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ODESSA – When she was nominated president of the Bundestag, journalists frantically searched the web to look for information on that little-known social democratic policy that had just been hoisted by the Scholz government on the throne of Parliament. And they found that Baerbel Baswho grew up in the heart of industrial Germany, in Duisburg, in a family with five brothers, a great fan of motorcycles and football, with the typical dry Ruhr humor, she had cut her teeth as a secretary and employed before climbing the regional SPD.