14 Facts About Edelgard Bulmahn

Edelgard Bulmahn was born on 4 March 1951 and is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Edelgard Bulmahn served as Member of the German Bundestag between 1987 and 2017.

Edelgard Bulmahn was Federal Minister of Education and Research from 1998 to 2005.

Edelgard Bulmahn later studied political science and English language and literature at the Leibniz University Hannover.

Edelgard Bulmahn joined the SPD in 1969 and was a member of the party executive committee from 1993 to 2011.

Edelgard Bulmahn entered the German Bundestag following the 1987 federal elections, representing the 42nd electoral district of Hannover.

From 2005 to 2009, Edelgard Bulmahn served as chairwoman of the Bundestag Committee for Economic Affairs and Technology.

From 2009 to 2013, Edelgard Bulmahn was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and spokeswoman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Sub-Committee on Civilian Crisis Prevention and Integrated Conflict Management.

Edelgard Bulmahn's tenure fell in a period of significant changes in Germany's education system.

When Edelgard Bulmahn first proposed in 2004 an initiative to foster an elite circle of universities with significant funds from the federal government, she drew heavy criticism; however, after lengthy negotiations with the state governments, a compromise was finally reached in June 2005.

On 22 October 2013, Edelgard Bulmahn was elected as one of the Vice Presidents of the Bundestag.

Edelgard Bulmahn served as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs as well as of the Sub-Committee for Civilian Crisis Prevention.

In October 2016, Edelgard Bulmahn announced that she would not stand in the 2017 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.

In 2016, Edelgard Bulmahn demanded that a financial bonus be paid to universities for every graduate student they attract.