1. Ursula Lehr nee Leipold was a German academic, age researcher and politician.
17 Facts About Ursula Lehr
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Ursula Lehr was the first professor of gerontology in Germany, with a chair at the University of Heidelberg from 1986.
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Ursula Lehr served as federal minister of youth, family, women and health from 1988 to 1991.
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Ursula Lehr was a member of the Bundestag from 1990 to 1994.
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Ursula Lehr obtained the Abitur at a gymnasium for girls in Offenbach am Main.
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Ursula Lehr began studies of German studies, art history and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt.
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Ursula Lehr began her academic career in 1955 as a research assistant at the University of Bonn.
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Ursula Lehr was called to the University of Cologne in 1972, in the faculty of pedagogy and pedagogic psychology, where she was director of the pedagogical seminar.
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Ursula Lehr returned to Bonn in 1976, to the new faculty of developmental psychology.
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Ursula Lehr was an advisor to Lothar Spath, then minister-president of Baden-Wurttemberg, who initiated that she was called to the first chair of gerontology in Germany, at the University of Heidelberg.
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Ursula Lehr resigned in December 1990 due to harsh criticism.
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Ursula Lehr served in the Bundestag from 1990 to 1994.
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Ursula Lehr served as the chair of the German society of gerontology and geriatrics from 1997 to 1998.
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Ursula Lehr was elected the head of the German National Association of Senior Citizens' Organizations in 2009, was reelected to the post in 2012 for three more years, and served as vice-president for the following period.
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Ursula Lehr was married twice; both marriages ended with the death of her husband.
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Ursula Lehr received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Order of Merit of Baden-Wurttemberg, among others.
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Ursula Lehr held honorary doctorates of the University of Fribourg and the University of Vechta.