Background
Dorothee Bär, grew up in Ebelsbach, Landkreis Haßberge where she still lives.
Dorothee Bär, grew up in Ebelsbach, Landkreis Haßberge where she still lives.
She finished high school in Grayslake, Illinois in 1996 and Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium in Bamberg in 1999. She studied political science in several universities throughout Germany and received her diploma in 2005 from Otto-Suhr-Institut of the Free University of Berlin.
After her graduation, she worked as a journalist for several radio stations and newspapers. From 2001 to 2003, she served as the Chairperson of the Ring of the Christian Democratic Students (Royal College of Defence Studies) of Bavaria, while in November 2008 she was elected as the Deputy National Chairperson of the Junge Union. In February 2009, she became the National Deputy Secretary General of the C.S.U. under party chairman Horst Seehofer.
Between 2009 and 2013, she then served on the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth as well as on the Committee on Cultural and Media Affairs.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal elections, Bär was part of the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) delegation in the working group on families, integration of immigrants and culture, led by Maria Böhmer and Hans-Joachim Otto. In the coalition talks following the 2013 federal elections, she led the working group on digital policy.
Her co-chair was Brigitte Zypries of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Wasserwacht of the Bavarian Red Cross, Chairwoman
Atlantik-Brücke, Member
Quadriga University of Applied Sciences Berlin, (2009–2013).
Bär started her political career in 1996, joining the Junge Union (Junior Party of the Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union)), while in 1994 she became a member of the C.S.U.
Atlantik-Brücke; European Union Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag]
In 1999, she became a member of the Board of Directors of the Junge Union for the region of Lower Franconia. Since the 2002 national elections, Bär has been a member of the German Parliament representing the Bad Kissingen electoral district (#248) which comprises three counties: Bad Kissingen, Rhön-Grabfeld, and Haßberge. Between 2005 and 2009, Bär was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
In addition, she is a member of the German-Korean Parliamentary Friendship Group.
ÖPartido Popular (Popular Party) Deutschland AG, Ex-officio Member of the Supervisory Board
University of Würzburg, Member of the Board of Trustees
AFS Intercultural Programs - Germany, Member of the Board of Trustees
German Academy for Literature for Children and Young Adults, Member of the Advisory Board
Kissinger Sommer, Member of the Board of Trustees
cnetz, Member of the Advisory Board
Total East-Quality initiative, Member of the Board of Trustees
Computer Numerical Control Communications & Network Consulting, Member of the Board of Experts (2009–2013)
Federal Agency for Civic Education, Member of the Board of Trustees (2005–2009)
Rhön-Klinikum, Member of the Advisory Board (2009–2013)
RTL Television, Member of the Program Committee (2009–2013)
German Federal Film Board (Future Farmers of America), Member of the Supervisory Board (2005–2013).