Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg

Studied: Sociology, psychology, ethnology, religious studies, philosophy and Indogermanistik at Bonn University, Germany (graduated in 1969)

Degrees: Magister Artium (1969), Dr. phil. (1970)

After graduation, Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg became a scientific assistant at the Sociological Institute of Bonn University, and worked as a sociologist, writer, and independent journalist, holding memberships in a number of scientific and political organizations, being a leading member of the German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research. During the late 1980s, Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg was a member of the German-parliament commissioned Enquetekommission AIDS, an inquiry commission researching into the disease's social, legal, and public health care consequences and challenges.