Rita Bake was born on 16 January 1952 and is a German economic and social historian.
11 Facts About Rita Bake
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Rita Bake has a degree in librarianship and is a prolific author.
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Rita Bake studied for a degree in librarianship at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.
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Rita Bake concluded this phase of her education with a doctorate.
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In 1990 Bake started working in a senior academic and administrative role at the Hamburg region "Agency for Civic Education".
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Rita Bake served between 2004 and the end of 2017 as deputy head of the agency.
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In 2000, with the active help of the historian-politician Silke Urbanski and of the journalist-politician Helga Diercks-Norden, Rita Bake founded the "Garden of Women" at Hamburg's Ohlsdorf Cemetery.
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Since 2000 Rita Bake has served as chair of the "Garden of Women Association".
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In 2012 Rita Bake developed Hamburg's first on-line databank of women's biographies.
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Rita Bake continues to feed the databank with additional biographical material.
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In 2009 Rita Bake was the winner of "Hammonia 2009", presented by the Hamburg region Women's Council in recognition of her feminist political commitment.