Elisabeth Jeggle

Speech by Elisabeth Jeggles at the launch ceremony for the Steinbühl Tunnel (July 2013)

Elisabeth Jeggle on a 1999 European election poster

Elisabeth Jeggle (born July 21, 1947 in Untermarchtal ) is a German politician. From 1999 to 2014 she was a member of the CDU's European Parliament for Baden-Württemberg in the European People's Party .

Life and education

After completing secondary school in 1964, Elisabeth Jeggle trained as a housekeeper from 1964 to 1967 . From 1968 she worked as a farmer in her husband's farm. In 1978 she passed the exam to become a master of urban housekeeping and in 1979 to become a master of rural housekeeping.

politics

Elisabeth Jeggle is a member of the CDU and is active there in various board positions. Among other things, she has been deputy district chairwoman of the CDU Württemberg-Hohenzollern since 1993, deputy district chairwoman of the CDU Biberach since 1994, member of the CDU federal committee for agricultural policy since 1994 and member of the CDU state executive committee of Baden-Württemberg since 1995.

She has been involved in local politics as a member of the Biberach district council since 1999 .

In the European Parliament, Elisabeth Jeggle was a member of the board of the EPP-ED group and deputy chairwoman of the CDU / CSU group in the European Parliament.

Tasks and responsibilities:

Member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Deputy for the Committee on Transport and Tourism
Substitute for the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
Member of the delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia

From 2009 to 2014, Jeggle was Vice-Chair of the Delegation for Relations with Canada . She was a member of the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee and the Human Rights Subcommittee . As a deputy, she was in the Committee on Foreign Affairs , in the delegation in the committees for parliamentary cooperation EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan as well as for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia. She was also in the delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.