Christa Lörcher

Christa Gisela Lörcher (, 24 June 1941, in Mewe) is a former German politician. She was a member of the Bundestag from 1993 to 2002.

Life

Lörcher was born in Mewe, Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, Nazi Germany. She graduated from high school in 1959 and studied at the University of Tübingen and at the Esslingen University of Education, graduating as a primary and secondary school teacher. She then became a secondary school teacher for mathematics and physics. She received a scholarship from the Volkswagenwerk Foundation for mathematics projects in England, the US and Sweden. She then completed practical vocational training as a geriatric nurse.

Lörcher worked as a math and physics teacher in various types of schools and collaborated on the Kahle/Lörcher mathematics work for secondary schools. She worked as a geriatric nurse in retirement and nursing homes and in geriatric psychiatry. From 1988, she was a teaching nurse for geriatric and nursing care.

Lörcher was initially a member of the GEW, then the ÖTV union. She worked for the Kinderschutzbund, Arbeiterwohlfahrt and Friends of Nature. Lörcher received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 2022. Prior to this, she resigned from the SPD parliamentary group and was a member of the Bundestag for the remainder of the legislative period as a non-attached Member of Parliament. Lörcher was honored in 2002 with the Clara Immerwahr Award, the Peace Prize of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).