Ursula Koch Ursula Koch Ursula Koch (1 July 1941 in Zürich, citizen of Zürich) is a former Swiss politician, and was the first women president of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Born and raised in Zürich, Ursula Koch attended "Sekundarschule" in the municipality of Stäfa on "Zürichsee" lake shore. Thereafter she worked as a domestic helper in Lausanne, the so-called "Welschlandjahr" which at that time usually teenage women absolved in western Switzerland ("Welschland") to improve the knowledge of the French language. She graduated at the teacher training college in Zürich, and absolved in 1962 an exchange year at the University
Ursula Ragwitz member of the Party Central Committee, which became of the leading role afforded the party under the Leninist structure built into the East German constitution placed her at the heart of the country's power apparatus. Since the demise of the German Democratic Republic Ursula Ragwitz has lived with her husband as a pensioner in Berlin. Ursula Ragwitz Ursula Ragwitz (born Ursula Rose: 15 February 1928) is a former senior official of the ruling East German Socialist Unity Party. She started her career as a primary school teacher, and rose to become a member of the powerful Party Central Committee between