Ingrid Stahmer

Ingrid Stahmer (born Ingrid Ulrici: 16 September 1942 – 30 August 2020) was a German politician (SPD). She briefly served as vice mayor of Berlin. Two years later she withdrew from politics and embarked on a career as an "organisation and process consultant" also identified as a "group dynamicist" ("Gruppendynamikerin").

Life Ingrid Ulrici was born in Mittersill, a small town some distance upriver from Salzburg and far from her mother's Berlin home. The remote location of her birth resulted from the disruption caused by the war. Her father was killed in the war and she returned with her mother to Berlin where, in 1946, her mother remarried. As the senator responsible for the department in which Stahmer was employed, Reichel-Koß was able to encourage Stahmer to take greater political responsibility. The campaigning approach of both contenders for the backing of party colleagues in the party poll was at times strangely consensual. In the event it was Ingrid Stahmer who won what amounted to the party nomination for the post of governing mayor. However, the political mood reflected in the local elections that followed continued to favour the CDU.

The local elections of October 1995 produced a disappointing result for the SPD in Berlin, but a "Grand coalition" of the CDU and the SPD continued to run the local administration. Stahmer's portfolio changed: between 1995 and 1999 she served as the senator for Schools, Young People and Sport. In 1999 she resigned from the senate and withdrew from her role as a frontline SPD city politician. Since 2000 she has worked on a self-employed basis in various consultancy functions.