Ulla Schmidt

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Ulla Schmidt : biography

June 13, 1949 –

Ursula (Ulla) Schmidt (born June 13, 1949 in Aachen) is a German politician. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Cabinet positions

In 2001, she became Federal Minister for Health under Gerhard Schröder. A year later, the responsibility for social security was added to her portfolio and she was appointed Federal Minister for Health and Social Security.

In November 2005, she again became Federal Minister for Health in the grand coalition of Angela Merkel. Social security was reunited with the portfolio of labour, which in 2002 had been added to that of the Federal Minister for Economics.

In 2009, she criticized statements made by Pope Benedict XVI, who claimed that condom usage promoted AIDS.

Party memberships

In 1976 she was a candidate of the Maoist "Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland" (KBW) (Communist League of West Germany) for the Federal Assembly of Germany (Bundestag) in Aachen. The KBW dissolved completely in 1985.

In 1983 she changed to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). There she is a member of the local (Aachen) leadership and of the "Seeheimer Kreis".