Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop

Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop (born 27 July 1945, in Hanover) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). She was until 2009 a Member of the European Parliament, where she was a vice-chair of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets, as well as being a substitute on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Budgetary Control.

Her husband Enrique Casas was assassinated by the Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas (CAA) in 1984.

Education

 * 1971: Graduate in humanities of the University of Uppsala (Sweden)
 * 1973: Language teacher in Hamburg

Career

 * 1974-1978: Lecturer at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
 * 1978-1987: Language teacher at the Usandizaga Institute and the German School (San Sebastián)
 * 1995: Chair of the Board of the German School in San Sebastian
 * 1999: Member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of Euskadi - Euskadiko Ezkerra
 * since 1987: Member of the European Parliament
 * 1989-1994: Socialist coordinator on the Committee on Culture and Education
 * 1994-1999: Vice-chairwoman of the Committee on Budgets
 * 1995: Awarded the Mujer Progresista prize

Decorations

 * Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Republic of Austria