Christine Lucyga (born 6 April 1944) is a German politician of the

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(SPD) and former member of the

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(March–October 1990) and the

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(1990–2005). Lucyga was born in Kolberg,

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(today Kołobrzeg,

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) and grew up in

Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, c ...

, East Germany after her hometown became part of Poland after World War II. She studied Slavonic and

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at the

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and made her doctorate on literature of

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in 1980. Between 1969 and 1989 she worked as a teacher of foreign languages at the nautical school at

Warnemünde (, literally ''Mouth of the Warnow'') is a seaside resort and a district of the city of Rostock in Mecklenburg, Germany. It is located on the Baltic Sea and, as the name implies, at the estuary of the river Warnow. is one of the world's busie ...

and the Rostock University. In September 1989 Lucyga joined the opposition party

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and in late 1989 the

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. She was elected as the

delegate of Rostock in the first free election in East Germany in March 1990 and became a member of the German Bundestag after the reunification of Germany in October 1990. Lucyga was reelected in 1994, 1998, 2002 and abandoned to candidate in 2005.

Sources

biography on Bundestag.de
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