Birgitt Bender

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bärbl Mielich , Daniel Mouratidis and Birgitt Bender (right) 2007

Birgitt Bender (born December 28, 1956 in Düsseldorf ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 2002 to 2013, Bender was the spokesperson for health policy for the green parliamentary group and has been an independent health care consultant ever since.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1975 in Düsseldorf, Birgitt Bender studied law in Cologne , Geneva and Freiburg im Breisgau , which she completed in 1980 with the first state examination in law. After her legal clerkship , she passed the second state examination in 1984. She then became legal advisor or, later, women's adviser to the parliamentary group of the Greens in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . Birgitt Bender is open about her homosexuality.

Political party

Birgitt Bender came to the Greens in the 1980s through her involvement in the women's movement . From 1999 to 2007 she was a member of the party council of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg .

MPs

From 1988 to 2001 Birgitt Bender was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg. From 1988 to 1990 she was chairwoman of the parliamentary group Die Grünen, from 1992 to 2000 deputy parliamentary group chairwoman and from 1992 to 1996 chairwoman of the committee for women, family, further education and the arts.

From 2002 to 2013 she was a member of the German Bundestag and spokeswoman for the Alliance 90 / The Greens parliamentary group for health policy. In this position she emerged as a proponent of anthroposophic medicine , homeopathy and other alternative medicine . From 2002 to 2005 she was also a drug policy spokesperson.

Birgitt Bender has always entered the Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list. For the 2009 Bundestag election she was elected 7th on the state list. For the 2013 Bundestag election she was nominated at number 11 on the state list and was not re-elected.

Memberships

Bender was a member of the European Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag . In addition, she has been deputy state chairwoman of the German Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Baden-Württemberg since 2001 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ vdek - Association of Substitute Funds e. V .: Biggi Bender succeeds Walter Scheller - Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Queer.de: “Eight homos in the new Bundestag” ; September 19, 2005
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel: Relapse into the Middle Ages
  4. ↑ Green Baden-Württemberg ( Memento from December 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ^ Paritätischer Landesverband Baden-Württemberg: Board of Directors. In: paritaet-bw.de. Archived from the original on October 17, 2011 ; Retrieved October 17, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Bender, Birgitt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf