Bettina Bähr-Losse (born 28 January 1967) is a German lawyer and politician (

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the ...

). From 1 October 2016 until the end of the 2017 legislative period, she was a member of the

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Early life and career

Bettina Bähr-Losse was born in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the Nor ...

, where she obtained her early education at the Jugenddorf-Christophorusschule Braunschweig. She went on to study law at the universities in

Regensburg Regensburg or is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state in the south of Germany. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the f ...

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

and

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

. After the legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne she is a lawyer in

Sankt Augustin Sankt Augustin ( Ripuarian: ''Sank Aujustin'') is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is named after the patron saint of the Divine Word Missionaries, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The Missionaries esta ...

with

family law Family law (also called matrimonial law or the law of domestic relations) is an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations. Overview Subjects that commonly fall under a nation's body of family law include: * Marriage, ...

as a focal point of her law practice.Bettina Bähr-Losse, SPD
bundestag.de

Political career

Bähr-Losse is deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group in the district council of

Rhein-Sieg-Kreis The Rhein-Sieg-Kreis ( ksh, Rhein-Siech-Kreis) is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Oberbergischer Kreis, Altenkirchen, Neuwied, Ahrweiler, Euskirchen, ...

. In the Federal election 2013 she ran in

Rhein-Sieg-Kreis II Rhein-Sieg-Kreis II is an electoral constituency (German: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 98. It i ...

, but won no mandate. Since she was second of the SPD party list in North Rhine-Westphalia for the 18th Bundestag, she replaced

Peer Steinbrück Peer Steinbrück (born 10 January 1947) is a German politician who was the Chancellor-candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the 2013 federal election. Steinbrück served as the eighth Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia f ...

on 1 October 2016 in the Bundestag.Steinbrück gibt sein Mandat ab
nrz.de However, at the federal election 2017 she was again unable to win a mandate.

References

External links

Bettina Bähr-Losse at the SPD Rhein-Sieg

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bahr-Losse, Bettina Female members of the Bundestag Living people 1967 births Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia Politicians from Braunschweig Members of the Bundestag 2013–2017 Members of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany 21st-century German women politicians