Gesine schwan biography of albert

Prof. Gesine Schwan was born in 1943 in Berlin and is a political scientist.

She graduated in Romance languages, history, philosophy and political science in Berlin and Freiburg with study visits to Warsaw and Krakow. Since 1972, she has been a member of the SPD (German Social Democratic Party) and has chaired its Commission for Fundamental Values since 2015.

From 1977 to 1999 Prof. Schwan was a professor of political science and from 1992 to 1994 Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at the Free University, Berlin.

Gesine schwan biography of albert

She became president of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1999 and has contributed significantly to its development. Between 2005 and 2009 she assumed the office of Coordinator of the Federal Government for Civil Cooperation with the Republic of Poland.

She stood as an electoral candidate in 2004, she was nominated by the SPD and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen as a candidate for the office of the Federal President of Germany in 2009.