Dorothee Stapelfeldt
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Dorothee Stapelfeldt is a German
Germany
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 politician
Politician
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, representative of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Social Democratic Party of Germany
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 and member of the Hamburg Parliament
Hamburg Parliament
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Stapelfeldt was born in 1953 in Hamburg
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-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. She took her school exam
Abitur
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 in 1975, and studied history of art, literary criticism, and social and economic history at the University of Hamburg
University of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. It grew out of the previous Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen and the Kolonialinstitut as well as the Akademisches Gymnasium. There are around 38,000 students as of the start of...

. In 1989 she earned a doctorate. She is married, but living separated and has 2 children.

Stapelfeldt ia a member of the (SPD) and the verdi union. She is member of the state parliament since 1986. From 2000 to 2004 she was President of the Hamburg Parliament
Hamburg Parliament
The Hamburg Parliament is the unicameral legislature of the German state of Hamburg according to the constitution of Hamburg. As of 2011 there were 121 members in the parliament, representing a relatively equal amount of constituencies...

. In 2007 she was in competition with Mathias Petersen for the position of top candidate for the Hamburg state election, but resigned after friction during an internal SPD election.

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