Birgit Keller

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Birgit Keller as President of the State Parliament (2020)

Birgit Keller (born January 28, 1959 as Birgit Ehrhardt in Lutherstadt Eisleben ) is a German politician ( SED , PDS , Die Linke ). She has been President of the Thuringian State Parliament since November 26, 2019 .

From 2009 to 2012 and again since 2019 a member of the state parliament, she was in the meantime from 2012 to 2014 district administrator in the Nordhausen district . In the Ramelow I cabinet (2014–2019), Keller was Minister for Infrastructure and Agriculture in the Free State of Thuringia.

Life

The father was an economist, the mother a teacher. Both parents were members of the NDPD .

Birgit Keller graduated from the Polytechnic High School in 1975 . After training as an electrician , she worked from 1977 to 1982 as a research assistant in the field of heavy current plant construction. From 1983 to 1988 she completed a distance learning course with a degree in social science .

From 1989 to 1991 she worked as an educator in a kindergarten. Between 1995 and 2004, Keller worked in a constituency office. In 1991 and 2004 she was self-employed.

Birgit Keller is divorced and has two daughters.

politics

In 1977 she joined the SED and worked from 1983 to 1988 on the district leadership of the FDJ , then from 1988 to 1989 on the SED district leadership. In 1989 she sat at a round table as the representative of the SED .

From 1990 to 1992 Keller was a member of the first presidium of the newly founded state association of the PDS Thuringia.

She has been a member of the district council in the Nordhausen district since 1994 and was the district council president from 1996 to 2006. Since 2006 she was chairman of the district parliamentary group of her party. In 2006 she ran for the office of district administrator. Most recently, Keller was confirmed for the district council in the 2019 local elections . She is a member of the Environment, Agriculture and Forestry Committee. In the local elections in 2009 she was elected to the city council of Nordhausen .

MPs

Birgit Keller in May 2011

In the state elections in 1999 , 2004 and 2009 she ran for a direct mandate in the constituency of Nordhausen I , where she was always subject to Egon Primas ( CDU ). In 2009 she was able to enter parliament via the state list of her party, on which she ran in 7th place. She was the budget spokeswoman for her group. In the 2012 district election in the Nordhausen district, she again prevailed in a runoff election against Egon Primas. Thereupon she resigned her seat in the state parliament.

As a direct candidate in the constituency of Nordhausen I , she entered the state parliament with 32.3 percent in the state elections in Thuringia in 2019 . On November 26, 2019, she was elected President of the State Parliament with 52 votes out of 90. She is the first parliamentary speaker of the LINKE in a German state and a born member of the parliament's council of elders.

Minister for Infrastructure and Agriculture

On December 5, 2014, she was appointed Minister for Infrastructure and Agriculture in the Ramelow I cabinet . She thus succeeded Jürgen Reinholz (CDU), who had held the office since 2009. Unlike the other cabinet members, she did not continue in office until February 2020, but resigned from office on November 26, 2019 to become President of Parliament. Since then, Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff (Die Linke) has been in charge of the office.

Web links

Commons : Birgit Keller  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerlinde Sommer: basement on top. Once responsible for agitation, at the "turnaround" in the SED district leadership, now designated President of the State Parliament. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung. November 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ biography. In: Thuringian Parliament. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Election 2019: This is an overview of the new district council. In: nnz-online.de. May 27, 2019, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Challenge to find alternatives. (PDF; 564 KB) In: Thüringer Landtagskurier - Edition 10th Thuringian Landtag, December 2011, p. 4 , accessed on March 25, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Volkhard Paczulla: Women come to power in Thuringia. (No longer available online.) In: Thüringer Allgemeine . May 8, 2012, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  6. ^ New state parliament president in Thuringia: Social bridge builder. In: taz.de . Taz, the daily newspaper publishing cooperative, November 26, 2019, accessed on March 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Birgit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrhardt, Birgit (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED / PDS / Die Linke)
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Lutherstadt Eisleben