Sabine Uecker

Sabine Uecker is a German chemical engineer and politician who served in the Volkskammer and the reunified Bundestag in 1990. A member of the Social [Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party], she represented the town of Teltow.

Biography

Sabine Uecker was born on 1 May 1943 in Potsdam, Brandenburg. Her parents were both teachers, and she grew up in East Germany. She received her Abitur in 1961, and began studying chemical engineering. A resident of the town of Teltow, she was the head of research and development at VEB Electronic Components Teltow in 1990.
In November 1989, Uecker co-founded a branch of the Social Democratic Party in Teltow. She was elected to the Volkskammer in the March 1990 [East German general election], the only free and fair parliamentary election in the country's history, representing the Potsdam District as a member of the SDP. She served in the Volkskammer until 2 October 1990, as Germany reunified the following day. Uecker immediately began serving in the Bundestag as a member of the reunified Social Democratic Party, sitting on the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs. She ran for re-election in the 1990 German federal election, but was defeated.
Uecker was also a member of the Teltow city council and the Potsdam-Mittelmark district council from 1990 until 1995. After leaving parliament, she became the head of the Brandenburg State Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Women; she held the position until her retirement in 2006.