Doris Schröder-Köpf

Doris Schröder-Köpf (née Köpf; born 5 August 1963) is a German journalist and politician.

Köpf and partner Sven Kuntze moved to New York City in 1990, where they had a daughter named Klara in the following year.

In October 1997, Köpf married Gerhard Schröder, then Minister-President of Lower Saxony.

The couple adopted three year old Viktoria from Saint Petersburg in 2004, and a boy named Gregor in 2006.

In April 2013, Schröder-Köpf was elected as a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony for the Social Democratic Party (SPD), where she serves on the Committee on Internal Affairs and Sports as well as on its Sub-Committee on Media.

With Vladimir Putin (left) and Gerhard Schröder (right) in 2003