Gabriele Zimmer is a German politician.

From 1981 to 1989 Zimmer was a member of the SED

Socialist Unity Party of Germany

The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the governing party of the German Democratic Republic from its formation on 7 October 1949 until the elections of March 1990. The SED was a communist political party with a Marxist-Leninist ideology...

. Since 1989, she has been a member of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). From 1990 to 1998 she was chairwoman of the PDS Thüringen

Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....

. Since October 1990 she has been a member of the Parliament in Thüringen.

Other political functions:

• 1999–2000 Chairwoman of PDS in the thuringian Parliament
• since 1995 Member of the PDS Executive Board
• 1997–2000 Vice Chairwoman of PDS
• 2000–03 Chairwoman of PDS