Christiane Ratjen-Damerau

Christiane Ratjen-Damerau (born June 4, 1954 in Northeim ) is a German politician ( FDP ).

Life

Ratjen-Damerau attended schools in Paris , Hamburg , Brussels and Münster . After graduating from high school in 1973 at Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium in Münster, she completed an agricultural apprenticeship from 1973 to 1974 and then began studying agricultural sciences at Kiel's Christian-Albrechts-University , which she graduated in 1979 with an agricultural engineering degree graduated with a specialization in animal production. In 1983 she received her doctorate in agricultural sciences from the Technical University of Berlin in the field of international agricultural development. In 1988 she passed her second state examination for the higher agricultural service at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests.

From October 1989 to March 1993 she worked in the Weser-Ems Chamber of Agriculture and later changed to the Department of Agriculture and Food Industry for the Weser Ems District Government, where she worked until February 2002. From April 2002 she was the head of the feed monitoring department in the Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety and in 2005 retired as agricultural director. D. into early retirement.

As a board member and founding member, she volunteers for the Oldenburg Community Foundation. She is also a member of the Franco-German Society, of which she is the former chairman.

Ratjen-Damerau is married and has one daughter.

politics

Ratjen-Damerau, which has been a member of the FDP since 1989, has been a member of the state board of the FDP Lower Saxony since 2008. Since 2006 she has been the district chairwoman of the FDP Oldenburg-Stadt. At the state party congress in Lüneburg in March 2010, she was elected general secretary of the FDP Lower Saxony with 85.82%.

In May 2010, Ratjen-Damerau entered the German Bundestag via the Lower Saxony state list. This was made possible by the change of the Osnabrück MP Carl-Ludwig Thiele to the board of the Bundesbank . She was a full member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development and an alternate member of the Transport Committee . From June 2011 she was the spokesperson for economic cooperation and development of the FDP parliamentary group.

Due to the failure of her party at the five percent hurdle , she is not represented in the 18th Bundestag .

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Ratjen-Damerau website
• Article of the FDP Oldenburg
• FDP parliamentary group in the German Bundestag
• Christiane Ratjen Damerau on abgeordnetenwatch.de