Carola Veit

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Carola Veit (2018)

Carola Alexandra Veit (born June 2, 1973 in Hamburg ) is a German politician . She has been a member of the Hamburg Parliament for the SPD since 2004 and has been President of the Hamburg Parliament since 2011 .

Personal history

After graduating from high school , Carola Veit completed vocational training as a paralegal before she began studying law . She successfully completed her legal clerkship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court with the second state examination. She was a member of the staff council for trainee lawyers. Carola Veit has three children with her partner.

Political career

Veit joined the SPD in 1991 and has held various party offices since then .

From 1997 to 2004 Carola Veit was Deputy of the Hamburg Interior Authority and has been a member of the Hamburg Parliament since March 2004.

She is currently a member of the board of the SPD parliamentary group , deputy district chairwoman of the SPD Hamburg-Mitte and a member of the SPD district board of Rothenburgsort.

In the 18th electoral term of the citizenship (2004-2008) Veit was a member of the Committee for Children, Family and Youth, the Committee for Urban Development, the Constitutional Committee and various special committees: “Administrative Reform”, “Neglected Children”, the parliamentary committee of inquiry “Feuerbergstrasse II ". In the 19th electoral term (2008-2011) she was chairman of the Committee on Family, Children and Youth and a member of the Legal Committee and the Constitutional Committee. In the 20th electoral term (2011–2015) she was chairman of the constitutional committee and a member of the parliamentary control committee of the Senate. In the 21st electoral term (2015-2020) she was chairman of the constitutional and district committee as well as the subcommittee “Strengthening the Hamburg Citizenship” and a member of the committee for cooperation between the states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein and of the commission under Article 10 of the Basic Law .

On March 23, 2011, Veit was elected President of the City Council as the successor to Dorothee Stapelfeldt , who became the Senator for Science in the new Hamburg Senate . In the 21st citizenship, Veit was confirmed in the office of president in the constituent meeting on March 1, 2015 with 109 of 120 votes. Also in the 22nd citizenship, the MPs of the Hamburg citizenship confirmed Veit in office: Due to the Corona crisis , only 74 elected representatives came to the constituent meeting on March 18, 2020, of which 68 voted for their re-election. Since the introduction of general and equal suffrage in 1919, only the Hamburg honorary citizens Adolph Schönfelder and Herbert Dau have been in office longer than Carola Veit .

Veit was Vice-President from 2015 to 2016 and President of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference from 2016 to 2017 , and from 2017 to 2018 she was again Vice-President.

Other offices

As a member of the advisory board of Youth Against AIDS , Carola Veit supports the initiative initiated and led by young people, which carries out educational and prevention work at eye level. She is deputy chairwoman of the Herbert and Elsbeth Weichmann Foundation , a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kulturpalast Hamburg Foundation and a member of the board of the Hamburg Youth Recreation Association

Web links

Commons : Carola Veit  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RTLNord: She ensures order: Carola Veit , accessed on July 01, 2019
  2. ^ Member profile of Carola Veit , accessed on July 1, 2019
  3. ↑ ndr.de: day one in the new citizenship , accessed on March 3, 2015
  4. ↑ Carola Veit re-elected as President , hamburgische-buergerschaft.de, accessed on April 1, 2020
  5. ↑ Hamburg takes over the chairmanship of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference. Press release. Hamburg Citizenship , September 2, 2016, accessed on December 19, 2016 .
  6. ^ Standing Committee • BSPC. Retrieved May 3, 2019 (American English).
  7. ↑ JGA constitutes advisory board. jugend gegenaids.de, September 26, 2014, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on August 31, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Committees of the Herbert and Elisabeth Weichmann Foundation , accessed on July 1, 2019
  9. ^ Stiftung Kulturpalast Hamburg , accessed on July 1, 2019
  10. ↑ Jugenderholungswerk Hamburg eV www.jugenderholungswerk-hamburg.de, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Vitus, Carola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Veit, Carola Alexandra (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdHB, President of the Citizenship
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd June 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg