Wilmya Zimmermann

German politician

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 a 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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Europäisches Parlament - Biographie des MdEP ZIMMERMANN, Wilmya". Oct 14, 1999. Archived from the original on 1999-10-14.
^ Bamberg-Forchheim, SPD-Unterbezirk. "Seite nicht gefunden - SPD Unterbezirk Bamberg-Forchheim". www.spd-bamberg.de.