1. Dagmar Enkelmann attended school in nearby Strausberg, passing her school leaving exams in 1974, which opened the way to a university level education.
14 Facts About Dagmar Enkelmann
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Dagmar Enkelmann emerged with an extensive knowledge of Marxist sociology and a degree in 1979.
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Dagmar Enkelmann joined the Socialist Unity Party in 1977.
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Dagmar Enkelmann served between 2003 and 2006 as deputy leader of the PDS.
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Dagmar Enkelmann was re-elected to the Bundestag, representing the Brandenburg electoral district, later in 1990, and again in 1994, leaving the Bundestag in 1998, still aged only 42.
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At the 2005 general election Dagmar Enkelmann returned to the National Parliament.
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Dagmar Enkelmann served as Parliamentary Party Manager for Die Linke between 2005 and 2013.
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In 2005 Dagmar Enkelmann was elected because her name was sufficiently high up on the regional PDS party list.
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Unlike von der Marwitz, Dagmar Enkelmann had rejected the idea of simultaneously having her name placed on her party list as insurance against not securing direct election in the Barnim constituency, and accordingly in 2013 she left the Bundestag for a second time.
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On 26 February 2010 Dagmar Enkelmann was one of a large number of PDS Bundestag members to be expelled from the chamber during a debate on prolonging German military involvement in Afghanistan.
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Since 1998 Dagmar Enkelmann has been a local council member for the municipality of Bernau bei Berlin, and in this capacity a member of the local development agency.
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Dagmar Enkelmann has, since November 2008, been an alternate for Jan Korte in the third board of parliamentary trustees of the "Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung", a federal agency mandated with helping Germany come to terms with the East German dictatorship.
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Dagmar Enkelmann married her longstanding life-partner, meteorologist Bernd Jaiser, in 2005.
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Dagmar Enkelmann has three recorded children, born in 1976,1981 and 1989.