Gabriele Wülker (16 July 1911 – 10 October 2001), was a

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and

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. She was the State Secretary (senior civil servant) of the

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from 1957 to 1959. She was the first of her gender in this position of her

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Works

* 1941 : ''Bauerntum am Rande der Großstadt. II. Bevölkerungs- und Wirtschaftswachstum im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Hainholz, Vahrenwald und List bei Hannover)'', Leipzig, S. Hirzel. * 1952 : with Werner Möhring, ''Europa und die deutschen Flüchtlinge''. * 1953 : ''Probleme der soziologischen Einordnung fremder ethnischer Gruppen in die deutsche Bundesrepublik'', Cologne. * 1962 : ''In Asien und Afrika'', Kreuz-Verlag. * 1966 : ''Togo - Tradition und Entwicklung'', Klett Verlag. 1911 births 2001 deaths German social scientists 20th-century German civil servants Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany State Secretaries of Germany {{Germany-politician-stub