Cornelia Ernst

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Cornelia Ernst in November 2009 at the 4th state party conference of Left Saxony

Cornelia Ernst (born November 30, 1956 in Bad Saarow-Pieskow ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). Ernst was involved in state politics in Saxony for more than ten years, where she was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1998 to 2009 . Since the European elections in 2009 , Ernst has been a member of the European Parliament as part of the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left . She defended her mandate in the 2014 and 2019 European elections .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1974 and joining the SED , Ernst graduated as a qualified pedagogue in 1979 . It was in 1983 with the work "The History of International Women's Day in the transitional period from capitalism to socialism on the territory of the GDR (1945/46 - 1961)" at the University of Leipzig doctorate and was until 1991 teacher trainer at the Institute of Teacher Education in Großenhain .

Political activity

State political commitment

Cornelia Ernst at the state party conference of Die Linke Sachsen 2011 in Bautzen

After reunification, she changed her profession and worked from 1991 to 1998 as a parliamentary advisor in the working group on basic social security of the PDS parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament . From 1995 to 2001 Ernst was deputy chairwoman of the PDS Saxony. In November 2001 the members of the PDS Sachsen elected Ernst as chairperson and thus successor to Peter Porsch . After the merger of WASG and PDS to form DIE LINKE in June 2007, she was elected chairwoman of the state association of Saxony.

In November 1998, Ernst replaced the resigned MP Christine Ostrowski and became a member of the Saxon state parliament. In the state elections in 1999 and 2004, Ernst was directly elected to the state parliament. During her time as a member of parliament, she was primarily a member of the Interior Committee and the Committee on Constitution, Law and Europe.

As a local politician, she represented her party as a city councilor from June 1999 to June 2009 in Dresden City Hall, where she was a member of the social and hospital committee, among other things.

Activity as a MEP

Cornelia Ernst in the 2019 EU election campaign

Cornelia Ernst stood up for the 2009 European elections and her party nominated her for fifth place on the list. In the election Die Linke won 7.5 percent and thus 8 of the 99 German seats. She joined the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left , in whose parliamentary group she was elected in 2012. In the legislature from 2009 to 2014, she was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs for her group , as well as an alternate member of the Committee on Regional Development and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality .

Her party nominated her again for the 2014 European elections , this time for third place on the list. She defended her mandate, moved back into parliament and was also re-elected to the GUE / NGL group's executive committee. In the legislature from 2014 to 2019, she was again a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and a deputy member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy for her group . She was also a member of the Special Committee on Terrorism .

For the 2019 European elections, the delegates to the Federal Left Party in February 2019 again voted Ernst third on the list. The party lost votes in the election (5.5 percent), but Ernst defended its mandate again. In the legislature from 2019, she will again be a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs for her parliamentary group and a deputy member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

literature

Web links

Commons : Cornelia Ernst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cornelia Ernst: about the person. In: cornelia-ernst.eu. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  2. ^ Election of the federal list for the 2009 European elections. Die Linke, 2009, accessed on September 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 7th legislative term | Cornelia ERNST | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 8th legislative term | Cornelia ERNST | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Assembly of Representatives Election of the European list. Die Linke, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Home | Cornelia ERNST | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Saarow