1. Gert Weisskirchen then graduated from the College of Education in Heidelberg and Karlsruhe and further studied education, political science and economic and social history at the University of Heidelberg.
11 Facts About Gert Weisskirchen
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From 1969 to 1972 Gert Weisskirchen was a teacher at the Epping high school, and from 1972 to 1975 worked as scientific assistant at the Heidelberg College of Education.
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Gert Weisskirchen has been married since 1969 and has one daughter.
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Gert Weisskirchen joined the SPD in 1966 and became involved first with the Young Socialists; he was a member of the State Executive Committee in Baden-Wurttemberg from 1969 to 1972; from 1971 to 1972 as state chairman.
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From 1973 to 1991 Gert Weisskirchen was chairman of the SPD district association Rhein-Neckar and from 1973 to 1997 a member of the executive committee of the SPD in Baden-Wurttemberg.
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From November 1998 to October 2007 Gert Weisskirchen was on the board of the SPD parliamentary party and was from 1999 to 2009 speaker of the group working party on foreign policy.
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Gert Weisskirchen has always been a representative of Baden-Wurttemberg state in the Bundestag.
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From 1994 to 2009 Gert Weisskirchen was a member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, where from 1997 to 2002 he was Chairman of the Committee for Humanitarian Affairs and Human Rights.
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Gert Weisskirchen was then to 2005 Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly.
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From 2005 to 2008, Gert Weisskirchen was Personal Representative of the OSCE chairman on anti-Semitism.
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In 2009 Gert Weisskirchen did not run as a candidate for the Bundestag.