Sabine Uecker

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1990-0705-328, Sabine Uecker.jpg

| office = Member of the Bundestag

| termstart = 3 October 1990

| termend = 20 December 1990

| office1 = Member of the Volkskammer
for Bezirk Potsdam

| termstart1 = 18 March 1990

| termend1 = 2 October 1990

| party = SDP (since 1990)

| otherparty = SDP (East Germany)
(1989{{endash}}1990)

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|5|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Potsdam, Free State of Prussia, Germany

}}

Sabine Uecker (born 1 May 1943) is a German chemical engineer and politician who served in the Volkskammer and the reunified Bundestag in 1990. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she represented the town of Teltow.

Biography

Sabine Uecker was born on 1 May 1943 in Potsdam, Brandenburg.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I2-Noeu8dmIC&q=%22sabine+uecker%22+-wiki+-wikipedia |title=Daily Report - West Europe |date=1990 |publisher=Foreign Broadcast Information Service |language=en}} Her parents were both teachers, and she grew up in East Germany. She received her Abitur in 1961, and began studying chemical engineering. A resident of the town of Teltow, she was the head of research and development at VEB Electronic Components Teltow in 1990.{{Cite web |title=Uecker, Sabine |url=http://volkparl.bundestag.de/U/uecker-sabine/ |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=Bundestag/Volkskammer |language=de}}

In November 1989, Uecker co-founded a branch of the Social Democratic Party in Teltow. She was elected to the Volkskammer in the March 1990 East German general election, the only free and fair parliamentary election in the country's history, representing the Potsdam District as a member of the SDP.{{Cite book |url=https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/ADS/Findbuch_01.pdf |title=PDS-Fraktion in der Volkskammer der DDR (März bis Oktober 1990) |publisher=Rosa Luxemburg Foundation |year=2003 |location=Berlin |pages=66 |language=de |trans-title=PDS faction in the People's Chamber of the GDR (March to October 1990)}} She served in the Volkskammer until 2 October 1990, as Germany reunified the following day. Uecker immediately began serving in the Bundestag as a member of the reunified Social Democratic Party, sitting on the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs. She ran for re-election in the 1990 German federal election, but was defeated.{{Cite book |last=Vierhaus |first=Rudolf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rt6SIMzeOFYC&dq=%22uecker+sabine%22+-wiki+-wikipedia&pg=PA1057 |title=Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages 1949-2002 |date=2011 |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-096905-4 |location=Munich |pages=887 |language=de |trans-title=Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag 1949-2002 |author-link=Rudolf Vierhaus}}

Uecker was also a member of the Teltow city council and the Potsdam-Mittelmark district council from 1990 until 1995. After leaving parliament, she became the head of the Brandenburg State Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Women; she held the position until her retirement in 2006.