Christa Goetsch

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Christa Goetsch (2011)

Christa Goetsch (born August 28, 1952 in Bonn ) is a former German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 1997 to 2015 she was a member of the Hamburg Parliament and from 2008 to 2010 Senator and President of the Authority for Schools and Vocational Education and Training and Second Mayor of Hamburg .

family

Christa Goetsch's father was a professor of medical microbiology , her mother a dental assistant. Goetsch grew up in Munich. She is married, has a son of full age, lives in Ottensen , a district of Hamburg in the Altona district , and in Wendland .

education and profession

Theodor Haubach School in Hamburg Altona

Christa Goetsch started school in Munich in 1958 and graduated from high school in Essen in 1971 . She then completed an apprenticeship as a pharmaceutical pre-exam and studied chemistry and biology in Frankfurt am Main to become a teacher. 1978 followed a legal clerkship at the Catholic Bonifatiusschule in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg . From 1980 to 2002 Christa Goetsch worked as a teacher at the Theodor Haubach School in Hamburg-Altona-Nord , a primary school and an integrated secondary and secondary school with a support center for talented young people with a migration background. Since 2012 she has been teaching natural sciences at the Louise Schroeder School, an integrative all-day primary school in Altona.

politics

Goetsch has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 1995 . As early as 1997 she moved into the Hamburg parliament , where she was the spokesperson for school and education policy in her parliamentary group . From 2002 to 2008 she was the leader of the GAL group. Among other things, she sat on the School Development Study Commission , the Submissions Committee, the School Committee and the Special Committee on Neglected Children .

Goetsch was the top candidate for her party in the Hamburg state election in 2008 . She led the coalition negotiations with the Hamburg CDU . From May 7, 2008 until the early dismissal of the GAL members by the First Mayor Christoph Ahlhaus on November 29, 2010, Christa Goetsch was a member of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Senator Goetsch was President of the School and Vocational Training Authority and Second Mayor of the first Black-Green coalition at state level ( Senate von Beust III , from August 25, 2010 Senate Ahlhaus ).

She then accepted her dormant citizenship mandate again. In the state elections in Hamburg in 2011 , she won another mandate for the state parliament through the Altona constituency . She was the specialist spokesperson for culture for the parliamentary group.

In September 2014 Goetsch announced her withdrawal from politics. According to the company, this decision was entirely personal. She has “actually achieved everything” and “doesn't have to prove anything to herself or to others”. Goetsch did not run for the 2015 general election .

Individual evidence

  1. Hamburg school reform Because it knows better, DIE ZEIT of July 13, 2010 (accessed on August 1, 2011)
  2. Part-time provincial for the weekend: Stadt, Land, Lust, Hamburger Abendblatt from July 16, 2011 (accessed on August 1, 2011)
  3. The new life of Christa Goetsch, Hamburger Morgenpost, July 30, 2011 (accessed August 1, 2011)
  4. Insa Gall: Green ex-school senator is teaching again. In: The world . December 3, 2012. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  5. Hamburg Citizenship Representative Christa Goetsch ( Memento from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. "I'll say goodbye now". In: TAZ . September 3, 2014. Accessed March 11, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Christa Goetsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files