Anja Piel

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Anja Piel (2018)

Anja Piel (born November 3, 1965 in Lübeck ) is a German politician of the Greens . From April 2010 to February 2013 she was chairwoman of the Lower Saxony regional association . For the state elections on January 20, 2013 , she and Stefan Wenzel were the top candidate of their party and since February 2013 she has been the leader of the Greens in the Lower Saxony state parliament . After the state elections in 2017, she was confirmed in this office and thus became an opposition leader . On March 25, 2020, she left the state parliament and moved to the DGB federal executive committee.

Life and work

Piel comes from a family close to the trade union, her father was chairman of the works council and a member of IG Metall . She passed the Abitur examination in Lübeck in 1985 and completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk in Bad Schwartau in 1989 . She became a member of the union. From 1991 to 1995 she helped set up the Mothers' Center in Hameln and was employed there from 1995 to 1997. She then worked as a freelancer for the Deister and Weser newspaper until 2007 .

Piel is married and has two children. She lives in Fischbeck .

politics

From 1998 to 2012 Piel was the managing director of the Hamelin parliamentary group of the Greens and in the course of this also joined the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party . In 2001 she was elected to the state delegates 'conference and federal delegates' conference and in 2005 to the state party council of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Lower Saxony .

Piel was deputy mayor of Fischbeck (Hessisch Oldendorf) from 2006 to 2015 and chairwoman of the Hameln-Pyrmont district association from 2009 to 2013 . From 2007 to 2010 Piel was deputy chairwoman of the Lower Saxony Greens. In the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2008 , she ran as a candidate for her party in the Hameln / Rinteln constituency .

At the Green State Party Congress 2010 in Northeim, Piel was elected as the successor of Dorothea Steiner, who had been drafted into the Bundestag, alongside Stefanie Henneke as state chairwoman with 105 of 128 valid votes . In 2011 she was re-elected at the Green State Party Congress with 118 of 144 votes cast. Anja Piel and Jan Haude , who replaced Stefanie Henneke, formed the new dual leadership of the Green Lower Saxony.

At the state delegates' conference in Wolfsburg at the end of June 2012, Piel was elected to first place on the list and, with the parliamentary group chairman Stefan Wenzel, formed the dual leadership of the Lower Saxony Greens for the 2013 state election. At the party convention on the coalition agreement and the election of a new state executive, Piel no longer stood for the office of State chairmen. On February 18, 2013, she was elected leader of the Greens in the Lower Saxony state parliament.

In mid-March 2015, Piel caused displeasure when she made negative statements about the high school in Lower Saxony, for which she later apologized publicly. Piel had discussed the school landscape of the Hameln-Pyrmont district at a general meeting of the Hamelin Greens and attacked the grammar schools with harsh words. "Parents with high incomes still want to keep their children away from the 'dirty children'," said Piel, according to a report in the Hamelin Deister and Weser newspaper. However, children from low-income families should have the same educational opportunities as the entrepreneurial children “who are now rioting at the grammar schools,” said Piel. Representatives of the grammar schools, education politicians and teachers were appalled.

Piel was the top candidate of the Greens together with Stefan Wenzel in the 2017 state election . At the federal delegates' conference in Hanover on January 27, 2018, she ran for the federal chairmanship and was defeated by competitor Annalena Baerbock .

In March 2020 she succeeded Annelie Buntenbach on the DGB federal executive board. Julia Willie Hamburg followed her as group leader . As a successor, Volker Bajus took her seat in parliament.

Volunteering

She is a member of the German Nature Conservation Union and of the Fischbeck Abbey in her home town.

Web links

Commons : Anja Piel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Andretta (Ed.), Department for Press, Public Relations, Protocol: Lower Saxony State Parliament. Handbook of the Lower Saxony Parliament of the 18th electoral period. 2017 to 2022 , 1st edition, Hanover: Lower Saxony State Parliament, 2018, p. 120
  2. ↑ a b State election on January 27, 2008 (PDF)
  3. ↑ Piel and Wenzel head the state list of the Lower Saxony Greens ( memento from July 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), June 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ http://www.partei.gruene-niedersachsen.de/cms/default/dokbin/366/366568.piel_bewerbung_landesvorsitz_2011.pdf (link not available)
  5. ↑ a b Designated head of the state on Lower Saxony's Greens. “We have many minds” , interview by Benno Schirrmeister with Anja Piel in the taz on April 15, 2010. Accessed on November 23, 2010.
  6. ↑ Anja Piel: "I have learned to say, I want" . In: Dewezet, April 25, 2010. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
  7. ↑ Anja Piel is the new country manager for the Greens . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, April 17, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  8. ↑ Anja Piel re-elected to the top of the Green Party . In: HAZ of February 5, 2011. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  9. ↑ Double leadership of the Greens newly elected . In: HAZ of February 5, 2011, accessed June 24, 2011.
  10. ↑ http://www.anja-piel.de/zur-person/biographie.html
  11. ↑ Whirl around school statements by Anja Piel: http://www.nwzonline.de/politik/niedersachsen/wirbel-um-schulaeusserung-von-anja-piel-wirbel-um-schulaeusserung-von-anja-piel_a_25,0,909661151. html
  12. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 25/26, 2020 p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Piel, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck