Wilmya Zimmermann
Wilmya Zimmermann | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office July 19, 1994 – July 19, 1999 | |
| Constituency | Germany |
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| Born | July 30, 1944 |
| Party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
Wilmya Zimmermann (born 30 July 1944) is a German politician who served in the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999.
Biography
Wilmya Zimmermann, who was born on 30 July 1944 in Heerlen, Netherlands,[1] attended secondary school and was trained as and later became a Medical Technician Assistant in a Heerlen hospital and at Radboud University Nijmegen.[1] In 1970, she moved to Germany to take up employment at the University of Marburg.[1] She was later transferred to the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg.[1]
In 1986, Zimmermann joined the Public Services, Transport and Traffic Union.[1] She is a member of Europa-Union Deutschland[1]
Zimmerman was married at some point before 1999.[1]
Politics
In 1988, Zimmermann joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and she is the treasurer of the party's Bamberg-Forchheim division.[2]
She was elected to the European Parliament in 1994 and served as a member until 1999.[1] She worked on the committee with diplomatic relations with Romania and Bulgaria.[1] She was the first MEP to be elected in a country of which she did not have citizenship.[1]
