Angelika Beer

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Angelika Beer (2013)

Angelika Beer (born May 24, 1957 in Kiel ) is a German politician . From 2002 to 2004 she was federal chairwoman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . From 1987 to 1990 and from 1994 to 2002 she was a member of the German Bundestag and from 2004 to 2009 a member of the European Parliament . Since 2009 she has been a member of the Pirate Party Germany . From 2012 to 2017 she held a list mandate for this party as a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament .

Life and work

After secondary school , Angelika Beer completed an apprenticeship as a doctor's assistant and then as a lawyer and notary's assistant.

From 1992 to 1994 she was the coordinator of the international campaign to ban landmines / medico international .

Angelika Beer has been married to former Lieutenant Colonel of the German Armed Forces Peter Matthiesen since 2003 . She is the mother of a son from a previous marriage. Her father Herbert Beer was GB / BHE - member of the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein .

The Greens (1980-2009)

Party career

Angelika Beer in 1987 in the Bundestag

In the 1970s Angelika Beer was active in the Communist League (KB). Beer belonged to the KB spin-off " Group Z ", which campaigned for active party work within the Greens. In 1980 Angelika Beer was one of the founders of the Green Party in Neumünster . She was a member of the federal executive committee from 1991 to 1994 and was federal chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen together with Reinhard Bütikofer from December 2002 to October 2004 .

Member of Parliament

From 1987 to 1990 and from 1994 to 2002 Angelika Beer was a member of the German Bundestag , always moving in via the Schleswig-Holstein state list . In the Bundestag she was defense policy spokeswoman for the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group since 1994 .

She represented the bombing of Serbia and the intervention of the Bundeswehr in the Kosovo war, among other things in her Bundestag speech on March 25, 1999: “I hope that those who call us or me personally, as happened in the last few hours, finally get the answer when I asked what the alternative to this difficult decision would have been. "

She was not nominated again by her party for the 2002 Bundestag election. The background to this was the accusation that the former peace activist had increasingly developed into a military friend, for example through her committed advocacy for German participation in the Kosovo war, through publicly expressed "pride" in "our soldiers" and against the background of her liaison with one that was announced at the end of 2001 Bundeswehr officer.

She was a member of the European Parliament from the 2004 European elections . Here she was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Sub-Committee on Security and Defense Policy. She was also chair of the European Parliament's Iranian delegation. At the national party convention of the Greens for the European elections in 2009 , Beer repeatedly missed a new placement on the European list of her party with election results below 10 percent.

On March 28, 2009, Beer announced at a Schleswig-Holstein state party conference in Bad Oldesloe that she was leaving Alliance 90 / The Greens. She also criticized the peace policy of her party: "If peace hardly plays a role programmatically, if a really self-critical analysis of our government action on the issues of Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq was not possible in the Peace and Security Commission, then the Greens will political responsibility for the search for a real peace policy in the future is not fair. ”Party friends reacted with incomprehension.

Pirate Party (since 2009)

On September 25, 2009, Beer declared that he would support the Pirate Party and that they would vote for it in the 2009 federal election . In November 2009 she joined the Pirate Party. She ran for the party in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2012 in sixth place on the state list and as a direct candidate in the Neumünster constituency . She entered the state parliament via the list. There she was a member of the Environment and Agriculture Committee, the European Committee as well as a member of the committee for Sinti and Roma, the Frisians and the North Schleswig-Holstein and spokeswoman for her group for environmental, migration, European and energy policy.

To state election in 2017 it did not run. In an interview with Deutschlandfunk in 2018, she said about red-green and the decision on the Kosovo war: " Schröder said, either your Greens are doing it now or there is no Red-Green." In the same interview, Beer said that she was at the Pirate Party never had to bend in terms of content. During her time as a member of the state parliament of the Pirate Party in Schleswig-Holstein, she always had the freedom to make every decision for herself.

Fonts

  • Quo vadis NATO? - Quo vadis Europe? , with Otfried Nassauer , Berlin Information Center for Transatlantic Security (BITS), Berlin 2002.
  • Right-wing extremists in Northern Germany, who they are and what they do! A text by Andreas Speit , 72 pages, 2008, Angelika Beer (Ed.), MEP ( PDF )
  • Lecture at the conference "Right-wing extremism in Germany and Europe - current development trends in comparison" at the Heinz-Schwartzkopf Foundation October 9-11, 2008 Berlin, 10 pages ( PDF ), book on the conference with a contribution by Angelika Beer and the same title right-wing extremism in Germany and Europe: Current Development Trends in Comparison , 206 pages, (Eds.) Holger Spöhr and Sarah Kolls, Peter Lang Verlag , Frankfurt / Main (2010)
  • Right-wing extremism and right-wing populism in Europe , research from November 17, 2008 (updated June 9, 2009), 42 pages ( PDF )
  • Europe in the sights of the right-wing extremists , 130 pages, 2009, Angelika Beer (Ed.), MEP (PDF: [1] , [2] )

literature

Web links

Commons : Angelika Beer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Beer loves Lieutenant Colonel , Spiegel Online of December 23, 2001
  2. ↑ quoted from: Bundesvorstand Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen; Angelika Beer, defense policy spokeswoman: Open letter to the members of Alliance 90 / The Greens. April 2, 1999
  3. ↑ Financial Times: Angelika Beer and Reinhard Bütikofer: Schwerer Stand ( Memento from December 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (December 6, 2002).
  4. ↑ Statement by Angelika Beer on leaving Alliance 90 / The Greens . (PDF; 104 kB) Website from Angelika Beer.
  5. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt March 30, 2009: Top candidate Trittin: Beer exit incomprehensible.
  6. ↑ Pirate Party Schleswig-Holstein: "Pirate Party welcomes Angelika Beer, a prominent new member" ( Memento from November 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Henning Baethge: Angelika Beer wants to join the state parliament as a pirate ( memento from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) . In: Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , October 11, 2011. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
  8. ↑ State election in Schleswig-Holstein on May 6, 2012. Applicants elected from the state lists (PDF; 39 kB) ( Memento from May 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, accessed on May 7 , 2012 . May 2012
  9. ↑ Sven-Michael Veit: The colors of Angelika Beer. In: taz.de. April 30, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Angelika Beer - "Politics is contagious". Accessed June 4, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of August 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Angelica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and Pirate Party), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel