(1949-12-06) 6 December 1949 (age 71) Merka, Saxony, East Germany
Nationality
Germany
Maria Ludwiga Michalk (born 6 December 1949) is a German politician. She was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 1994 and from 2002 to 2017 as a member of the Christian Democratic Union party.[1]
Biography[]
She was born in Merka in Radibor municipality and attended the local Sorbianhigh school. She trained as an industrial clerk and then studied business economics at a technical college.[1]
She became a member of the East German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 1972. In 1990, she was named to the CDU district council for Bautzen district. In 1990, she was elected to the Volkskammer. She was subsequently elected to the Bundestag later that year.[1] After leaving the Bundestag in 1994, she managed an education centre in Bischofswerda for seven years. In 2002, she was elected to the Bundestag again.[2] In 2016, she announced that she would not run for reelection to the Bundestag in 2017.[3]
Speaker: , , until 26 January 1988; , , until 30 January 1989, , Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin, Antje Vollmer until 15 January 1990; , (until 21 June 1990), Marianne Birthler (from 4 October 1990), Antje Vollmer