Christa Nickels

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Christa Nickels b. Kleuters (born July 29, 1952 in Setterich ) is a former German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 1998 to 2001 she was parliamentary state secretary to the Federal Minister of Health in the Schröder I cabinet and drug commissioner for the federal government .

Life

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1971 at the Ursuline High School in Geilenkirchen , Christa Nickels trained as a nurse , which she completed in 1974. After a family break, she worked in an internal intensive care unit from 1977 to 1983 . She has been a specialist nurse for internal intensive care since 1992.

Party career

In 1979 she was one of the founding members of the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1986 Christa Nickels played a key role in the “Initiative to found the Heinrich Böll Foundation”, from which the “ Heinrich Böll Foundation ” emerged. With the Greens, she campaigned for a better relationship between her party and the Catholic Church .

Member of Parliament

From 1983 to 1985, from 1987 to 1990 and from 1994 to 2005 she was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1983 to 1984 she was the parliamentary manager of the Greens parliamentary group and was a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee from 1984 to 1985. From 1994 to 1998 she was chair of the Petitions Committee . Since March 2001 she has been chairwoman of the committee for human rights and humanitarian aid and also spokeswoman for church and human rights policy for the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group.

Christa Nickels has always entered the German Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia.

In the early federal elections in 2005 , she decided not to run directly in her constituency of Heinsberg after withdrawing her candidacy from 7th place on the list at the delegates' conference.

Public offices

From October 27, 1998 to January 12, 2001, she was a member of the federal government led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder as Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Health . From 1998 to 2001 she was also the federal government's drug commissioner . In this office she pushed through the nationwide introduction of so-called “ fixer's rooms ”.

Other engagement

In 2001 Nickels was elected as the first green politician to the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK); in November 2012 she did not run for the ZdK again.

Private

Christa Nickels is married and has two children.

Political positions

Nickels is co-author of the author's paper “Echter Aufbruch”, formulated by several green politicians in 2012 , in which the replacement of the church tax by a “cultural tax” is proposed, which is “based on the Italian example” and “all people to one non-profit institution of their choice ”. Such a tax, referred to in some media as an “additional tax for those without a denomination”, was described by lawyers from the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in 2007 after an examination as “disguised state financing” and therefore incompatible with Article 140 of the Basic Law .

Awards

On May 28, 2008, Christa Nickels received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her commitment to human rights and in recognition of the fact that the number of drug deaths has been falling steadily since the drug policy reforms she introduced.

Publications

  • with Jürgen Roth : What is the church worth to us? Documentation of a technical discussion on church tax. Humanist Union , Munich 1991, ISBN 3-930416-04-2 (= Humanist Union: Writings , Volume 18).
  • with Friedhelm Stetter (ed.): Addiction research for addicts. Results, consequences, perspectives. Neuland, Geesthacht 2001, ISBN 3-87581-211-5 (= ways out of addiction , volume 2).
  • Well-founded hopes ..., alliance green politics and Christian faith. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-7820-0800-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ C. Schlötzer-Scotland : Church is no longer demonized. Christa Nickels wants to end the non-relationship of the Greens to the Catholics . In: SZ, October 10, 1997.
  2. ↑ “Real Awakening - A Contribution to Dialogue in the Catholic Church”, online under “The Spirit of God dwells in us” (1. Corinthians 3.16) josef-winkler.de, May 13, 2012 (PDF; 124 kB), accessed on May 16, 2012.
  3. ↑ Alternatives to the church tax ekd.de ( Memento from May 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 16, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Nickels, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleuters, Christa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Setterich