Agnes Alpers

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Agnes Alpers (born June 29, 1961 in Oerel ) is a German educator , politician ( SEW , Die Linke ) and former member of the German Bundestag .

Life

Alpers studied pedagogy at the Free University of Berlin from 1980 and graduated in 1986 with a diploma. She then worked in child and youth work.

She is the founder of a school association and headed the first children's sambagruppe in Bremen.

Before moving to full-time politics, she was most recently head of the day care center in Rütlistraße in Berlin-Neukölln .

She is married and has two kids.

After a speech in the Bundestag on June 28, 2013, Alpers collapsed and had to be resuscitated on site. A stroke due to a ruptured aneurysm was diagnosed and Alpers was placed in an artificial coma. At the end of July she was brought back from the artificial coma. In September 2013 she was transferred to a clinic in Bremen. Since mid-February 2015 - after completing her long medical rehabilitation - she has been living in a nursing home .

politics

Agnes Alpers was a member of the “ Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin ”, a communist party in West Berlin closely linked to the SED and the DKP and led by the SED .

In the 17th legislative period of the Bremen citizenship (2007-2009) Alpers represented the Left Party in the municipal deputation for education.

In September 2009 she was elected a member of the German Bundestag via the Bremen state list . There she was a full member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment and a deputy member of the Petitions Committee .

In January 2011 Alpers called for an end to the war in Afghanistan .

In 2012, Alpers supported a cross-party draft law brought in by a group of over 50 members of the Bundestag. With regard to the religiously motivated circumcision of underage boys, this stipulated that the circumcision could only be carried out from the age of religious majority (14 years).

Despite her stroke, Alpers remained in first place on the Bremen state list and was re-elected to the Bundestag in the 2013 general election. On March 2, 2015, she resigned her mandate for health reasons. Her successor was Birgit Menz .

Web links

Commons : Agnes Alpers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Profile of Agnes Alpers. (No longer available online.) In: bundestag.de. German Bundestag, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 28, 2015 .
  2. ↑ This is Agnes Alpers. In: Weser Courier. October 22, 2013, accessed May 28, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Emergency doctor deployment in the Bundestag: Left-wing MPs collapse. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. June 28, 2013, accessed May 28, 2015 .
  4. ↑ mel: Agnes Alpers is doing better. In: Weser Courier. July 30, 2013, accessed May 28, 2015 .
  5. ^ Matthias Sander: Agnes Alpers back in Bremen. In: Weser Courier. September 4, 2013, accessed May 28, 2015 .
  6. ^ Withdrawal from the Bundestag. In: agnes-alpers.de. Agnes Alpers, March 2, 2015, accessed May 28, 2015 .
  7. ^ Profile of Agnes Alpers - member of the Bundestag. (No longer available online.) In: mitglieder-des-bundestags.de. Beate Hunsicker, archived from the original on May 28, 2015 ; accessed on May 28, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Agnes Alpers - Profile / Biography. In: linksfraktion.de. The Left Party in the Bundestag, accessed on May 28, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Handbook of the 17th legislative period of the Bremen citizenship. (PDF 4.5 MB) (No longer available online.) In: bremische-buergerschaft.de. Bremen citizenship, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 28, 2015 .
  10. ^ Agnes Alpers (DIE LINKE) - Committee memberships. In: Parliamentary Watch. Retrieved May 28, 2015 .
  11. ^ No votes for the extension of the Afghanistan deployment (ISAF). (No longer available online.) In: Parliament Watch. Archived from the original on May 28, 2015 ; accessed on May 28, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Matthias Koch: Soldiers stay in Afghanistan. (Newspaper scan 773 KB) In: Bremer Anzeiger. Agnes Alpers, January 30, 2011, accessed May 28, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Printed matter 17/11430 - Draft law on the scope of personal care and the rights of male children in the event of circumcision. (PDF 214 KB) In: bundestag.de. German Bundestag, November 8, 2012, accessed on May 28, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Press release: Birgit Menz is a new member of the Bundestag for the DIE LINKE parliamentary group . In: linksfraktion.de . DIE LINKE parliamentary group. in the Bundestag. March 25, 2015. Archived from the original on March 25, 2015. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Alpers, Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Oerel