Astrid Günther-Schmidt

Astrid Günther-Schmidt (born November 28, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 2004 to 2009 she was a member of the Saxon State Parliament .

Life

Astrid Günther-Schmidt passed her Abitur in 1983 at the business school in Bad Segeberg . From 1983 to 1987 she studied economics at the University of Hamburg and from 1987 to 1990 at the University of Cologne .

In 1991/92 she worked as a lecturer and state-recognized substitute school teacher in the education center for information processing professions in Görlitz and was in the same place from 1993 to 1998 in the city administration as director of the adult education center and as head of further education. During this time she was on parental leave for 3 years. From 1999 to 2001 she worked as a vocational school teacher at the vocational school center for technology in Zittau . In addition to her permanent positions, she also worked as a freelance lecturer from 1995 to 2004.

Astrid Günther-Schmidt is married, Evangelical-Lutheran and has one child.

politics

Since 2002 she has been a member of the Löbau-Zittau district association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , but since 2006 it has been a member of the Görlitz district association . Between 2003 and 2005 she was a member of the state board of the Green Saxony and their education policy spokeswoman.

From 2004 to 2009 she was a member of the Saxon state parliament. It moved into third place on the state list. Within the Parliament, she was a member of the Committee "School and Sport" and once in the Petitions Committee . In addition, she had the task of spokeswoman for education policy for her group.

The priorities described on their homepage are political work for a modern school policy and the fight against right-wing extremism. She combines these two points by being of the opinion that the higher the level of education, the lower the susceptibility to right-wing extremist seduction.

In the state elections in 2009 , she only ran as a direct candidate in the constituency of Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia 2 and missed re-entry into the state parliament.

Web links

• Astrid Günther-Schmidt at the Saxon State Parliament (4th electoral period) ( Memento from September 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )