Barbara Stolterfoht

Barbara Stolterfoht, née Steger (born 16 March 1940; died 20 February 2021 ), was a German politician (SPD) and Hessian State Minister for Women, Labour and Social Affairs from 1995 to 1999.

Career

Born in Dux, Reichsgau Sudetenland, Stolterfoht, grew up in Bielefeld and initially trained as an educator. She then completed her Abitur in 1963 on the second educational path. She studied economics, social sciences and political science in Göttingen and Paris, from 1965 in Berlin.

Stolterfoht later worked as a graduate political scientist at the German Institute of Urban Affairs and as deputy managing director at the Science Centre in Berlin, then as head of department at the Federal Centre for Health Education in Cologne and finally at the Federal Executive Committee of the SPD as health officer. In 1984, she became the first municipal Women's Representative in Kassel (until 1985). From 1985 to 1991, she was a full-time city councillor for women, health, social affairs and hospitals in Kassel. She died in February 2021 in Berlin at the age of 80.