Karin Junker
Karin Renate Junker is a German politician and author. She was a Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2004, representing the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Life
Karin Junker was born on 24 December 1940, in Düsseldorf. She was politically active in the 1960s student movement, and became a journalist. In 1977 she unsuccessfully challenged Elfriede Hoffmann for the leadership of SPD's women's organization, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialdemokratischer Frauen.She entered the European Parliament in 1989. In 1992 she succeeded Inge Wettig-Danielmeier as chair of the ASF.
Papers relating to Junker are held at the Archives of Social Democracy at the Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn.