Alexandra Dinges-Dierig

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Alexandra Dinges-Dierig

Alexandra Dinges-Dierig (born February 17, 1953 in Lübeck ) is a German economist and politician ( CDU ). From 2004 to 2008 she was Senator for Education and Sport for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . In 2011 she ran for the office of mayor of Lübeck , but was defeated in the runoff election to the incumbent Bernd Saxe . From 2013 to 2017 she was a member of the Bundestag .

Family and work

After high school in 1972 at the boarding - school Birklehof in Hinterzarten graduated Alexandra Dinges-Dierig (for them today - - Jan. 2019 as chairman of the School Board acts) a degree in economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg , they 1977 graduated as a graduate economist . She then worked as a research assistant at the economics seminar at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau until 1979 , then entered the legal clerkship for higher teaching at vocational schools and ended her legal traineeship in 1981 with the state examination . She then worked until 1991 as a teacher at the commercial school in Emmendingen .

From 1996 to 1998 she was at the Ministry of Culture and Sport of the State of Baden-Württemberg as advisor to the chairman of the school committee of the Conference of Ministers of Education . In 1999 she moved to the Ministry of Culture of the State of Hesse as head of the ministerial office and in 2001 finally took over the management of the State Institute for Schools and Media of the State of Berlin . After her work as Senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , Alexandra Dinges-Dierig founded the consulting firm assconsulting in 2009 with the task of “bringing together the various forces of the economy for the benefit of all.” () The company wants to advise and support other entrepreneurs in social responsibility to take over.

Alexandra Dinges-Dierig is married and has two children and two grandchildren.

2004–2008: Senator for Education and Sport

From March 17, 2004 to May 2008, she was a Senator for Education and Sport in the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, headed by Ole von Beust .

Alexandra Dinges-Dierig has been driving far-reaching school reform in Hamburg since 2005 . The aim of this reform was to simplify the multi-part school system in Hamburg, which until then consisted of 14 types of school , and to reduce the number of so-called “high-risk students”. In 2006 a commission of inquiry of the Hamburg citizenship started work. Alexandra Dinges-Dierig advocated that the commission should take care of the everyday problems of the pupils and make suggestions on how to reduce the number of high-risk pupils. After almost a year and a half of activity, the study commission published its final report. He envisaged the introduction of a "two-pillar model". Alexandra Dinges-Dierig then set up a planning staff in her authority, which was supposed to deal specifically with the Commission's 184 recommendations. In January 2008, Alexandra Dinges-Dierig then presented the first cornerstones and a schedule for implementing the school reform.

During her time as Senator in 2007 she was responsible for a sponsorship and advertising policy draft for the schools in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg. According to this draft, companies should be given the opportunity to advertise their products in schools. This should enable schools to use this money to improve their equipment.

In October 2007, as the representative of the Department for Education and Sports of the City of Hamburg, she was given a Big Brother Award in the “Regional” category for the establishment of a central student register, with which foreign families without a residence permit could have been tracked down.

Shortly before the election in February 2008, your proposal to “straighten out” the increased school requirements for children by introducing more school lessons on Saturday met with broad rejection in Hamburg. The incumbent First Mayor of Beust (CDU) also distanced himself.

2008–2011: Member of the Hamburg Parliament

In February 2008, Alexandra Dinges-Dierig was in the state election on the party list seats in parliament. Her mandate was suspended until May 2008. For her group she was a member of the Committee on Health and Consumer Protection, the Committee on Budgets, the Science Committee and the subcommittee for the audit of the budget. In 2011 she resigned from parliament.

In November 2008, Alexandra Dinges-Dierig criticized her successor in the office of school senator, Christa Goetsch . At that time, in Hamburg, this advocated the abolition of the four-year primary school and the introduction of a six-year primary school . Alexandra Dinges-Dierig told the media that she thinks the reform is "not good" at this point in time. Rather, in their opinion, the reforms that have already been initiated and in particular the introduction of the two-pillar model should have been implemented.

2011: Candidate for the mayor's office in Lübeck

In August 2011, she said in the Lübecker Nachrichten for the Lübeck CDU in the election for the office of mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck on November 6, 2011 against the long-time incumbent mayor Bernd Saxe (SPD). The office of the mayor of Lübeck has never been held by a woman. In addition to the CDU, Alexandra Dinges-Dierig was also nominated for the mayoral election in Lübeck by the voters' associations “Free Independent Lübeck” (FUL) and the “Citizens for Lübeck” (BfL) and supported by the FDP .

In the mayoral election (official final result in brackets) on November 6, 2011, Social Democrat Bernd Saxe (42.1%; 2005 in the first ballot: 47.2%) faced five competing challengers. The challenger of the CDU Alexandra Dinges-Dierig came to 28.0%. In addition, Thorsten Fürter from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen (19.4%) and three other applicants stood for election. In the runoff election on November 20, 2011, she was defeated by Bernd Saxe, who received 61.2 percent of the vote, with 38.8 percent.

2012

On April 21st, Jost de Jager proposed her as Minister of Education for Schleswig-Holstein at an election campaign event of the CDU in Wedel , if the CDU should provide the government after May 6th.

Member of the Bundestag

Dinges-Dierig was elected in October 2012 by the Lübeck CDU - unopposed with 89.2 percent of the vote - as the direct candidate of the Lübeck constituency for the Bundestag. It was secured by a promising position on the state list, as its SPD counter-candidate Gabriele Hiller-Ohm had won the direct mandate in Lübeck since 2003. It finally moved into the Bundestag via the state list. At the end of 2016, she announced that she would not run again in the next federal election in 2017 . She is one of the 75 Union MPs - 68 from the CDU (26.9% of all CDU MPs) and 7 from the CSU (12.5% ​​of all CSU MPs) - who voted for same-sex marriage in July 2017 .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Alexandra Dinges-Dierig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexandra Dinges-Dierig: addconsulting - Consulting in social responsibility. In: addconsulting.de. Retrieved January 16, 2015 .
  2. ^ DW: Dinges-Dierig for drastic school reform. In: The world . January 9, 2006, accessed January 16, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Oliver Schirg: Senator: Everyday Problems for Schoolchildren. In: The world . February 14, 2006, accessed January 16, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Education Senator Dinges-Dierig presents the schedule and key points for the introduction of the two-pillar model in Hamburg. Press release. In: bildungsklick.de. School and Vocational Training Authority (BSB), January 15, 2008, accessed January 16, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Jochen Leffers: Learning Effect: Hamburg dumps advertising in schools. In: Der Spiegel . August 30, 2007, accessed January 16, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Kaija Kutter: Enema for the Senator. In: The daily newspaper . February 8, 2008, accessed January 16, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Olaf Schiel: Ex-Senator Alexandra Dinges-Dierig criticizes the school reform. In: image . November 21, 2008, accessed January 16, 2015 .
  8. ^ Eva-Maria Mester: Dinges-Dierig wants mayor's post. In: The world . August 6, 2011, accessed January 16, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Dinges-Dierig starts their election campaign. In: HL live. October 7, 2011
  10. ↑ Saxe does it for the third time. In: Lübecker Nachrichten, special election edition. November 21, 2011, p. 1
  11. ↑ CDU selects Dinges-Dierig as a candidate for the Bundestag. In: Lübecker Nachrichten . October 26, 2012, accessed January 16, 2015 .
  12. ↑ http://m.ln-online.de/Lokales/Luebeck/Duell-um-den-Bundestag-Claudia-Schmidtke- geht-fuer-die-Luebecker-CDU-ins- Rennen
  13. ↑ DW: Marriage for everyone: which MPs voted for and which voted against. In: welt.de . June 30, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Dinges-Dierig, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck