Ms. Uta Zapf

Ms. Uta Zapf
Country: 
Germany
Parliament: 
German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag)
Party: 
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Website: 
Uta Zapf
Twitter: 
@utazapf
Previous other affiliations: 
  • Chair of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation,
  • Member of the committee on Foreign Affairs,
  • Substitute member of the Sub-Committee on Civilian Crisis Prevention,
  • Substitute member of the Committee on Defence.
Interested in: 
Global Security Challenges
Non-proliferation
Regional Cooperation & Security
Regions of interest: 
Europe (EU)
Bio: 

Ms. Zapf is a German politician and former member of the Bundestag (1990-2013). From 1998 to 2013, she was chairperson of the subcommittee for "Disarmament, Arms Control, and Nonproliferation" of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag.

Ms. Zapf joined the SPD in 1972, and since 1990 has been the chairperson of the commission of "International Politics and Peace" (Internationale Politik und Frieden) of the SPD executive committee for South Hesse (Hessen Süd). She has belonged to the SPD executive committee of South Hesse since 1983 and has been acting chairperson since 1990.

In 2003, she was one of the co-founders of the "One World" ("Eine Welt") forum initiated by the Social Democrats in Hesse.