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Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
About Helga Timm
- Helga Magdalena Timm (11 July 1924 in Hamburg – 6 December 2014 in Darmstadt) was a German politician. Timm studied History, Classics and Education from 1946 to 1952.
- She earned a doctorate at the University of Hamburg in 1952.
- Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Fritz Fischer, investigated the grand coalition formed by Hermann Müller, and its ultimate breakdown in 1930.
- The Commission for Parliamentary History and Political Parties published the dissertation in 1953 as the first study that dealt with the subject.From 1953 to 1965, Timm worked as a scientific fellow of the UNESCO Youth Institute in Gauting.
- She then lectured at the Institute of Labour, affiliated with the University of Frankfurt.
- From 1946 until 1952, Timm was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Socialist German Student Union.
- Timm was elected to the Bundestag (German Federal Parliament) from a regional list of candidates of the SPD party in Hessen, and served for six terms between 20th October 1969 and 20th December 1990.
- From 1973 to 1987, she was chief whip of the SPD party, responsible for ensuring that members are present at voting time.
- In addition, Timm had a seat on the German Society Committee for the United Nations.She was buried in Darmstadt Forest Cemetery.
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