Britta Stark

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Britta Stark (2016)

Britta Stark , b. Schelling (* 12. May 1963 in Bernau bei Berlin ) is a German politician of the SPD and was a Member of the Parliament of Brandenburg . From 2014 to 2019 she was President of the State Parliament.

Life and work

After her school career, Britta Stark completed vocational training as a technical draftswoman from 1979 to 1981 and worked in this profession from 1981 to 1984. During this time, she also completed a technical training in mechanical engineering at the SKET engineering school and graduated as a mechanical component designer. From 1984 to 1989 she worked in the profession she had learned. After the reunification she changed her occupation and from 1990 to 1991 was a government representative and head of the district administration authority in Frankfurt (Oder) and from 1999 to 2001 an administrative employee . Afterwards she was an administrative officer until 2002. She is a Protestant, married and has two children.

Political commitment

Britta Stark has been a member of the SPD since 1989. Within her party, she was chairwoman of the SPD district association in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1989 to 1990 and a member of the SPD state executive from 1990 to 1992. In terms of local politics , she was a member of the municipal council of Zepernick as honorary mayor from 1998 to 2002 . In the course of the municipal reform in 2002, she took over the office of mayor of Zepernick and became chairwoman of the Panketal municipal council . Since 2008 she has also been a member of the Barnim district council and as such 1st deputy chairwoman and since 2009 a member of the supervisory board of Bernimer Busgesellschaft.

In 1990 and 1994 she won a direct mandate for the Brandenburg state parliament . In the third electoral term, on November 14, 2002, she succeeded MP Manfred Stolpe . He switched to federal politics and became Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing . Stark represented constituency 14 Barnim II in the state parliament . For her group , she has been a member of the Home Affairs Committee throughout her time in Parliament . There she took over the chairmanship in the second electoral term (1994 to 1999) and since 2009. From 1994 to 1999 she also sat on the main and petitions committee . She sat on the Committee on Budgetary Control from April to October 2004 and as a full member since 2009. From 2004 to 2009 she was also a member of the Presidium of the State Parliament. From 2009 to 2014, Stark served as chairwoman of the Parliamentary Control Commission and was domestic policy spokeswoman and member of the parliamentary committee of the SPD parliamentary group. The state parliament elected her as its president on October 8, 2014.

In the state elections in Brandenburg on September 1, 2019, she lost her direct mandate to the free voter candidate Péter Vida . Because of the high number of direct seats in the SPD, she was also unable to enter the state parliament via the list.

In addition to her partisan work, she is a member of the supervisory board of the Hope Valley Lobetal Foundation .

Web links

Commons : Britta Stark  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. Andrea Everwien and Sabine Tzitschke: Designated Brandenburg Court of Auditors under pressure. RBB “Klartext”, December 6, 2006, accessed on October 28, 2009 .
  2. https://www.merkur.de/politik/bvb-frei-waehler-bei-brandenburg-wahl-direktmandat-fuer-p-ter-vida-zr-12929090.html accessed on September 2, 2019
  3. https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/start/presse/~02-09-2019-nachlese-landtagswahl-2019