Birgit Diezel

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Birgit Diezel

Birgit Irmgard Diezel (born February 10, 1958 in Greiz ) is a German politician ( CDU ). She was Thuringian Finance Minister from 2002 to 2009 and Deputy Minister-President of Thuringia from 2004 to 2009 . From 2009 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2019 she was President of the Thuringian State Parliament .

Career

Birgit Diezel grew up as the oldest of three siblings in a Christian family home on a farm in Neugernsdorf near Greiz. After completing an apprenticeship as a transport clerk from 1974 to 1976, then working as a financial accountant in Kraftverkehr Greiz until 1980, during which time she had her first child (a daughter) and completed her A-levels in evening school, she studied economics from 1980 to 1984 in hall . In 1985 she had her second child (a son), after maternity leave she worked for the district council in Greiz from 1987 to 1989. She was a member of the Democratic Peasant Party in Germany .

Diezel's political career began in 1990 when she joined the CDU and became a member of its state executive that same year. In 1994 she became a member of the Thuringian state parliament and deputy state chairwoman of her party. Between 1999 and 2002 she was State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministry of Finance. In 2001 she had her third child (a daughter). After Andreas Trautvetter was appointed Thuringian Minister of the Interior, she became Thuringian Minister of Finance in 2002.

In the state elections in 1994 and 1999 , she entered the state parliament with a direct mandate from the Gera II constituency . In 2004 , when she was already state minister, she lost her constituency to Dieter Hausold (PDS), but entered parliament via the CDU state list. After the 2004 election, in addition to her position as Minister of Finance, she became Deputy Prime Minister in the Althaus II cabinet .

After Prime Minister Dieter Althaus had a skiing accident on New Year's Day 2009, she took over the business of government until Althaus recovered and returned on April 20, 2009. In the state elections in 2009 she ran as a direct candidate in the Gera I constituency , where she was defeated by Margit Jung (Die Linke). Once again, she was only able to enter the state parliament via the state list. Until the end of 2009, Diezel was also the deputy chairwoman of the sponsors' meeting of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba).

After Althaus' surprising resignation from the office of Prime Minister on September 3, 2009, Diezel asked her in a personal letter to take over the office, according to Diezel. On September 7th, however, the State Chancellery declared that, in accordance with the Thuringian Constitution, Althaus would continue its official business until a new state government was sworn in. Althaus later stated that he had not transferred the official business to Diezel and that there were no corresponding documents. On Diezel's recommendation, the Thuringian CDU then elected Minister of Social Affairs Christine Lieberknecht as a candidate for the office of Prime Minister. On September 23, Diezel was nominated by the CDU state parliamentary group as the new state parliament president and elected to this office with 70 of 87 votes in the constituent session of the state parliament on September 29, 2009.

In the 2014 state elections , Diezel missed re-entry into the state parliament both as a direct candidate in constituency 41, which Margit Jung won in turn, and in third place on the CDU state list.

Diezel is still deputy chairwoman of the CDU regional association Thuringia. On April 4, 2016, she was elected chairman of the newly formed administrative board of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR).

Since 2003 Birgit Diezel was chairman of the board of the Landesverband Lebenshilfe Thüringen eV After 15 years, she did not run again in May 2019. For her commitment, she received the Golden Badge of Honor from the regional associations of Lebenshilfe Germany .

In 2016, Diezel stated that she was still holding various honorary positions and otherwise focusing on the private sector. She did not comment on the question of whether she was aiming for exposed political functions again. Diezel has had its website deleted.

On December 4, 2018, the Thuringian CDU top candidate for the 2019 European elections , Marion Walsmann , resigned her mandate in the state parliament, which Diezel took over on the following day. After Christian Carius resigned as president of the state parliament and the CDU failed to install Michael Heym as his successor, the CDU state chairman Mike Mohring proposed that Birgit Diezel, who was back in the state parliament, be nominated as state parliament president. While the MPs of the red-red-green government factions rejected Heym as president of the state parliament, they promised Diezel support in their election. On December 12, 2018, she was elected President of the State Parliament.

In the 2019 state elections , Diezel again missed re-entry into the state parliament, although she was in the promising second place on the CDU state list, as her party occupied all 21 parliamentary seats to which she was entitled according to the election result with directly elected members. The state list was therefore not used for the time being.

literature

Web links

Commons : Birgit Diezel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Sven Heitkamp: Skiing accident will change Althaus and Thuringia. Welt Online, January 4, 2009, accessed June 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Helaba: Helaba Annual Report for 2009. (PDF) Archived from the original on June 23, 2011 ; Retrieved on June 10, 2017 (see p. 78: List of Members of the Board of Owners).
  4. ^ Coalition poker began in Erfurt , article in Neues Deutschland
  5. ↑ Althaus plunges CDU into chaos at Bild.de.
  6. ^ Diezel nominated as president , ntv.de, September 23, 2009
  7. ↑ thueringen.de: Thuringia: Landtag is constituted and adopts declaration for tolerance. Retrieved September 29, 2009 .
  8. ↑ President Birgit Diezel, who was elected in Gera, is not currently in the state parliament
  9. ^ CDU Thuringia: State Executive. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 13, 2016 ; accessed on June 10, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Birgit Diezel elected as the new chairwoman. MDR Board of Directors, April 4, 2016, accessed April 4, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Christoph Zippel is the new chairman of Lebenshilfe Thüringen eV - Lebenshilfe Landesverband Thüringen e. V. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Steffen Beikirch: Ex-Landtag President Birgit Dietzel privately in Neugernsdorf: Everything in life has its time. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung. June 10, 2016, accessed June 10, 2017 .
  13. ↑ birgit-diezel.de. Retrieved on June 10, 2017 (only forwards to google.de).
  14. ^ Thuringian parliament: Birgit Diezel succeeds Marion Walsmann. December 4, 2016, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Red-Red-Green rejects Heym as president of the state parliament. November 6, 2016, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Red-Red-Green wants to vote Diezel as president of the state parliament. December 3, 2016, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  17. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: State election in Thuringia 2019 , accessed on October 28, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Diezel, Birgit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diezel, Birgit Irmgard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Greiz