Andrea Ypsilanti

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Andrea Ypsilanti (2008)

Andrea Ypsilanti (born Dill , born April 8, 1957 in Rüsselsheim ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From March 2003 to January 2009 she was chairwoman of the Hessian state association of her party and from 2007 to 2009 also chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament . After her resignation, she was still a member of parliament until the state election in Hesse in 2018 .

Life

Andrea Dill grew up as the second of three daughters of a housewife and an Opel master toolmaker in Rüsselsheim, Hesse. After graduating from high school, she worked as both a secretary and a flight attendant at Lufthansa . In the early 1980s she married Manolis (Emmanuel) Ypsilantis, born in Athens in 1944 , a member of the Greek- Phanariotic noble family Ypsilantis . The couple lived in Spain for two years and then near Oberursel (Taunus) , and separated in the early 1990s. She lives in Frankfurt am Main with her current partner Klaus-Dieter Stork and her son .

From 1986 to 1992 Andrea Ypsilanti studied sociology , political science and education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , graduating with a degree in sociology . She wrote her diploma thesis on the subject of "Women and Power".

Political party

In the same year in which Ypsilanti began her studies, she joined the SPD and quickly became a member of the Juso district board and the state board. From 1991 to 1993 she was chairwoman of the Hessian Jusos, before she became head of department in the State Chancellery for Prime Minister Hans Eichel in 1994 . In March 2003 she was elected chairwoman of the Hessian SPD state association . In November 2005 he was elected to the party's federal executive committee. On January 18, 2009, she resigned from her offices as state and parliamentary group chairman. Her successor was Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel .

MPs

In 1999 she moved into the Hessian state parliament for the first time via the state list , to which she was a member until 2018. Ypsilanti was responsible for the constituency of Frankfurt am Main VI (North / East), in which it was only directly elected in 2008 . In 2013 she was defeated by the CDU applicant Boris Rhein , but, as in 2003 and 2009, entered parliament via the state list. In the 2018 election, she no longer ran.

Failed government formation in 2008

Andrea Ypsilanti (2008)

Ypsilanti was elected on December 2, 2006 at the Hessian state party congress in the second ballot with a narrow majority (175 against 165 votes, after a 172: 172 stalemate in the first ballot) against Jürgen Walter, who was favored in a (non-binding) member vote, as the top candidate . On January 16, 2007, Ypsilanti also took over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group.

In the state elections on January 27, 2008, the CDU lost its absolute majority and the SPD became the second strongest party after the CDU with a margin of 0.1 percentage points. After the election, Ypsilanti strove to form a government led by the SPD with the participation of the left excluded before the election . Within the party, for example by Susanne Kastner , this was interpreted as a strategic error. External voices - including Claudia Roth - also spoke at the end of 2008 of a “power-political dilettantism” of the SPD under the leadership of Ypsilanti, which was unable to replace Roland Koch despite the large loss of votes and the resulting resistance from within the party.

The proposed Red-Green minority government under tolerance by the party Die Linke (based on the Magdeburg model ), in contrast to statements by Ypsilanti, stood before the election, with which it had repeatedly ruled out any cooperation with the left.

Ypsilanti was accused of breaking his word in this context. She admitted this, but pointed out that she would also be in the word for other, in particular substantive, determinations in social and educational policy and that she wanted to adhere to them in accordance with the election results. Ypsilanti and other leading Hessian social democrats declared after the election that it was important to implement the SPD's program from the state election campaign.

After the announcement by the state parliament member Dagmar Metzger (SPD) that she would refuse to vote for the planned constellation for reasons of conscience, Ypsilanti was forced to postpone her plan to be elected Prime Minister in the Hessian state parliament. Instead, the three parties, the SPD, the Greens and the Left, agreed on a timetable for discussing a common policy and forming a minority government. At a special party conference, the SPD Hesse supported Ypsilanti's course with almost 96 percent of the vote.

On November 3, 2008, four members of the SPD parliamentary group - Jürgen Walter , Dagmar Metzger, Carmen Everts and Silke Tesch - announced that they would not vote for Ypsilanti in the election for prime minister planned for November 4. Thus the intention of forming a minority government of the SPD and the Greens with tolerance by the left failed in the Hessian state parliament, the intended vote was canceled.

On November 8, 2008, Ypsilanti decided not to run again as the top SPD candidate in the new election in January 2009, which had now been announced by all parties, and proposed Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel , member of the state parliament, for this task. She took over the political responsibility for the significant loss of votes of the Hessian SPD on the evening of the state elections on January 18, 2009 and resigned as state and parliamentary group chairman, but remained in second place on the SPD state list of members of the state parliament due to her position. She also retained her seat on the Presidium of the Federal SPD. On October 22, 2009, she announced that she would no longer stand for re-election to the SPD federal executive committee.

Political positions

Andrea Ypsilanti is assigned to the left spectrum of the SPD. In view of the so-called " Hartz reforms " in 2003, "[she] warned against dismantling the welfare state" and thus opposed Chancellor Gerhard Schröder . However, she agreed to Agenda 2010 at the SPD federal party conference . In the election campaign for the Hessian state elections in 2008 , Ypsilanti called for all-day schools to be strengthened , for the shortening of high school time to be withdrawn and for tuition fees to be abolished . She also advocated the introduction of minimum wages and a prevention program against child neglect.

Ypsilanti also pleaded for increased entry into renewable energies and included Hermann Scheer as a ministerial candidate in their election campaign. The energy and industrial policy views such as Scheer's involvement were also controversial within the party and led to conflicts and the like. a. with Jürgen Walter and Wolfgang Clement . For this reason, a week before the state elections, Clement had indirectly advised against the election of Ypsilantis or the Hessian SPD in a guest post for Welt am Sonntag . Ypsilanti is a co-founder of the Solidarity Modern Institute . V. and one of five speakers on its board.

Books

  • “On the move into social modernity.” Political speeches and contributions 2006–2008. With a foreword by Franz Alt and a foreword by Jörg Jordan. Ponte Press, 2008.
  • “And tomorrow we rule ourselves” A polemic. Westend, 2017.

Web links

 Wikinews: Andrea Ypsilanti  - in the news
Wikiquote: Andrea Ypsilanti  - Quotes
Commons : Andrea Ypsilanti  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constantin Magnis: "Miss Dill from royal cities" Cicero, October 2008.
  2. ↑ a b Constantin Magnis: Princess Ypsilanti. In: The star. May 2, 2008.
  3. ↑ Heike Haarhoff: The top candidate of the SPD: Andrea Ypsilanti wants to do it. In: taz.de . January 29, 2008, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Biography andrea-ypsilanti.de
  5. ↑ FAZ: The strong-willed. In: FAZ.net . January 26, 2008, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved December 20, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Ypsilanti is no longer running for the Hessian state parliament. spiegel.de, October 18, 2017, accessed October 20, 2017 .
  7. ↑ forward HESSEN. Information from the SPD regional association and the SPD parliamentary group in Hesse. December 2006 / January 2007 ( PDF ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); 516 kB)
  8. ^ SPD politicians attack Andrea Ypsilanti , article from March 9, 2008 on deutschlandradio.de
  9. ↑ DPA / Reuters / msg / spi: Hessen: Ypsilanti wants minority government. In: stern.de . March 4, 2008, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Helmut Markwort: Diary: Actress Ypsilanti. In: Focus Online . March 5, 2008, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  11. ↑ a b quote: On the one hand, she promised: “Never with the left.” On the other hand, she promised her voters to start a fairer education policy, to abolish tuition fees and to do more for social issues if she had the opportunity. “You have to say somewhere: I can't keep this promise,” Ypsilanti stated. PITT VON BEBENBURG: But with the left: Ypsilanti is committed to breaking his word. In: fr-online.de . March 5, 2008, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  12. ↑ SPD looking for an alliance: Scheer: No broken words when cooperating with leftists . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 27, 2008, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 26, 2016]).
  13. ↑ Annett Meiritz: Dagmar Metzger: The woman who plunges Ypsilanti into the crisis. In: Spiegel Online . March 6, 2008, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Hessen: Ypsilanti gives up left experiment - renouncing election as prime minister. In: Spiegel Online . March 7, 2008, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  15. ^ Christoph Hickmann: Hessen - New schedule for Ypsilanti election. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 17, 2010, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Ypsilanti's coalition plans: Hesse's SPD clears the way for red-red-green. In: Spiegel Online . October 4, 2008, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Four deviants let Ypsilanti fail ( Memento from November 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: sueddeutsche.de
  18. ↑ Schäfer-Gümbel becomes SPD top candidate ( Memento from December 3, 2008 in the web archive archive.today ). On: hr-online.de, November 8, 2008.
  19. ↑ Hesse's SPD leader: Schäfer-Gümbel is to replace Ypsilanti. In: Spiegel Online . January 18, 2009, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  20. ↑ Withdrawal: Ypsilanti leaves the SPD federal executive. In: Focus Online. October 22, 2009. Retrieved October 22, 2009 .
  21. ^ Daniel Friedrich Sturm: Parties: Schröder's Agenda 2010 divides the SPD to this day . In: THE WORLD . January 21, 2009 ( welt.de [accessed August 9, 2018]).
  22. ↑ Ypsilanti wants to abolish tuition fees. In: tagesspiegel.de. January 4, 2008. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Christoph Schmidt Lunau: Hesse's SPD top woman wants Scheer as minister. In: tagesspiegel.de. June 3, 2007. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  24. ↑ a b Peter Unfried: Ausgeschert. It personifies what seems impossible - a modernized social democracy. An encounter with Andrea Ypsilanti. www.taz.de, January 27, 2018, accessed on January 28, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Clement warns against the election of Andrea Ypsilanti. In: welt.de . January 19, 2008, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  26. ↑ Ypsilanti reports back with the left “think tank”. In: handelsblatt.com . February 1, 2010, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  27. ^ Entry in the catalog of the German National Library
  28. ^ Entry in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Ypsilanti, Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dill, Andrea (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruesselsheim