Annemarie Lütkes

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Annemarie Lütkes (born June 24, 1948 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German lawyer and politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 2000 to 2005 she was Minister for Justice, Women, Youth and Family and Deputy Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein . From 2010 to 2017 she served as district president in the administrative district of Dusseldorf . In the red-red-green minority government in Thuringia, Lütkes is to become Minister for Justice and Citizen Participation.

Life and work

After graduating from high school , Lütkes studied law in Cologne . She was admitted to the bar in 1977 . She is a specialist lawyer for family law . After retiring from politics, she worked as a lawyer in Cologne again from June 2006 until her appointment as district president.

Annemarie Lütkes is married.

Political party

She has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 1990. In 1999 she was the Green candidate for the office of Lord Mayor of Cologne . In the runoff election she was defeated by CDU candidate Harry Blum with 45.2% of the vote .

As a candidate of the Greens for the office of District Administrator in the Schleswig-Flensburg district , Lütkes received 12.2% of the votes cast in May 2006.

From 2010 to 2014 Anne Lütkes was chairwoman of the Cologne Greens together with Katharina Dröge.

MPs

From 1989 to 1999 Annemarie Lütkes was party leader of the Greens in the Cologne city council.

From 2005 until the resignation of her mandate on May 30, 2006, she was a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein and chairwoman of the Greens parliamentary group .

Public offices

From 1999 to 2000 Lütkes was mayor of the city of Cologne.

On March 28, 2000, she was appointed to the state government led by Heide Simonis as Minister for Justice, Women, Youth and Family and at the same time Deputy Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein. In the election campaign for the state elections in February 2005, she was held responsible for the escape of prisoner Christian Bogner on October 26, 2004 from the Lübeck correctional facility and his subsequent murder of a gardener. Lütkes rejected requests to resign, even though, according to the police union , her ministry had long been informed about security deficits due to staff shortages in the prison concerned. The case sparked as she instead initiated disciplinary investigations against prison staff.

Since the unsuccessful re-election of Heide Simonis on March 17, 2005, she has only been in office in an executive position. After the subsequent formation of a grand coalition and the election of Peter Harry Carstensen ( CDU ) as prime minister, she left the state government on April 27, 2005.

On April 11, 2008, Lütkes was elected Treasurer of UNICEF Germany after she had been a member of the German Committee for UNICEF since 2003. She is also the Vice President of the German Children's Fund .

On July 21, 2010, she was appointed as the successor to Düsseldorf's District President Jürgen Büssow (SPD). By order of August 17, 2010, she took office the following day. She retired on August 30, 2017.

In the red-red-green minority government in Thuringia, Lütkes is to become Minister for Justice and Citizen Participation.

cabinet

Individual evidence

  1. a b Thüringer Allgemeine: Greens name Anja Siegesmund and Anne Lütkes as ministers. February 3, 2020, accessed on February 4, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ Anne Lütkes' curriculum vitae in tabular form ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Matthias Pesch: Assembly in Altenberger Hof: Greens elect new party leaders. October 20, 2014, accessed on February 4, 2020 (German).
  4. http://www.wdr.de/themen/kurzmeldung/2010/07/16/neue_chefs_der_bezirksregierungen.jhtml?rubrikenstyle=politik (link not available)
  5. Anne Lütkes takes on new office as Düsseldorf District President ( Memento from September 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. Handover to the Düsseldorf District Government, press release of the Düsseldorf District Government of August 30, 2017, accessed on October 11, 2017.

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