Edelgard Bulmahn

Edelgard Bulmahn
Vice President of the Bundestag
(on proposal of the SPD-group)
In office
22 October 2013 – 24 October 2017
PresidentNorbert Lammert
Preceded byWolfgang Thierse
Succeeded byThomas Oppermann
Chair of the Economics and Technology Committee
In office
23 November 2005 – 22 October 2013
Preceded byRainer Wend
Succeeded byEduard Oswald
Federal Minister of Education and Research
In office
26 October 1998 – 22 November 2005
ChancellorGerhard Schröder
Preceded byJürgen Rüttgers
Succeeded byAnnette Schavan
Member of the Bundestag for Stadt Hannover II
In office
25 January 1987 – 24 October 2017
Preceded byHelmut Rohde
Succeeded byYasmin Fahimi
Personal details
Born (1951-03-04) 4 March 1951 (age 73)
Petershagen, West Germany
Political partySocial Democratic Party of Germany
Alma materLeibniz University Hannover

Edelgard Bulmahn (born 4 March 1951) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Member of the German Bundestag between 1987 and 2017. She was Federal Minister of Education and Research from 1998 to 2005. From 2013 until 2017 she was elected as one of the Vice Presidents of the Bundestag.