Angelika Barbe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Angelika Barbe

German politician

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1951

Place of Birth: Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg, Germany

Profession: politician, biologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Angelika Barbe (born Angelika Mangoldt, 26 November 1951) is a German biologist who became a politician.During the changes in the later 1980s which led to a restoration of democracy in East Germany, and German reunification just over six months after that, she played a leading role in the opposition movement, and was a co-founder of the relaunched (in East Germany) Social Democratic party.
Following reunification she served as a member of the national parliament (Bundestag) between 1990 and 1994.
She has been identified with a certain "moral rigour" which was on display in 1996 when she switched her political allegiance from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to the CDU (centre-right party) because she found her SPD party colleagues unnecessarily accommodating with the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) (which was at that stage a partially re-invented successor to what had been the ruling party in the old East German one-party dictatorship).