Barbara Lochbihler

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Barbara Lochbihler (2014)

Barbara Elisabeth Lochbihler (born May 20, 1959 in Obergünzburg ) was General Secretary of the German section of Amnesty International from August 1999 to June 2009 . In the European elections in 2009 she was elected to the European Parliament for Alliance 90 / The Greens . From 2011 to 2014 she was Chair of the Human Rights Committee of the European Parliament. In May 2014 she was re-elected and from July 2014 she was the spokesperson for foreign and human rights policy for the Greens / EFA group. In 2019 she did not run for office anymore and left the European Parliament.

Life

Born in Obergünzburg and raised in Ronsberg , Barbara Lochbihler completed a degree in social pedagogy at the Catholic Foundation University in Munich and a second degree in political science , economics and international law . She was employed as a lecturer at the Munich University of Applied Sciences . From 1984 she took over the management of a municipal evangelical old people's and service center in the Munich district of Haidhausen .

From 1987 to 1991 she was, without having been a party member herself, but as a member of the parliamentary group, parliamentary adviser to the Bavarian Green Party member Eleonore Romberg . During this time she wrote critical works about the former Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss and arms deals. In 1992, Barbara Lochbihler became General Secretary of the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom (German section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ) in Geneva, which has advisory status to the United Nations , and restructured this non-governmental organization . From August 1999 to April 2009, she was the general secretary of the German section of Amnesty International , succeeding Volkmar Deile and predecessor of Monika Lüke .

In the summer of 2008 she announced that she wanted to give up her position at Amnesty International in favor of running for Alliance 90 / The Greens in the 2009 European elections . She joined the party in the Ostallgäu district association and was unanimously nominated by the Swabian district assembly. In June 2009 Barbara Lochbihler was elected to the European Parliament. She belonged to the Greens / EFA group. From October 2011 to June 2014 she was chair of the EP Human Rights Committee. Since July 2014 she has been the spokeswoman for foreign and human rights policy for the Greens / EFA group in the EP. She was Vice-President of the Human Rights Committee and coordinated the Foreign Affairs Committee for the parliamentary group.

She was also chair of the board of trustees of the Human Rights Foundation - Amnesty International Foundation . She is a member of the coordination group of the Human Rights Forum , the Board of Trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights , the Advisory Board of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom (since 1985), the German Society for the United Nations ( DGVN ) as well as supporting member in the German Committee for UNICEF eV

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • No access for refugees. Human rights violations at the EU's external borders. Brochure by Barbara Lochbihler, 2014. Download
  • Allgäu women. A book about the varied living and working worlds of women in this region. Barbara Lochbihler / Sabine Schalm (eds), edition ebersbach, ISBN 978-3-86915-076-5 , 2013, Berlin. Website Allgaeuerinnen
  • Waiting is not an option. Climate change and human rights. Brochure by Barbara Lochbihler. June 2011, download
  • Woman makes change. 15 years of the Beijing World Conference on Women. Irmgard Heilberger (IFFF) and Barbara Lochbihler (Hg), October 2010, read online
  • Bridges to Europe. Challenges for a European Migration and Refugee Policy. In: Robertson von Trotha, Caroline Y. (Ed.): Challenge Democracy. Democratic, parliamentary, good? (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 6), Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-5816-9 .
  • Human rights and the fight against terrorism are not a zero-sum game. In: Robertson von Trotha, Caroline Y. (Ed.): Culture and justice. (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 2), Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-2604-5 .

literature

  • Christian Grimm: The campaigner for human rights, in: Augsburger Allgemeine 2019 / No. 137, p. 5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Come on, let's build the new Europe". In: Website of the Kempten district association, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ From "amnesty" to the European Parliament. In: Allgäuer Zeitung. July 7, 2008, archived from the original on July 10, 2008 ; accessed on June 27, 2019 .

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SURNAME Lochbihler, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lochbihler, Barbara Elisabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Obergünzburg