Karin Evers-Meyer

Karin Evers-Meyer 2013 in Wittmund

Karin Evers-Meyer , b. Evers, (born September 10, 1949 in Neuchâtel , Friesland district ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2005 to 2009 she was the Federal Government Commissioner for the interests of disabled people .

Life and work

After completing secondary school , Karin Evers-Meyer completed a commercial training and then worked at the Academy of Arts in Berlin . After her parental leave, she worked as a writer for industrial films.

Karin Evers-Meyer is married and has two sons. One of her sons has died. Her late son was born with a disability due to a birth defect.

Political party

She has been a member of the SPD since 1978.

MPs

Karin Evers-Meyer was a member of the Zetel municipality council from 1997 to 2001 . From 1986 to 2006 she was a member of the district council of the district of Friesland . From 1998 to 2002 she was also a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

From 2002 to 2017 she was a member of the German Bundestag . From May to October 2005 she was deputy spokeswoman for the working group on security issues of the SPD parliamentary group . From November 2009 she was deputy spokeswoman for the working group on security and defense policy in her group.

Karin Evers-Meyer always moved into the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency Friesland - Wilhelmshaven . In the 2005 Bundestag election , she received 50.4% of the first votes . In the 2009 Bundestag election , she was able to defend her direct mandate with 39.9% of the first votes despite losses. In the 17th electoral term of the German Bundestag she was a full member of the Defense Committee and a deputy member of the Budget Committee of the Bundestag. In the 18th electoral term she was a member of the budget committee of the Bundestag and a deputy member of the defense committee .

Public offices

Karin Evers-Meyer was an honorary district administrator for the district of Friesland from 1994 to 2003 .

On November 24, 2005 Karin Evers-Meyer was appointed Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of Disabled People. In this position, she signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the United Nations in New York in 2006 , which in Article 24 commits to an "inclusive" education system . On December 4, 2008, the German Bundestag passed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities , with which Germany is officially committed to inclusion, which is binding under international law . Evers-Meyer's activity as Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of Disabled People ended at the beginning of the 17th electoral term of the German Bundestag.

Volunteering

Karin Evers-Meyer was elected Vice President at the regional assembly of the DRK regional association in Oldenburg on June 21, 2017. On June 26, 2018, she took over the office of President of the DRK Regional Association Oldenburg from Dieter Holzapfel . After only one year in office, she stepped down from this position on June 13, 2019.

From 1995 to 2005 she was honorary president of the Niederdeutscher Bühnenbund Lower Saxony and Bremen . After the term of office, she was awarded the title of Honorary President.

Honors

In December 2016 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

Quotes

On the situation of people with disabilities in the Federal Republic of Germany:

“No comparable country sorts children according to type of disability. We have a separate school for each case. But after that there isn't a job, but a workshop for the disabled - further separated from the rest of the world. "

"Because we see disabled people less and less in our everyday lives, society becomes alienated from them."

Web links

Commons : Karin Evers-Meyer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Heike Haarhoff: Decision on PGD: "Einstein in a wheelchair? Jobless! ” Interview in the taz , July 8, 2011, accessed on February 28, 2018.
↑ Walter Wüllenweber: The school turnaround . Stern , May 25, 2014, pp. 37–45, here p. 45; reproduced on the website of the “Elterntreff - Trisomie 21 - Rheingau-Taunus Wiesbaden”, accessed on February 28, 2018 (pdf; 2.6 MB).
^ Olaf Ulbrich: Award: Evers-Meyer receives Federal Cross of Merit . NWZonline , December 16, 2016, accessed February 28, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Evers-Meyer, Karin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Evers, Karin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	September 10, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neuchâtel , Friesland district

[taz-1] A ^b Heike Haarhoff: Decision on PGD: "Einstein in a wheelchair? Jobless! ” Interview in the taz , July 8, 2011, accessed on February 28, 2018.

[2] Walter Wüllenweber: The school turnaround . Stern , May 25, 2014, pp. 37–45, here p. 45; reproduced on the website of the “Elterntreff - Trisomie 21 - Rheingau-Taunus Wiesbaden”, accessed on February 28, 2018 (pdf; 2.6 MB).

[3] Olaf Ulbrich: Award: Evers-Meyer receives Federal Cross of Merit . NWZonline , December 16, 2016, accessed February 28, 2018.