Cornelia Pieper

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Cornelia Pieper (2013)

Cornelia Pieper , b. Richter (born February 4, 1959 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German politician . She was Secretary General from 2001 to 2005 and Deputy Federal Chairwoman of the FDP from 2005 to 2011 . From October 2009 to December 2013 she was Minister of State in the Federal Foreign Office. She has been Consul General in the Polish city of Gdańsk since 2014 .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Halle, Cornelia Pieper completed a degree in applied and theoretical linguistics in the Polish and Russian languages in Leipzig and Warsaw , which she completed in 1982 as a qualified linguist . Until 1985 she worked as an interpreter in tourism and in the cultural sector and then moved to the IT department of the television equipment factory in Halle. From 1987 to 1990 she worked in the culture and education department of the LDPD district executive in Halle. From 1995 to 1996 she was the managing director of the Humanist Association in Berlin . From 1996 she worked as a freelance translator. Pieper was a member of the supervisory board of Nuremberg health insurance . In August 2014 she became Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Gdansk .

Pieper is widowed and has one son. Pieper's husband committed suicide on April 30, 2013 at the age of 55 years suicide .

Party career

Pieper was a member of the GDR block party LDPD and from 1987 to 1990 worked for culture and education in its Halle district association . She has been a member of the FDP since 1990 and since then has also been a member of the regional executive committee of the FDP in Saxony-Anhalt . From 1993 she was a member of the FDP federal executive, from 1997 to 2001 as deputy federal chairwoman and then until May 2005 as general secretary of the FDP. In 2003, the FDP politician Wolfgang Kubicki Pieper called on her to resign from her post as general secretary after the police found a hemp plant on Pieper's property in Halle. On May 5, 2005 Pieper was again elected Deputy Federal Chairman of the Liberals with 60.6% of the vote. In addition, from 1995 to April 9, 2011, she was state chairman of the FDP Saxony-Anhalt . At the federal party conference in Rostock in 2011 , she no longer ran for deputy federal chairwoman, but as an assessor. She (like Wolfgang Kubicki) was only elected in the second ballot.

Member of Parliament

From 1990 to 1994 Cornelia Pieper was a member of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt and during this time also Vice President of the State Parliament. In 1998 she was elected to the German Bundestag for the first time. From 1998 to 2001 she was deputy chairwoman of the FDP parliamentary group . After the FDP had achieved 13.3% of the votes cast with her as the top candidate in the state elections in 2002 , Cornelia Pieper was again a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt and here also chair of the FDP parliamentary group. She left the Bundestag on May 31, 2002, for which she ran again in the Bundestag election in September 2002 .

From then until 2013 she was again a member of the German Bundestag and gave up her state parliament mandate and parliamentary group chairmanship. From February to October 2005 she was chairwoman of the Bundestag committee for education, research and technology assessment . From November 2005 she was deputy chairwoman of this committee and spokeswoman for the FDP parliamentary group for research. It always entered the German Bundestag via the Saxony-Anhalt state list . Your Bundestag constituency is constituency 73 ( Halle ).

For the 2013 federal election , the FDP Saxony-Anhalt placed Cornelia Pieper in first place on the state list, as in 2009. Since the FDP failed because of the five percent clause , its time as a member of the Bundestag ended with the meeting of the 18th Bundestag .

Political positions

Before the 2009 Bundestag elections, Pieper described greater investment in education as the greatest challenge. She also described the law to block child pornographic content on the Internet as "unsuitable": "No pedophile will change their behavior." In November 2012, Pieper announced that, contrary to a coalition resolution, he would not vote for the childcare allowance . This is a return to the old family model of “ children, kitchen, church ”.

Volunteering

For many years, Cornelia Pieper has been an active volunteer in various committees of the Oskar Patzelt Foundation and is an ambassador for the Grand Prix for medium-sized businesses

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Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Foreign Office considers Schavan unsuitable. In: Welt Online , February 23, 2014.
  2. ↑ Cornelia Pieper's husband: Lutz Pieper is dead. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , May 1, 2013; Claudia Ehrenstein: Cornelia Pieper's life with her husband's suicide. In: Welt Online , December 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ Helmut Müller-Enbergs:  Pieper, Cornelia . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  4. ↑ Majid Sattar : Cornelia Pieper or the big difference. In: FAZ.net , May 3, 2001.
  5. ↑ Pieper counters Kubicki: "His ass is not in his pants". In: Der Spiegel , October 27, 2003. On the question of the admissibility of a report on this event in a blog after a large number of media had previously reported, cf. the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court 1 BvR 1891/05 v. 9.3.2010.
  6. ↑ Results of the federal board election ( memento of July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on FDP.de, accessed on August 29, 2011.
  7. ^ Information on the website of the Landes-FDP, undated , accessed on May 31, 2013.
  8. ↑ FDP takes deviator Pieper into the mangle , Spiegel Online from November 8, 2012
  9. ↑ Mittelstandpreis: Ambassador of the competition "Großer Preis des Mittelstandes". Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pieper, Cornelia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Cornelia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale) , GDR