Cemile Giousouf

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Cemile Giousouf (Oct. 2016)

Cemile Giousouf [ ˈdʒɛmɪlɛ ˈjuːsuːf ] (born May 5, 1978 in Leverkusen ) is a German-Greek politician ( CDU ) of Turkish origin and was the first Muslim CDU member in the German Bundestag from 2013 to 2017.

Life

Giousouf's parents come from the Thrace region in Greece and belong to the Turkish minority there. They immigrated to the Federal Republic in the course of the guest worker recruitment . Giousouf was born in Germany and spent the first two years of his life with relatives in Western Thrace . Then she moved back to Germany. In addition to German citizenship, she also has Greek citizenship. After graduating from high school, she studied political science as well as sociology and Islamic studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 2008 Giousouf was hired as a consultant in the Ministry for Generations, Family, Women and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . There she worked in the office of the Conference of Women and Equal Opportunities Ministers with the focus on "Women with a migration history". Since 2009 Giousouf has worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Labor, Integration and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in the integration department.

Political party

During her studies, Giousouf was involved in the German-Turkish Forum (DTF) , a sub-organization of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia, of which she has been a member since 2004. In 2008 she was elected deputy chairwoman of the DTF North Rhine-Westphalia and represented the forum as chairwoman of the Aachen district association . Giousouf also belonged to the CDU district and district association in Aachen and was active as a board member in the women's union . Since 2009 she has been a member of the Aachen-Mitte district council and the city's social committee.

Giousouf has been working for the Women's Union in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2010 in the “Women and Integration” working group. She was also part of the Bertelsmann Foundation's “Leadership Program” , a network for managers from migrant associations .

Giousouf has been a member of the Federal Network Integration of the federal office of the CDU in Germany since 2011, where he is responsible for structural development. She is also a member of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung's “Network Integration” and represents the DTF in the “Future Forum Islam” steering group of the Federal Agency for Civic Education .

On June 30, 2012 she was elected to the state executive committee of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia at the 34th party congress of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia in Krefeld . She received 61% of the delegate votes and achieved the third best result as an assessor.

Giousouf was nominated as a direct candidate in the constituency 138 Hagen - Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis I by the district executive of the CDU Hagen for the 2013 federal election. She was the first Muslim CDU direct candidate for the Bundestag. She did not win the constituency, but entered the Bundestag via the CDU's state list in North Rhine-Westphalia.

In the 18th German Bundestag (2013 to 2017) she was a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment and the integration officer of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . During this time, a delegation from the Islamic Community Milli Görüs (IGMG) visited Giousouf in the CDU district office in Hagen in September 2014. It was criticized that they met with representatives of an organization that was considered anti-Semitic and at that time was still monitored by individual constitutional protection offices. She herself stated that the meeting was a sign of solidarity because two arson attacks had previously been carried out on the mosque operated by the IGMG.

She is one of the 75 Union MPs - 68 from the CDU (26.9% of all CDU MPs) and 7 from the CSU (12.5% ​​of all CSU MPs) - who voted for same-sex marriage in July 2017 .

Giousouf, who was a direct candidate on the 24th list of the CDU NRW and in constituency 138 Hagen - Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis I , did not make it into the 19th German Bundestag .

In January 2019, Giousouf was appointed Vice-Head of the Federal Agency for Civic Education . This order was criticized because Giousouf had “close contact” with Turkish nationalists (“ Gray Wolves ”), Islamists ( Milli Görus ) and Erdogan supporters ( UETD ) ”. Giousouf himself denied these allegations.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cemile Giousouf is said to be the first Muslim for the NRW CDU in the Bundestag , Der Westen, March 16, 2013
  2. ↑ The CDU wants to become more modern , taz April 14, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Ana Schumacher Ostric: A particular politician. , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, August 9, 2013.
  4. ↑ CDU politician Giousouf is criticized for her contacts with Milli Görüs: How close to “Islamists” is allowed? In: welt.de . August 12, 2014, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ DW: Marriage for everyone: which MPs voted for and which voted against. In: welt.de . June 30, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Giousouf flies out of the Bundestag, Helling-Plahr pulls a website of the Westfalenpost. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  7. ↑ bpb: organization chart of the bpb. January 9, 2019, accessed January 18, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Cemile Giousouf: Politicians accuse their contact with "gray wolves". In: focus.de. December 17, 2018, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The goat to the gardener. In: juedischerundschau.de. January 11, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Giousouf, Cemile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Leverkusen