Bettina Jarasch

Bettina Jarasch (2014)

Bettina Jarasch (née Hartmann ; born November 22, 1968 in Augsburg ) is a German politician . From 2013 to 2018 she was a member of the federal board of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and from 2011 to 2016 she was state chairman of the Berlin Greens . She has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since 2016 .

Life

education and profession

Her father is the Augsburg entrepreneur Helmut Hartmann . Jarasch studied philosophy and political science at the Free University of Berlin . She worked as an editor, consultant and author.

Jarasch is married to the journalist Oliver Jarasch and has two children.

politics

From 2000 to 2009 Jarasch worked as an advisor to the green parliamentary group, until 2005 for Christa Nickels and most recently as advisor to the board of Renate Künast . Since 2009 she has been a member of the Berlin state board and spokeswoman for the state working group on education.

Jarasch was elected chairman of the regional association on March 6, 2011 together with Daniel Wesener . She is considered to be a representative of a political movement within the Greens.

Since 2013 she has been an assessor in the federal board of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . Her focus in the green federal executive was family policy and religious policy. She was in charge of the green commission “Religious communities, ideologies and the state”, which the federal board set up in December 2013.

In the election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 2016 , she ran in a top four-person team behind Ramona Pop , Antje Kapek and in front of Daniel Wesener in third place on the state list of her party and was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives through this . In January 2017, she announced her application for the top Berlin candidacy for the 2017 Bundestag election , but was unable to prevail over Lisa Paus (formerly third) in the candidate list for position 1 in March .

Church engagement

Jarasch is chairwoman of the parish council of the Catholic St. Marien-Liebfrauen congregation in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The Central Committee of German Catholics elected her in November 2016 as one of 45 individual personalities. On November 24, 2017, she was elected spokeswoman for the “Basic Political and Ethical Issues” department in the Central Committee.

With eight other personalities - theologians and well-known Catholics - she addressed an open letter to Cardinal Reinhard Marx , which was published on February 3, 2019 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . The signatories called for a "new start with sexual morality" with a "reasonable and fair assessment of homosexuality", "real separation of powers" in the church and the removal of the excesses of the ordination office and its opening up to women. They appealed to the German Bishops' Conference to give diocesan priests the freedom to choose their way of life, "so that celibacy can again credibly refer to the kingdom of heaven".

Web links

Commons : Bettina Jarasch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage
• Profile of Bettina Jarasch at the Berlin Greens
• Biography on the website of the Berlin House of Representatives for the 18th electoral term

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Political career in Berlin ; Augsburger Allgemeine, March 8, 2011
2. ↑ Christine Richter : Berlin Greens take on stuffy subjects. In: Berliner Morgenpost . March 7, 2011 (accessed March 8, 2011).
3. ↑ Berlin's Greens are fighting for first place on the list on tagesspiegel.de, January 25, 2017, accessed November 9, 2017
4. ↑ Berlin Greens: Lisa Paus outclasses Bettina Jarasch on morgenpost.de, March 25, 2017, accessed November 10, 2017
5. ↑ Portrait of Bettina Jarasch as chairwoman of the parish council ( memento from April 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ zdk.de: ZdK elects individual personalities , accessed on February 24, 2017.
7. ↑ zdk.de: ZdK Wahlen spokespersons for the subject areas , accessed on November 24, 2017.
8. ^ "Open letter to Cardinal Marx: Demand for upheaval in the Church" , domradio.de , February 3, 2019.