Doris Schröder-Köpf Explained

Doris Schröder-Köpf
Birthname:Doris Köpf
Office1:Commissioner for Migration and Participation of Lower Saxony
Term Start1:16 April 2013
Predecessor1:Office established
Primeminister1:Stephan Weil
Office2:Member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony for Hannover-Döhren
Term Start2:15 October 2017
Predecessor2:Dirk Toepffer
Office3:Member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony
Term Start3:20 January 2013
Term End3:15 October 2017
Constituency3:Party-list proportional representation
Birth Date:5 August 1963
Birth Place:Neuburg an der Donau, West Germany
Residence:Hanover, Germany
Occupation:Journalist
Partner:Boris Pistorius (2016–2022)[1]
Children:3

Doris Schröder-Köpf (Köpf; born 5 August 1963) is a German journalist and politician. She was the fourth wife of former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Her articles have been published in newspapers and magazines including Bild and Focus.

Personal life

Köpf and partner Sven Kuntze moved to New York City in 1990, where they had a daughter named Klara in the following year. Soon after the birth the pair separated and Köpf moved back to Bavaria with the child. In October 1997, Köpf married Gerhard Schröder, then Minister-President of Lower Saxony. The couple adopted three year old Viktoria from Saint Petersburg in 2004, and a boy named Gregor in 2006.

They separated in March 2015, and divorced in January 2018.

Political career

In April 2013, Schröder-Köpf was elected as a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony for the Social Democratic Party (SPD), where she serves on the Committee on Internal Affairs and Sports as well as on its Sub-Committee on Media. In addition, she was appointed State Commissioner of Migration and Immigration issues for Lower Saxony in the state government of Minister-President Stephan Weil.

Other activities

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Notes and References

  1. News: 26 October 2016 . Schröder-Köpf und Minister Pistorius sind ein Paar . de . Schröder-Köpf and Minister Pistorius are a couple . .
  2. https://www.spd.de/partei/organisation/preise/ International Willy Brandt Prize