
In office 1989–2004

Personal details
Born	(1940-12-24)December 24, 1940 Düsseldorf
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Occupation	Politician Author

Karin Renate Junker (born 1940) is a German politician and author. She was a Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2004, representing the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Life

Karin Junker was born on December 24, 1940, in Düsseldorf.^[1] She was politically active in the 1960s student movement, and became a journalist. In 1977 she unsuccessfully challenged Elfriede Hoffmann for the leadership of SPD's women's organization, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialdemokratischer Frauen (ASF).^[4]

She entered the European Parliament in 1989.^[1] In 1992 she succeeded Inge Wettig-Danielmeier as chair of the ASF.^[5]

Papers relating to Junker are held at the Archives of Social Democracy at the Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn.^[6]

Works

Frauen und Bildung [Women and Education]. Bonn: Ministry of Education, Science and Research, 1976?
Das Ausbildungsplatzförderungsgesetz [The Training Place Promotion Act]. Bonn: Ministry of Education, Science and Research, 1977?
Kinder [Children]. Bonn: Press and Information Office of the Federal Government of Germany, 1979
Selbstbewusst, Selbstbestimmt: Frauen in Europa [Self-assured, Self-determined: Women in Europe]. Bonn, 1994

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Karin JUNKER: 3rd parliamentary term". European Parliament. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
^ "Karin JUNKER: 4th parliamentary term". European Parliament. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
^ "Karin JUNKER: 5th parliamentary term". European Parliament. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
^ Braunthal, Gerard (2019). The German Social Democrats Since 1969: A Party In Power And Opposition. Routledge. p. 182.
^ Potthoff, Heinrich; Miller, Susanne (2006). The Social Democratic Party of Germany, 1848-2005. Dietz. p. 342.
^ Cook, Chris (2012). The Routledge Guide to European Political Archives: Sources Since 1945. Routledge. p. 92.

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