Heide Simonis - Life

Life

Simonis earned her high school degree (Abitur) in 1962 in Nürnberg. Thereafter, she studied economics and sociology at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Kiel, that she finished with a degree in economics in 1967. She worked in different positions after 1967.

Simonis has been married to university professor Udo Simonis.

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