Ursula Pistorius

Pistorius first went to grade school and later to a secondary school and a comprehensive school until 1949.^[2] In that same year, her family moved to West Germany. In 1952, she got her Abitur at the catholic girls school Angelaschule [de] in Osnabrück.^[2]

She worked in a publishing company since 1952 and joined the Trade, Banking and Insurance Union in 1953. She quit her job after giving birth to her first son in 1956.^{[citation needed]}

Ursula Pistorius became a member of the SPD in 1970. She was on the City Council of Osnabrück from 1972 to 1996. She was a member of various committees during her tenure^[2][3]

She represented the Constituency Osnabrück-East from the 9th to the 11th legislative period of the Landtag of Lower Saxony. She won her constituency directly (Direktmandat)^[a] in the elections of 1978 [de], 1982 [de] and 1986 respectively. She was deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary caucus in the Landtag from 21 June 1986, to 20 June 1990.^[4][3]

She married Ludwig Pistorius (1923–2009) with whom she had three sons born in 1956, 1960 and 1962 respectively. She quit her job after giving birth to her first son.^[2] Pistorius' second son is Boris Pistorius, an SPD-politician who was lord mayor of Osnabrück and is the current Federal Minister of Defence since 19 January 2023.^[5][4]

After her retirement, she started a Seniorenstudium [de] (senior studies) and travelled through eastern Europe. In 2015, she died at the age of 82 following a short, heavy illness.^[6]