Bettina Bähr-Losse (born 28 January 1967) is a German lawyer and politician ( SPD). From 1 October 2016 until the end of the 2017 legislative period, she was a member of the

Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the lower house of the Germany, German Federalism in Germany, federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag wa ...

Early life and career

Bettina Bähr-Losse was born in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( ; from Low German , local dialect: ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

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

Regensburg Regensburg (historically known in English as Ratisbon) is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the rivers Danube, Naab and Regen (river), Regen, Danube's northernmost point. It is the capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the ...

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and

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

. 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 Steyler missionaries, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The missionaries estab ...

with

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as a focal point of her law practice.Bettina Bähr-Losse, SPD
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Political career

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

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

. In the Federal election 2013 she ran in Rhein-Sieg-Kreis II, 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 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.

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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