Birgit Woellert
Birgit Ottilie Wöllert (born December 15, 1950 in Bendorf am Rhein) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). From 2004 to 2013 she was a member of the state parliament of Brandenburg and from 2013 to 2017 a member of the German Bundestag .
Life
Birgit Wöllert was born in Bendorf am Rhein in Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1957 she moved with her parents and two siblings to what was then the GDR , and from there to the Halle district . After attending the Polytechnic Oberschule (POS), Wöllert began studying to become a lower level teacher at the Weissenfels Institute for Teacher Training in 1966 . She then worked as a teacher in the Querfurt district from 1971 to 1979 . She then moved with her family to Spremberg , as they said they followed the "call of copper". This statement can be interpreted in such a way that her husband found work in the Lusatian copper mining . In Spremberg, Wöllert found a job through the FDJ and until 1982 managed the local "House of Pioneers" . In 1982, Wöllert studied for one year at the SED district school in Cottbus and then from 1983 to 1985 she completed an extra-occupational distance learning course in civics at the "Ernst Schneller" University of Education in Zwickau, which she completed as a graduate teacher. From 1983 Wöllert worked again as a teacher and was appointed deputy school director for the school year 1987/88. She then ran a Spremberger POS as director until 1990.
Since the political change , Wöllert has been working as a teacher again, where she studied the second subject of German for secondary level I at the Potsdam University of Education until 1994 in an additional course.
Birgit Wöllert lives in Spremberg. She has been married since 1970 and has a son and a daughter.
politics
Wöllert had been a member of the SED since 1976 and has been involved in local politics for the PDS and its successor parties since the political change in the GDR . She has been a city councilor in Spremberg since 1990, and has also been a parliamentary group leader and committee chairman for education, culture, sport and social affairs in the city council of her place of residence for several years. In 1998 she was also elected to the Spree-Neisse district council and is the second deputy chairwoman of the district council. From 2003 to 2008 she headed the youth welfare committee of the Spree-Neisse district. In the Brandenburg state elections in 2004 , she successfully ran for her party in the Spree-Neisse II constituency , and in 2009 she also succeeded in re-entering the state parliament through a direct mandate. Since November 2007 she has been chairwoman of the Committee on Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Family. In the election to the German Bundestag on September 22, 2013 , she received a mandate from the state list.
During the 18th legislative period of the German Bundestag she was a full member of the Committee on Health , the Petitions Committee and secretary. In 2016, she announced that she would not run as a candidate for the 2017 Bundestag.
literature
- President of the Landtag Brandenburg (ed.): Landtag Brandenburg: Names - Dates - Facts. 4th electoral term 2004–2009. 3. Edition. Potsdam 2007.
Web links
- Own homepage
- Entry on the website of the Brandenburg State Parliament
- Parliamentary documentation Brandenburg (the exact data set must be determined using the search function)
- Biography at the German Bundestag
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Woellert, Birgit |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wöllert, Birgit Ottilie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Die Linke), MdL, MdB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bendorf |