13 Facts About Marieluise Beck

Marieluise Beck was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Marieluise Beck is a 1968 graduate of Quincy High School.

That year, Marieluise Beck went on a trip to Washington, DC, with Kelly and Gert Bastian to discuss the NATO Double-Track Decision.

Marieluise Beck again served as a Member of the German Bundestag in the following electoral term from 1987 to 1990.

Under chancellor Gerhard Schroder between 1998 and 2005, Marieluise Beck served as the government's Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration.

Since 2005, Marieluise Beck has been member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the German parliament, where she focuses as the spokesperson on Eastern European affairs for the Green Party's parliamentary group on matters concerning Russia, Belarus and Western Balkan countries.

Marieluise Beck serves as the chairperson of the German-Bosnian Parliamentary Friendship Group and as a member of the German-Ukrainian and German-South Caucasus Parliamentary Friendship Groups.

Between 2005 and 2009, Marieluise Beck served as a member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and as Deputy chairwoman of the German-Belarusian Parliamentary Friendship Group.

In 2012, Marieluise Beck became a member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where she has since served on the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.

In October 2014, Marieluise Beck joined a 36-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, led by British MP Christopher Chope, to observe the conduct of the early parliamentary elections in Ukraine.

In September 2015, amid the European migrant crisis, Marieluise Beck joined Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel on a trip to the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan to learn more about the plight of Syrians fleeing the violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011.

In 2017, Marieluise Beck co-founded the Zentrum Liberale Moderne, a think-tank focusing on defending the open society and liberal democracy against anti-liberal revolt in Germany, European Union and abroad.

Since 2018, Marieluise Beck has been a member of the so-called Limbach Commission, a panel convened by the German government to give recommendations on restitution claims regarding art works stolen or purchased under duress by the Nazis.