Canan Bayram

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Canan Bayram (2017)

Canan Bayram (born February 11, 1966 in Malatya , Turkey ) is a German lawyer and politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , formerly SPD ) of Kurdish-Turkish descent and a former member of the Berlin House of Representatives . In 2017, she was directly elected to the 19th German Bundestag in Bundestag constituency 83 . She is the only member of the Bundestag of her party who currently holds a direct mandate.

Life

Bayram grew up in Nettetal and Brüggen on the Lower Rhine and completed a commercial apprenticeship there. Later she passed the Abitur at an evening grammar school in Bonn and studied politics and law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and finished her studies with the first legal state examination . After her legal clerkship and the second state examination, she worked as an employed lawyer in various federal ministries . Since 2003 she has been an independent lawyer in Berlin-Friedrichshain , specializing in labor law and family law .

Bayram is single and has one child.

politics

Canan Bayram joined the SPD in 1999 . There she was a member of the board of the Working Group of Social Democratic Women in Berlin and of the specialist committee for internal affairs and law. She was a state party congress delegate and a member of the departmental and district executive committee of the SPD. In 2006 she moved into the Berlin House of Representatives as a direct candidate for the Berlin-Friedrichshain district . She ran for the first time in Berlin and won the electoral district with 28%. She was the spokeswoman for women's policy for the SPD parliamentary group and a member of the committees for the protection of the constitution, internal affairs, security and order, as well as the committee for economics, technology and women. On May 4, 2009, she left the SPD and applied for membership in the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. The Friedrichshain / Kreuzberg district association of the Greens also confirmed their change of party on May 5, 2009.

In the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2011 and 2016, she was directly re-elected in the constituency of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg 5 . She is the spokesperson for migration, integration and refugee policy as well as the spokesperson for legal policy in her parliamentary group. She is also a member of the committees for integration, labor, vocational training and social affairs as well as the committee for home affairs, security and order and the committee for law, constitutional affairs, consumer protection and anti-discrimination. Her political priorities are labor market policy, family policy as well as domestic and legal policy.

In the conflict over Rigaer Strasse , Bayram criticized the Berlin police after residents complained about the massive police presence. For her statement that "[the] police are harassing local residents," she was criticized in part from within her own party.

Canan Bayram first became known to a larger nationwide public through the federal delegates' conference of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen from June 16 to 18, 2017 in Berlin . There, in her welcoming speech, she sharply criticized the top candidates of the Greens, Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Cem Özdemir, who were part of the realpolitik camp .

In the 2017 federal election , Bayram won a direct mandate in the 83rd constituency . Like her predecessor Ströbele, she will be the only member of the Green parliamentary group to vote in the Bundestag with the first votes from her constituency. She announced this candidacy to succeed Hans-Christian Ströbele (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) on February 28, 2017 of her party. On March 11th, Canan Bayram was nominated by a large majority as the successor to Hans-Christian Ströbele by a constituency meeting of the Green District Associations Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Pankow. Bayram stands up for the interests of tenants and criticizes international real estate funds that are only interested in returns. Their aim is that they can be expropriated if necessary. Bayram spoke out against a Jamaica coalition at the federal level after the 2017 federal election . On December 31, 2017, Bayram resigned from the Berlin House of Representatives.

Further memberships

Bayram is a member of the Network of Berlin Lawyers Against Discrimination and of the Association for the Promotion of Transcultural Education . It supports initiatives and local associations in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. She is also a member of the German Association of Women Lawyers and the German Child Protection Association .

Bayram is also a founding member of the “Initiative gegen Rechts” and “Friedrichshain hilft e. V. ".

Web links

Commons : Canan Bayram  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Berlin direct candidates Who is in - and who is out? (Berliner Zeitung online, September 24, 2017)
  2. Berliner Morgenpost: Residents on Rigaer Strasse: "We're getting on the biscuit!" In: morgenpost.de. January 14, 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  3. Olaf Wedekind: The bakery locks out the police. Much criticism of the Greens politician Bayram after the Riga tweet. In: bz-berlin.de. June 28, 2016, accessed March 1, 2017 .
  4. spiegel.de: Prelude to the Green Party Congress - "Is it still possible?" In: gruene-pankow.de. June 16, 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  5. All figures for the federal election - constituency results faz.net, 25 September 2017
  6. Canan Bayram on Twitter . In: Twitter . ( twitter.com [accessed February 28, 2017]).
  7. ^ Green Pankow: Canan Bayram nominated as successor to Hans-Christian Ströbele. In: gruene-pankow.de. March 11, 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  8. The greatest risk is a revolutionary spiegel.de, September 7, 2017
  9. ^ Forming a government How Jamaica could strengthen the AfD in the East , Dresdner Latest News, September 30, 2017
  10. Bayram and Gelbhaar resign from the House of Representatives. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .