{{short description|German politician, president of EPP Women (born 1942)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Doris Pack | image = File:President EPP Women.jpg | office = [[Member of the European Parliament]] for [[Germany (European Parliament constituency)|Germany]] | term_start = 1989 | term_end = 2014 | office2 = Member of the [[Bundestag]] | term_start2 = 1974 | term_end2 = 1983 | term_start3 = 1985 | term_end3 = 1989 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|03|18|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Schiffweiler]] | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | party = [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian Democratic Union]], [[European People's Party]] | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = Teacher | signature = | website = | caption = Doris Pack EPP Women President }}
'''Doris Pack''' (born 18 March 1942, [[Schiffweiler]]) is a German politician, president of [https://www.eppwomen.eu/ EPP Women], president of the [[Robert Schuman Institute]] and former [[Member of the European Parliament]] 1989–2014. She served as a member of the [[Bundestag]] 1974–1983 and 1985–1989.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/newsbriefs/setimes/newsbriefs/2010/06/17/nb-10|title=BiH parliament gives preliminary approval to census|date=17 June 2010|work=[[Southeast European Times]]|access-date=22 June 2010}}</ref> She is a member of the [[conservatism|conservative]] [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian Democratic Union]], part of the [[European People's Party]]. Pack is the chair of the EU [[Committee on Culture and Education]] (since 2009).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/view.do;jsessionid=130F63086324FE2F17A090F762D24775.node2?language=EN&partNumber=2&country=DE&id=1191|title=European Parliament profile - Doris Pack|access-date=20 May 2011}}</ref>
She is chair of the Franco-German Foundation for Cultural Cooperation, president of the European Children's Book Fair Association, member of the ZDF Television Council, president of the Saar Adult Education Association, and, vice-president of the European Movement on the Saar. She also is president of Women in the EPP and executive member of the European People's Party. She was a member of the [[Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe]] and of the Assembly of the [[Western European Union]] (1981–1983 and 1985–1989). She is chairwoman of the advisory board of [[A Soul for Europe]].
She graduated from teaching college in 1965 and worked as a teacher in primary schools until 1974. From 1983 to 1985, she was employed by the Saarland Ministry of Education.
==Award== She was decorated with [[Order of Duke Trpimir]] in 1995 by the [[president of Croatia]] [[Franjo Tuđman]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeno/1995/0912.htm|title=Odluka kojom se odlikuju Redom kneza Trpimira s ogrlicom i Danicom|language=hr|year=1995|journal=[[Narodne novine]]|issue=46}}</ref>
In 2007 she got [[honorary degree|''honoris causa'' doctorate]] at the [[University of Zadar]] (Croatia).
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==External links== {{commons category-inline}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110718231527/http://www.dorispack.de/ Official website] {{in lang|de}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140714231628/http://www.filmneweurope.com/filmneweurope-tv/106232-doris-pack-chair-of-the-eu-committee-on-culture-and-education/menu-id-125 Doris Pack, Chair of the EU Committee on Culture and Education] filmneweurope.com, June 13, 2014 {{Members of the 7th Bundestag}}{{European Parliament MEPs, 1989-1994 (Germany) by party}}{{European Parliament MEPs, 1994-1999 (Germany) by party}}{{European Parliament MEPs, 2004-2009 (Germany) by party}}{{European Parliament MEPs, 2009-2014 (Germany) by party}} {{Authority control}} {{Members of the 10th Bundestag}}{{Members of the 11th Bundestag}}
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