Ursula Pistorius Explained

Office1:Member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony
Term Start1:21 June 1978
Term End1:20 June 1990
Office2:Member of the City Council of Osnabrück
Term Start2:1972
Term End2:1996
Birth Name:Ursula Raabe
Birth Date:18 January 1933
Birth Place:Frankfurt (Oder), German Reich
Party:Social Democratic Party
Constituency1:Osnarbrück-East

Ursula Pistorius (née Raabe; born 18 January 1933, in Frankfurt (Oder); died 4 September 2015, in Osnabrück) was a German politician (SPD) and a Member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony.[1]

Early life and education

Pistorius first went to grade school and later to a secondary school and a comprehensive school until 1949.[2] In that same year her family moved to West Germany. In 1952 she got her Abitur at the catholic girls school in Osnabrück.

She worked in a publishing company since 1952 and joined the Trade, Banking and Insurance Union in 1953. She quit her job after giving birth to her first son in 1956.

Political career

Ursula Pistorius became a member of the SPD in 1970. She was on the City Council of Osnarbrück from 1972 to 1996. She was a member of various committees during her tenure[3]

She represented the Constituency Osnarbrück-East from the 9th to the 11th legislative period of the Landtag of Lower Saxony. She won her constituency directly (Direktmandat) in the elections of, and respectively. She was deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentry caucus in the Landtag from 21 June 1986, to 20 June 1990.[4]

Personal life

She married Ludwig Pistorius (1923–2009) with whom she had three sons born in 1956, 1960 and 1962 respectively. She quit her job after giving birth to her first son.[5] Pistorius' second son is Boris Pistorius, a SPD-politician who was lord mayor of Osnarbrück and is the current Federal Minister of Defence since 19 January 2023.[6]

After her retirement she started a (senior studies) and travelled through eastern Europe. In 2015 she died at the age of 82 following a short, heavy illness.[7]

Notes

  1. News: Alle Infos & News zu Boris Pistorius . 2023-07-03 . rtl.de . de.
  2. Web site: 2023-01-17. Ulrike Schmidt. 9 September 2015. Zum Tod der Osnabrücker Politikerin Ursula Pistorius. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.
  3. Web site: 20 January 2023 . Traueranzeigen von Ursula Pistorius noz Trauerportal . 2023-07-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230120113351/https://traueranzeigen.noz.de/Traueranzeige/Ursula-Pistorius . 2023-01-20 .
  4. News: 13 June 2023 . Video: Das ist der Bundesverteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius (SPD) . 2023-07-03 . Saarbrücker Zeitung . de.
  5. Web site: 2023-01-17. Ulrike Schmidt. 9 September 2015. Zum Tod der Osnabrücker Politikerin Ursula Pistorius. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.
  6. Web site: Stichwahlergebnis . 2023-07-03 . www.nls.niedersachsen.de.
  7. News: 2023-01-17. Ulrike . Schmidt. 9 September 2015. Zum Tod der Osnabrücker Politikerin Ursula Pistorius. On the death of Osnabrück politician Ursula Pistorius . de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.

Literature

References

  1. News: Alle Infos & News zu Boris Pistorius . 2023-07-03 . rtl.de . de.
  2. Web site: 2023-01-17. Ulrike Schmidt. 9 September 2015. Zum Tod der Osnabrücker Politikerin Ursula Pistorius. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.
  3. Web site: 20 January 2023 . Traueranzeigen von Ursula Pistorius noz Trauerportal . 2023-07-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230120113351/https://traueranzeigen.noz.de/Traueranzeige/Ursula-Pistorius . 2023-01-20 .
  4. News: 13 June 2023 . Video: Das ist der Bundesverteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius (SPD) . 2023-07-03 . Saarbrücker Zeitung . de.
  5. Web site: 2023-01-17. Ulrike Schmidt. 9 September 2015. Zum Tod der Osnabrücker Politikerin Ursula Pistorius. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.
  6. Web site: Stichwahlergebnis . 2023-07-03 . www.nls.niedersachsen.de.
  7. News: 2023-01-17. Ulrike . Schmidt. 9 September 2015. Zum Tod der Osnabrücker Politikerin Ursula Pistorius. On the death of Osnabrück politician Ursula Pistorius . de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.

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