Marlies Deneke was born on Marlies Kilian: 23 December 1953 and is a German politician.
11 Facts About Marlies Deneke
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Marlies Deneke sat as a member of the East German national parliament between March and October 1990, and then of the post-reunification Bundestag.
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Marlies Deneke attended secondary school between 1960 and 1970, like most contemporaries becoming a member, in 1967, of the Free German Youth organisation, which was in effect the youth wing of the ruling SED.
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Marlies Deneke joined the Trades Union Federation in 1970, undertaking an apprenticeship in merchandising between 1970 and 1972.
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Marlies Deneke then took a job locally with the East German Trade Organisation which was concerned with the provision of daily necessities in Magdeburg.
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Marlies Deneke was promoted to the position of "Deputy Operations Director" in 1977.
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On 9 December 1989 Marlies Deneke was elected to the executive committee and the presidium of the newly launched Party of Democratic Socialism.
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The PDS won only 66 of the 400 seats in the new "Volkskammer", but Marlies Deneke's name was nevertheless high enough up on the party list to ensure her inclusion.
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Marlies Deneke was one of the 24 PDS members who transferred across to the new Bundestag in October 1990 under the terms of the unification treaty concluded the previous month.
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Marlies Deneke was re-elected to the PDS deputy chairmanship in January 1991 retaining both the position and a high party profile till December 1991.
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Marlies Deneke continued to undertake support work for the PDS group in the Bundestag for some time, but she resigned from the party in 2002.