Anne Spiegel

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Anne Spiegel

Anne Spiegel (born December 15, 1980 in Leimen (Baden) ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). She has been Minister for Family, Women, Youth, Integration and Consumer Protection in Rhineland-Palatinate since May 18, 2016 .

Education, work and family

Anne Spiegel has, among other things, Italian ancestors, her maternal grandmother comes from Sicily . Spiegel grew up in Speyer and Ludwigshafen am Rhein , attended the Albert Schweitzer elementary school there and graduated from the Heinrich Böll grammar school there in 2000 . She then studied politics, philosophy and psychology in Darmstadt , Mainz , Mannheim and Salamanca until 2007 . In spring 2007 she graduated as Magistra Artium from the University of Mainz. After completing her MA, she worked as a language teacher at Berlitz in Mainz , Mannheim and Heidelberg from 2008 to 2010 . Spiegel lives in Speyer with her husband, a Scot , and four children.

politics

Spiegel was a member of the state board of the Green Youth of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1999 to 2002 , including two years as board spokeswoman. After that she was a member of the federal executive committee of the Green Youth until 2004.

In 2005 Anne Spiegel was the first German youth delegate to the United Nations . In autumn 2005 she represented young people from the Federal Republic of Germany at the General Assembly of the United Nations, where she also met the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan .

Member of the state parliament

In the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2006 she was a direct candidate in the constituency of Ludwigshafen am Rhein II and on list position 7 of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Rhineland-Palatinate, but was not elected because the Greens failed at the 5% hurdle.

In the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2011 , she was elected as a member of the state parliament. She was a candidate in the Speyer constituency . Anne Spiegel received 17.1% of the constituency vote. You can enter the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament via the list (3rd place on the list) from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Rheinland-Pfalz . There she was elected deputy group leader. The parliamentary group confirmed her in this office halfway through the legislature. She was the spokesperson for women, integration, migration and refugee policy. She was also a member of the Committee for Equality and the Advancement of Women, the Committee for Integration, Children, Family and Youth and the Interim Committee. She was deputy in the committee for social policy and the council of elders as well as in the study commission for citizen participation.

In the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2016 , she was again a direct candidate in the Speyer constituency , where she achieved 10.4% of the constituency votes. As in 2011, Spiegel moved into the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament via the list (3rd place on the list) of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . In the Dreyer II cabinet she was sworn in as Minister for Family, Women, Youth, Integration and Consumer Protection . On May 18, 2016, Spiegel resigned from her state parliament mandate. Her successor was Pia Schellhammer .

Minister for Family, Women, Youth, Integration and Consumer Protection

After resigning from her mandate, Anne Spiegel was appointed Minister for Family, Women, Youth, Integration and Consumer Protection in the Dreyer II cabinet. Her predecessor Irene Alt had already campaigned for the opening of marriage. Anne Spiegel took on the task and campaigned for a vote in the Bundestag. Among other things, she wrote a protest letter from the Federal Council to Norbert Lammert , then President of the Bundestag, in November 2016 . The Rhineland-Palatinate initiatives ultimately led to marriage being opened to same-sex couples in the summer of 2017.

As a minister, she became the first minister in Rhineland-Palatinate to go on maternity leave in April 2018 to give birth to her fourth child. Spiegel took her baby to a meeting of the Federal Council in November 2018 .

In November 2018 she represented the Federal Government at the Women MPs Conference on the subject of “100 years of women's suffrage” in London. There she also met the then British Prime Minister Theresa May . Spiegel asked them to refrain from Brexit .

Anne Spiegel chairs the Conference of Consumer Protection Ministers (VSMK) 2019 and the Conference of the Conference of Equal Opportunities and Women Ministers of the Länder (GFMK) 2019.

In 2019, the VSMK dealt with algorithms and food labeling. Spiegel spoke out in favor of the food traffic light ( Nutri-Score ). Spiegel also called for algorithms to be better controlled. According to Spiegel, algorithms decide, for example, about creditworthiness and product recommendations. They are prone to abuse and error and can lead to discriminatory decisions.

This year, the GFMK wrote an appeal against sexism at the instigation of the chairwoman minister for women, Anne Spiegel. Further topics of the GFMK were sexism in advertising, in the workplace of authorities and with violent attacks made possible by the administration of knockout drops.

Web links

Commons : Anne Spiegel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Markus Lachmann: Minister with Sicilian roots. Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main , June 25, 2016, accessed on November 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Editor: The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 . Wiesbaden 2016.
  3. ^ Anne Spiegel: Biography. Ministry for Family, Women, Youth, Integration and Consumer Protection of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , January 12, 2017, accessed on January 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Former youth delegates at jugenddelegierte.de. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ ZWD: Spiegel focuses on eliminating gender-specific discrimination in the world of work. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate: Biography of departed MPs. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ - marriage for all. Retrieved September 18, 2019 (German).
  8. ^ "Cheekiness towards the lesbians and gays in Germany". Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ VRM GmbH & Co KG: Marriage for All: Bundestag votes on bill that comes from Rhineland-Palatinate - Bürstädter Zeitung. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Florian Schlecht: State politics: Portrait: Integration Minister Anne Spiegel returns to state politics after maternity leave. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  11. ↑ WELT: Family Minister Spiegel with baby at Federal Council meeting . October 19, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed September 18, 2019]).
  12. ^ VRM GmbH & Co KG: Rhineland-Palatinate Minister Anne Spiegel in 10 Downing Street - Wormser Zeitung. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  13. ↑ VSMK: VSMK. VSMK, May 24, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .
  14. ↑ GFMK: GFMK. In: GFMK. GFMK, June 21, 2019, accessed on September 18, 2019 .
  15. ↑ MFFJIV: Food labeling. In: MFFJIV. MFFJIV, May 24, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Consumers ministers advise on food labeling. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Consumer protection ministers discuss food traffic lights. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  18. ↑ ZWD: Women Ministers position themselves against sexism. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Women's Ministers' Conference in Deidesheim agrees an appeal against sexism. In: MFFJIV. MFFJIV, June 21, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Spiegel, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Glue