Aygül Özkan

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Aygül Özkan (2013)

Aygül Özkan (born August 27, 1971 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( CDU ) of Turkish descent. From April 27, 2010 to February 19, 2013 she was Minister for Social Affairs, Women, Family, Health and Integration in Lower Saxony .

Life

Aygül Özkan is the daughter of a guest worker who immigrated to Hamburg from Ankara in December 1963 , who after five years of work for the German Federal Post Office set up a tailor-made alteration shop and brought his wife back from Turkey. She attended the Allee grammar school , where she graduated from high school in 1990 . When she was 18, while she was still in school, she decided to become a German citizen . She began studying law with a focus on European and commercial law at the University of Hamburg . After the 1st state examination, he did a legal clerkship in Lower Saxony from 1995 to 1997 , including positions at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the European Parliament in Brussels. She passed the second state examination and has been a licensed attorney at the Hamburg Regional Court since 1998 . Özkan completed a trainee program for young executives at Deutsche Telekom from 1998 to 1999 , to which she remained professionally connected over the next few years. In 2004 she took over the management of business customer sales north at T-Mobile , then moved to the logistics company TNT Post Deutschland as branch manager and built up its Hamburg branch - with around 5,400 employees. She supported the establishment of a works council at the site and the conclusion of a company wage agreement between TNT Post Germany and the Christian Union for Post Service and Telecommunications ( CGPT ) in 2008. At the end of 2007, the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs declared a minimum postage wage for mail carriers in Amount of 9.80 euros for generally binding. This minimum wage was negotiated by the Ver.di union and the Post Services Employers' Association, which is dominated by Deutsche Post, to the exclusion of competitors. TNT Post and other letter services filed a lawsuit against the extension of the Post minimum wage to employers who were already bound by collective bargaining agreements. The Federal Administrative Court ruled on 28 January 2010 in the last instance, that the post-minimum merit order was void.

Since 2010, Ms. Özkan has been a member of the federal board of the CDU Economic Council and a member of the regional board of the Hamburg Economic Council. Since 2010 she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . She has also been supporting the foundation's work since 2010 as a member of the foundation board of the "Lebendige Stadt" foundation, chaired by Alexander Otto, and is a member of the board of trustees of the " Haus Rissen " foundation .

Ms. Özkan is a founding member of the Hamburg employers' associations, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Turkish Unternehmer und Gründers eV (ATU) and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Independent Migranten e. V. (ASM), which she headed from 1998 to 2010. She is also a founding member and board member of the Hamburg Foundation for Migrants, which aims to support young people and entrepreneurs with a migration background in their professional development. Since 2010 she has also been a board member of the Association of the Migrant Economy (VMW eV).

Aygül Özkan is the mother of one son. She brings up her son bilingual and "bicultural" with the "best of both worlds".

In December 2011, Aygül Özkan received an email with xenophobic and threatening content that pointed to a video on the Internet. The video, in which deportations are advocated and the Hitler salute is shown, came from the right-wing extremist group Besseres Hannover . The State Security Department of the police headquarters in Hannover identified the sender, against because of showing the Hitler salute in the video a criminal investigation on suspicion of unconstitutional organizations use of the labels is performed. It was the head of the group, a former chairman of the NPD in Hanover.

politics

Aygül Özkan joined the CDU in 2004 and was involved from 2004 to 2008 as a member of the deputation of the Ministry of Economics and Labor. In the Hamburg state election in 2008 , she entered the state via the state list . In March 2008 she became chair of the economic committee, specialist spokesperson for economy and industry of her group and sat on the social and equality committee.

On June 28, 2008 she was elected deputy chairwoman of the CDU regional association in Hamburg. She was committed to the integration of young people with a migration background.

On April 27, 2010, Özkan was appointed as the successor to Mechthild Ross-Luttmann as Minister for Social Affairs, Women, Family, Health and Integration in Lower Saxony . This was the first time that a woman with a migration background and a Muslim belief became State Minister in Germany. Compared to the previous structure , the ministry has been expanded to include the area of integration , which was previously part of the ministerial department of Interior Minister Uwe Schünemann . Prime Minister Christian Wulff declared that Ms. Özkan should "compensate for the serious mistakes that have been made for years in integration policy" . On April 27, 2010, Özkan appointed Heiner Pott as State Secretary in their ministry.

Özkan's appointment met with a great and positive response in Germany and Turkey. The Turkish foreign politician Yaşar Yakış said she was showing the Turks living in Germany that they could make it to the highest positions.

As Lower Saxony's health minister, Özkan initiated the development and establishment of the innovative approach of health regions together with health insurance companies , the medical association , the hospital society, self-governing bodies and municipalities to test new and sustainable models of health care. In 2011, Aygül Özkan launched a care pact with three focal points, such as financial support for apprenticeships in geriatric care, subsidies for school fees for geriatric care students at private geriatric care schools, and funding for retraining for geriatric care in the third year of training.

Özkan left the ministerial office on February 19, 2013 because the CDU lost the state elections. Although she ran for the state election in Lower Saxony in 2013 as a direct candidate of the CDU in the Hanover-Mitte state electoral district and took third place on the CDU's state list in this election, Aygül Özkan surprisingly did not win a seat in the Lower Saxony state parliament , as Michael Höntsch ( SPD ) was the direct mandate in her constituency won and the CDU Lower Saxony could not win mandates on the state list because of its poor second vote result . However, on March 26, 2014, she replaced the resigned MP David McAllister in the state parliament and became a member of the Committee on Science and Culture and a deputy member of the Committee on Economy, Labor and Transport.

On July 11, 2014, Özkan announced that she was giving up her parliamentary mandate on July 22, in order to take over the management of DB Kredit Service in Berlin, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank , from August 1 . Heidemarie Mundlos moves up for them in the state parliament.

On August 19, 2018, the board of the CDU Hamburg announced that it wanted to nominate Özkan as the top candidate for the 2020 mayor election. However, Özkan declined to run because of illness.

Social and Migration Policy

Aygül Özkan (2012)

Aygül Özkan sat for early childhood education one of migrant children and campaigned for their parents that they their children early in the day care center to send (Kita). She also worked to ensure that young migrants find an apprenticeship position and that entrepreneurs with the same background train young people. “Integration works best through the labor market” . In an interview, Özkan demanded more judges with a migration background "so that those affected can see that it is not a foreign authority that decides here, but that we also belong there." Based on the 1995 crucifix ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court, she demanded that classrooms at state compulsory schools free of religious symbols: “The school should be a neutral place. (...) Christian symbols do not belong in state schools. ”A child must be able to decide for himself how to orientate himself religiously. That is why headscarves “have no place in the classroom”.

criticism

The then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Christian Wulff , said in this matter: "In Lower Saxony, Christian symbols, especially crosses in schools, are welcomed by the state government in the sense of a tolerant upbringing based on Christian values". For reasons of religious freedom, headscarves are also tolerated for schoolgirls - but not for teachers, which Özkan also meant: "Ms. Özkan has expressed her personal opinion on ideological neutrality, but she does not question the practice in Lower Saxony." Wulff also criticized overreactions Özkan's crucifix utterances and rejected calls for the minister to resign with the words: “Perhaps some men fear the downfall of the Christian West with the appointment of the first Muslim woman as minister in Germany”.

Özkan himself made it clear to the CDU parliamentary group and in a statement to the Lower Saxony state parliament that she had given the controversial interview prematurely and “in ignorance of the practice in Lower Saxony” .

In July 2010 Özkan presented her plans for a “Media Charter for Lower Saxony” as part of her integration pact. In this, journalists should voluntarily commit themselves to a “culturally sensitive” language, “sustainable support” of the integration process in Lower Saxony and the initiation and support of projects to promote integration. The draft sent by email to journalists from Lower Saxony was criticized and rejected by the German Association of Journalists and the Lower Saxony SPD parliamentary group as censorship and attempted influence. Özkan replied that it was only a "first possible basis for discussion", which should not affect the independence of the media . Özkan finally withdrew from their project after Prime Minister David McAllister made it clear that the Lower Saxony State Chancellery and not the Ministry of Social Affairs was responsible for media policy in the Lower Saxony state government ; He said: "We have all learned from it and will do everything we can to ensure that such a mistake is not repeated." For him, freedom of the press is particularly important.

See also

Web links

Commons : Aygül Özkan  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt April 21, 2010: Aygül Özkan .... the minister's father has been working as a tailor in Altona for 42 years
  2. ^ NDR April 20, 2010: Minister with a migration background ( Memento from April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Aygül Özkan / Homepage / Personal Vita ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2010 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.aygueloezkan.de
  4. ^ Christian Union of Postal Service and Telecommunications . In: Wikipedia . September 19, 2019 ( wikipedia.org [accessed March 13, 2020]).
  5. ↑ TNT Post Germany - press release January 12, 2006: TNT Post creates 400 new jobs in Hamburg
  6. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt November 26, 2005: On the person: Aygül Özkan
  7. ↑ CGPT achieves entry-level wages of EUR 8.50 with mail service provider - new general and house collective agreements for TNT Post and Postcon - CGB. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Dispute over minimum wages: Verdi allegedly helped postal union . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 13, 2020]).
  9. ^ Lawyer Dr Martin Hensche, specialist lawyer for labor law, HENSCHE lawyers, specialist lawyers for labor law: BVerwG, judgment of October 28, 2010, 8 C 19.09 - HENSCHE labor law. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Caspar Dohmen: Post minimum wage is illegal. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  11. ↑ TIMETOACT Software & Consulting GmbH: Economic Council: Ole von Beust, Aygül Özkan and Rene S. Spiegelberger in the federal board and Dr. Henneke Lütgerath elected to the Presidium. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (German).
  12. ^ Kuratorium - Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV Accessed on March 13, 2020 .
  13. ↑ The Living City Foundation. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  14. ↑ HOUSE TEARS - The Executive Board and Board of Trustees. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  15. ↑ ATU homepage
  16. ↑ Information about the Association of Independent Migrants. Accessed on March 13, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Hamburg Foundation for Migrants - Aygül Özkan. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Scholl: The VMW. In: VMW. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (German).
  19. ^ Welt-Online April 19, 2010: Aygül Özkan. Germany's first woman minister of Turkish origin
  20. ^ Christian Tenbrock: colleague immigrant . World in motion. In: Die Zeit, September 29, 2006 .
  21. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of December 20, 2011
  22. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from December 19, 2011
  23. ↑ Aygül Özkan / Homepage / Politische Vita ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2010 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.aygueloezkan.de
  24. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt April 21, 2010: Aygül Özkan: The woman who lives modern politics
  25. ↑ Lower Saxony State Chancellery / press information from April 19, 2010: Lower Saxony sets the course for 2020. Changes in four ministries.
  26. ^ Spiegel Online: Turbo career of a German-Turkish woman. Allow me, Minister Özkan
  27. ^ Robert von Lucius: Cabinet reshuffle in Lower Saxony. Muslim becomes a minister . In: faz.net April 19, 2010 .
  28. ^ A b Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung April 19, 2010: The first woman minister of Turkish origin. Aygül Özkan will be the new Minister of Social Affairs and Integration ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.haz.de
  29. ^ Ministry for Social Affairs, Women, Family, Health and Integration in Lower Saxony - State Secretary Heiner Pott
  30. ↑ Turkey welcomes Minister Özkan , Spiegel Online from April 20, 2010.
  31. ↑ Özkan: "Make medical requirements planning smaller and more flexible". Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Özkan sees a turnaround in care for the elderly. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  33. ^ Deutscher Ärzteverlag GmbH, editorial office of Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Nursing pact for Lower Saxony agreed. November 7, 2011, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  34. ↑ CDU saves top people to safe places ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). NDR 1 Lower Saxony, November 3, 2012.
  35. ↑ Missed entry into parliament - no plan B for Aygül Özkan . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. January 21, 2013.
  36. ↑ Aygül Özkan resigns from office . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. July 11, 2014.
  37. ↑ Jana Werner: Citizenship election 2020: Aygül Özkan should be CDU top candidate . In: THE WORLD . August 19, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed August 19, 2018]).
  38. ↑ Rejection to Hamburg CDU: Özkan does not run. In: NDR.de. October 14, 2018, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  39. ↑ Future Minister of Social Affairs Özkan calls for "programs for children and young people with a migration background" : NDR.de. April 21, 2010.
  40. ^ New minister in Hanover. In: Welt Online. April 23, 2010.
  41. ^ Hubert Gude, Ansgar Siemens: Germany: "Both sides are required" . In: Focus . No. 17, April 26, 2010.
  42. ↑ Crucifix dispute. Wulff distances himself from the new Minister Özkan. In: Welt-Online. April 25, 2010.
  43. ↑ Wulff complains about overreaction in the crucifix dispute. ( Memento from April 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at: tagesschau.de , April 27, 2010, accessed March 18, 2011.
  44. ↑ CDU Lower Saxony: Current information on the crucifix debate. Here: Declaration by Aygül Ozkan in the Lower Saxony state parliament on March 29, 2010 / pdf ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2010 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.cdu-niedersachsen.de
  45. ^ Spiegel-Online April 26, 2010: CDU Minister of Turkish origin. Dismantling a model migrant
  46. ↑ Help, this Muslim woman is not a Christian at all! In: Welt-Online . April 26, 2010.
  47. ↑ zeit.de quotes the minister as follows : "In this respect I understand the irritation and would like to make it clear: Nothing is further from me than touching the independence of the media in any way." and publishes the full text of Aygül Özkan's "Media Charter"
  48. ^ Minister Özkan wants to get the media on track , Spiegel Online , July 23, 2010.
  49. ↑ A model woman falls. In: Spiegel Online. August 2, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Özkan, Aygül
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg