Marion Caspers-Merk

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Marion Caspers-Merk

Marion Caspers-Merk b. Caspers (born April 24, 1955 in Mannheim ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2002 to 2005 she was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Health and Social Security and then from 2005 to 2009 Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Health . From 2001 to 2005 Caspers-Merk was also the federal government's drug commissioner .

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1974, Marion Caspers-Merk studied political science , German literature and history at the Free University of Berlin and the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg , which she completed in 1980 as a Magister Artium (MA). She then worked as a research assistant, as a lecturer in adult education and finally as a lecturer at the University of Public Administration in Kehl and at the Protestant and Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg / Breisgau.

Political party

She has been a member of the SPD since 1972 and was a member of the SPD district executive in Lörrach from 1993 to 2003 . From 2005 to 2007 she was a member of the party executive committee of the SPD, from 1997 and 2002 she was a member of the SPD parliamentary group executive committee.

MPs

From 1980 to 1990 she was a member of the March im Breisgau town council . From 1990 to 2009 she was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1997 to 2002 she was a member of the board of the SPD parliamentary group . She is a member of the executive committee of the Seeheimer Kreis . In 1990 and 1994 Marion Caspers-Merk entered the Bundestag via the state list of Baden-Württemberg and thereafter always as a directly elected member of the constituency of Lörrach-Müllheim . In the 2005 Bundestag election , she received 43.7 percent of the first votes . In the 2009 federal election Caspers-Merk did not run.

Public offices

From 2001 to 2005, Caspers-Merk was the federal government's drug commissioner. After the federal elections in 2002 , she was appointed to the federal government led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder on October 22, 2002 as parliamentary state secretary to the federal minister for health and social security . After the federal election in 2005 , she was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Health on November 23, 2005 in the Federal Government now headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel . After the federal election in 2009 and the subsequent change of government, Caspers-Merk left office.

Teaching at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Lörrach

At the beginning of the 2009/2010 winter semester, Marion Caspers-Merk began teaching in the Business Administration - Health Care Management course at the DHBW Lörrach.

further activities

From 2009 to 2013 Caspers-Merk was President of the Kneipp Association . At the beginning of 2013, Caspers-Merk succeeded the retired Friedhelm Repnik as managing director of the state-owned Toto-Lotto GmbH Baden-Württemberg . It was replaced by Georg Wacker in 2018 .

Honors

Cabinets

Web links

Commons : Marion Caspers-Merk  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Sommer: Chosen the best time. In: kurierverlag.de. March 12, 2017, accessed February 18, 2020 .
  2. ^ LOTTO Baden-Württemberg: Change at the State Toto-Lotto GmbH Baden-Württemberg . Retrieved August 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Caspers-Merk, Marion
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caspers, Marion (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim