Ursula Pistorius

Ursula Pistorius (née Raabe; 18 January 1933, in Frankfurt (Oder); 4 September 2015, in Osnabrück) was a German politician (SPD) and a Member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony.

Early life and education Pistorius first went to grade school and later to a secondary school and a comprehensive school until 1949. In that same year, her family moved to West Germany. In 1952, she got her Abitur at the catholic girls school in Osnabrück.

She represented the Constituency Osnabrück-East from the 9th to the 11th legislative period of the Landtag of Lower Saxony. She won her constituency directly (Direktmandat) in the elections of , and 1986 respectively. She was deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary caucus in the Landtag from 21 June 1986, to 20 June 1990. Pistorius' second son is Boris Pistorius, an SPD-politician who was lord mayor of Osnabrück and is the current Federal Minister of Defence since 19 January 2023.