Bärbel Schäfer (District President)

Bärbel Schäfer at the opening of the ZMF 2018 in Freiburg

Bärbel Schäfer (born March 6, 1958 in Geislingen an der Steige ) is a German lawyer . Since April 1, 2012, she has been the district president of the Baden-Württemberg government district of Freiburg . She does not belong to any party.

Life

After graduating from the Helfenstein-Gymnasium in Geislingen, Bärbel Schäfer studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg from 1978 to 1982 . She completed her legal clerkship from 1983 in the regional court district of Freiburg and graduated in 1985 with the second state examination. She then worked from 1986 to 1988 as an independent lawyer in the Freiburg office community de Witt. From 1987 to 1990 she held a teaching position at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Kehl .

From 1988 Schäfer was a legal assistant in the legal office of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau , from 1990 its deputy head; In 1992 she was elected office manager (leading city law director). She was a member of the Legal and Constitutional Committee of the Baden-Württemberg Association of Cities and the “Public Institutions” working group of the Association of German Cities . Since 2006 she has also been a trainer for “interest-oriented negotiation according to the Harvard concept ”.

On February 28, 2012, the green-red state government decided, on the proposal of Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann , to put the previous district president Julian Würtenberger ( CDU member) into temporary retirement and appointed Schäfer as his successor with effect from April 1, 2012. She is the first woman to head the agency.

Bärbel Schäfer is married and has two children.

Web links

• Simone Lutz: District President Schäfer: The woman for the basics , Badische Zeitung , April 3, 2012
• Stefan Hupka: Bärbel Schäfer comes out as "Green District President" , Badische Zeitung, April 5, 2012