Annette Widmann-Mauz

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Annette Widmann-Mauz (2020)

Annette Widmann-Mauz (née Widmann ; born June 13, 1966 in Tübingen ) is a German politician ( CDU ). Since March 14, 2018, she has been the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration in the Chancellery in the Merkel IV cabinet . Before that, she was parliamentary state secretary at the Federal Minister of Health in the Merkel II and Merkel III cabinets since 2009 . She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998 and has been directly elected in the Tübingen constituency since 2002 . Since 2015 she has been the chairwoman of the Women's Union .

Origin and youth

After High School on school Balingen studied Annette Widmann-Mauz eight years of Politics and Law at the University of Tübingen , but earned no degree. From 1993 to 1998 she was a student assistant on the European Studies Program (ESP) project at the University of Tübingen.

Widmann-Mauz is Catholic and married.

Political party

Widmann-Mauz at the CDU party conference in 2014

In 1984 Annette Widmann became a member of the Junge Union (JU) and the CDU. From 1985 to 1989 she was a member of the JU state executive committee in Baden-Württemberg , from 1986 as deputy state chairwoman.

From 1985 to 2005 she was a member and from 1993 to 2005 deputy chairwoman of the board of the CDU district association Zollernalb . Widmann-Mauz has been a member of the state board of the CDU Baden-Württemberg since 1991 and has been deputy CDU state chairman since 2003. Most recently she was re-elected in 2019 with only 65.9%, which was interpreted as a punishment by the inner-party conservatives.

Since 1995 she has been the state chairwoman of the Women's Union in Baden-Württemberg and since 1999 also deputy chairwoman of the CDU federal committee on women's policy .

At the 25th federal party conference of the CDU in Germany on December 3, 2012, she was elected with 80.84% ​​as a member of the CDU federal executive committee.

MPs and public offices

Widmann-Mauz was a member of the district council of the Zollernalb district from 1999 to 2009 .

She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998 . From 2000 to 2009 she was a member of the executive committee of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. From 2000 to 2005 she was the chairwoman of the women’s group in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and from 2001 to 2002 she was parliamentary group representative for consumer protection and food safety.

Annette Widmann-Mauz was spokesperson for health policy from 2002 to 2009 and, since November 29, 2005, has also been chairwoman of the health working group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

Annette Widmann-Mauz entered the Bundestag in 1998 via the state list of Baden-Württemberg and has always been a directly elected member of the Tübingen constituency since 2002 . In the 2013 Bundestag election she received 46.9% of the first votes after 38.9% in the 2009 Bundestag election . Also in 2013 and 2017 , it moved into the Bundestag with a direct mandate with a result of 46.9% (70,310 votes) and 35.7% (56,448 votes).

Widmann-Mauz is a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag .

Since October 29, 2009 Widmann-Mauz was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Health ( Second Merkel Cabinet , Cabinet Merkel III ). In 2018 Widmann-Mauz was appointed Minister of State for Migration, Refugees and Integration in the Chancellery in the Merkel IV cabinet. In this position, she succeeds the SPD politician Aydan Özoğuz . Widmann-Mauz had previously been traded as a possible health minister; Jens Spahn (CDU) received this ministerial post .

Honorary positions

Widmann-Mauz is the patron of the Children Need Peace Initiative . V. , Hechingen, of Noah's Ark - Friends of Assisted Living, permanent ventilated children e. V. , Tübingen, the Bundesverband Niere e. V. , Berlin, as well as from ZERVITA e. V. , Tübingen. She is a member of the Irma-West-Gemeinschaft e. V. , Hechingen, of the Swabian Dialect Association. V. , Tübingen, the Eugen Bolz Foundation e. V. , Rottenburg, from donum vitae e. V., Bonn, as well as by Ein Hospiz für Tübingen e. V. (as of 2017)

The politician was the patron of the World Medical Congress Homeopathy 2017 and answered a critical request from the information network Homeopathy about her patronage for this event, referring to the importance of "scientific discourse [es] in health care".

criticism

In August 2008 the news magazine Der Spiegel reported that Annette Widmann-Mauz, together with other members of the Bundestag, namely Martina Bunge (Die Linke) as head of the delegation, Hubert Hüppe (CDU), Carola Reimann (SPD), Margrit Spielmann (SPD), Konrad Schily ( FDP) and Birgitt Bender (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), from the Health Committee in May 2008 on a business trip to Canada and California, mainly pursued leisure activities. The basis of the article, which was picked up by other well-known newspapers, was a "fire letter" from the German Consul General of San Francisco Rolf Schütte to the Foreign Office, in which he complained about the behavior of the MPs. Furthermore, the parliamentarians had given two US committee chairmen a short notice and instead visited San Francisco. To justify this, Annette Widmann-Mauz stated that the delegation had only been assured of discussions with members of parliament. However, the delegation attached importance to "equal eye level".

In a joint statement, the travel participants rejected the representation of the mirror. The members had behaved correctly and appropriately, the article presented facts in a distorting and tendentious manner. Legally, however, the representation of the news magazine Der Spiegel was unsuccessful .

In December 2018, Widmann-Mauz used official Christmas cards in her function as integration commissioner for the federal government, in which the word " Christmas " was omitted. In return, it received heavy criticism from many quarters, including from Sevim Dagdelen , deputy group leader of the Left, and the Islam expert Ahmad Mansour , who criticized the lack of religious self-confidence. The CDU MP Sylvia Pantel criticized whoever sent such a Christmas card had to be “asked what values ​​he stands for”. What was particularly irritating was that Widmann-Mauz had no problem in the past with explicit congratulations, for example on the Jewish festival of lights Hanukkah or on Islamic Ramadan . It later emerged that the criticized card was intended specifically for journalists and Widmann-Mauz also sent a second card containing Christmas wishes to colleagues in the Bundestag, friends in the CDU, churches and religious communities, among others.

Web links

Commons : Annette Widmann-Mauz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.frauenunion.de/-aktuelle/1945-annette-widmann-mauz-ist-neue-vorsitzende-der-frauen-union-der-cdu.html
  2. Markus Wehner : Top German politicians disguise their dropouts . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , May 26, 2013, accessed on May 26, 2013.
  3. Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.widmann-mauz.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.widmann-mauz.de
  4. ^ Nico Pointner: Strobl's re-election with a blemish. In: RNZ.de (Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung). May 4, 2019, accessed September 14, 2019 .
  5. a b Dinah Riese: In Merkel's footsteps. In: taz.de. July 16, 2019, accessed September 14, 2019 .
  6. Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeswahlleiter.de
  7. The Tübingen member of the Bundestag is to be responsible for integration in the future . In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt . February 25, 2018 ( tagblatt.de ).
  8. Functions , Widmann-Mauz website; accessed November 4, 2017.
  9. ^ Parl. State Secretary Widmann-Mauz replies to our open letter , Information Network Homeopathy, February 15, 2017; accessed November 4, 2017.
  10. MPs: Negroes wanted (Spiegel Online) , August 18, 2008.
  11. work or leisure? USA business trip becomes a disgrace for politicians , Welt Online, August 19, 2008.
  12. German MP's accused of racial slur on US 'junket' , Telegraph, August 20, 2008.
  13. ^ German MPs in racism row on US trip , The Independent, August 20, 2008.
  14. German envoy attacks MPs for bad behavior on US junket , The Guardian, August 20, 2008.
  15. Answer by Annette Widmann-Mauz , parliament watch.de , August 20, 2008.
  16. ^ Post from the Chancellery: CDU politician leaves out "Christmas" in the greeting card. In: Nordkurier.de. December 19, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  17. Greetings from the integration officer without the word "Christmas". Accessed December 31, 2018 .
  18. Matthias Korfmann: Christmas cards without "Christmas"? Laschet speaks plain text. December 19, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  19. A Christmas card without a "Christmas" - integration officer in the crossfire of criticism. December 19, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  20. Word for Christmas: Bishop Abromeit warns against misunderstood consideration. In: Nordkurier.de. December 24, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 .