Birgit Collin-Langen

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Birgit Collin-Langen (born September 4, 1956 in Trier ) is a German politician ( CDU ). She was Lord Mayor of the City of Bingen am Rhein from 1996 to 2012 , and was a member of the European Parliament from 2012 to 2019 .

Life

Collin-Langen studied law in Trier and then worked as a trainee lawyer at the Trier Regional Court . After taking the second state examination in law, she was a consultant at the Ministry of Economics and Transport of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1988 she went to the State Chancellery , where she worked as a legal counsel and was responsible for improving the relationship between citizens and the state. At the beginning of the 1990s she was a research assistant in the parliamentary group of the CDU . In 1993 she moved to the Investment and Structural Bank Rhineland-Palatinate , where she was head of the Human Resources and Legal Department.

On August 1, 1996, Collin-Langen took office as Lord Mayor of the city of Bingen am Rhein. She was state chairwoman of the Women's Union of Rhineland-Palatinate, deputy district chairwoman of the CDU Rheinhessen-Pfalz and a co-opted member of the state board. She was also a member of the 14th Federal Assembly . She was also deputy chairwoman of the Rhineland-Palatinate City Council , vice-president of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities at the Council of Europe and vice-president of the German section of the Council of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe. During the 2011 state election campaign , Collin-Langen was a member of Julia Klöckner's shadow cabinet as Minister for Justice and Home Affairs .

In March 2012, Collin-Langen resigned from her position as Lord Mayor of Bingen as she moved to the European Parliament. She moved up there for Kurt Lechner , who resigned his mandate due to age. In September 2012, the European Parliament lifted the MPs' immunity , as the Koblenz public prosecutor was investigating them on suspicion of corruption in connection with the 2008 State Garden Show in Bingen. The proceedings were closed in September 2013. For the European elections in 2019 , they did not occur again.

Collin-Langen has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fridtjof Nansen Academy for Political Education at the Ingelheim Training Center since 2012 .

On June 18, 2015, after criticism from LobbyControl about her sideline activity as a paid adviser to the energy company RWE , she resigned from this position on the day of the publication of a study by LobbyControl in collaboration with Corporate Europe Observatory and Friends of the Earth Europe . The criticism was sparked by the fact that she represented RWE-friendly positions in the Environment Committee of the European Parliament.

In 2017, Collin-Langen is no longer running for the state chairmanship of the Rhineland-Palatinate Women's Union. Instead, the Bundestag member Ursula Groden-Kranich is elected to the office. For her sixteen years of service, Collin-Langen is appointed honorary chairman by the delegates.

Birgit Collin-Langen is married to the lawyer Jochen Langen. The couple have one son.

Activity in the EU Parliament

Collin-Langen was a member of the Group of the European People's Party , the Christian Democrats. She was a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the Delegation for Relations with India . As a deputy, Collin-Langen was represented in the following committees and delegations: Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs , Committee on Petitions , Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and in the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New German MEP: Birgit Collin-Langen. European Movement Germany, April 30, 2012, accessed April 30, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Suspicion of corruption: Ex-Mayor Collin-Langen exonerated , SWR Landesschau, September 2, 2013
  3. ↑ VRM GmbH & Co KG: Birgit Collin-Langen, MEP from Bingen, announces withdrawal from politics - Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Whose Representatives? MEPs on the industry payroll , A report by Friends of the Earth Europe, Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl. Written and researched by Rachel Tansey. Contributions from Paul de Clerck, Olivier Hoedeman and Nina Katzemich, June 2015 , accessed June 22, 2015
  5. ↑ After criticism, Collin-Langen leaves the RWE Advisory Board , LobbyControl , accessed on June 22, 2015
  6. ^ After criticism from LobbyControl: Birgit Collin-Langen leaves RWE Advisory Board , swr.de , accessed on June 22, 2015
  7. ↑ Ursula Groden-Kranich Member of the Bundestag, new state chairwoman of the Rhineland-Palatinate Women's Union. Ursula Groden-Kranich, March 7, 2017, accessed on July 12, 2017 .
  8. ^ Website of the European Parliament
personal data
SURNAME Collin-Langen, Birgit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collin, Birgit (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH trier