Ulrike Gottschalck (born 8 November 1955) is a German politician who served as a member of the

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from 2009 to 2017. Born in

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, she completed secondary school in 1970, and after training in

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, she became an IT consultant from 1984 to 1996. She is married and has three children. Gottschalck was first active politically with the

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(SPD) upon joining the party in 1974. From 1999 to 2005, she served as a parliamentary manager for SPD, and in 2005 she was elected to the state parliament of

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. After serving for four years, she was elected in 2009 to the

with 38% of the vote in the Kassel constituency, after originally being a last-second replacement for another SPD candidate who withdrew. During her first term, she served on the Committee for Transport, Building and Urban Development. Gottschalck was re-elected in 2013 with 40% of the vote. During her time in the Bundestag, she served as a member of the Budget Committee, and a deputy member of the Committee on Family, Seniors, Women and Youth. Gottschalck chose not to seek a third term, and retired at the end of the 18th Bundestag.

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