Cornelia Prüfer-Storcks

Cornelia Prüfer-Storcks (born May 8, 1956 in Essen ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and was Senator for Health and Consumer Protection of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the Senates Scholz I , II and Tschentscher I from 2011 to 2020 .

Life

Education and professional career

After graduating from high school in 1975 and doing a journalistic traineeship , Prüfer-Storcks first worked as an editor, including for the Dortmunder Ruhr Nachrichten . In 1988 she joined the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia as a consultant , and two years later moved to the newly founded Ministry of Equality as press spokesperson , where she took over the management of the women's policy department in 1995. From 1998 to 1999 she was Deputy State Secretary Karl Pröbsting in the Ministry for Women, Youth, Family and Health of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . After his death in 1999, she was appointed his successor. Until the change of government in 2005, she worked as State Secretary in the ministry, which was renamed in 2002 as part of a reorganization of the departments in the Ministry of Health, Social Affairs, Women and Family.

From 2007 until her appointment to the Hamburg Senate , she was a member of the board of AOK Rheinland / Hamburg .

Health Senator in Hamburg

Prüfer-Storcks has been Senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg since March 23, 2011 and President of the newly formed authority for health and consumer protection in the Scholz I Senate since May 1, 2011 . She kept this office in the Senate Scholz II and Senate Tschentscher I even after the Hamburg state election in 2015 .

Prüfer-Storcks became known to the general public in connection with the EHEC epidemic in northern Germany in May / June 2011. After cucumbers, lettuce and tomatoes were initially suspected of having caused the outbreak, evidence from the tracing of delivery routes soon led the investigation to focus on sprouts. It was later determined that the pathogen probably came to Germany via fenugreek seeds from Egypt, which were used to produce lettuce sprouts. In the meantime, cucumbers in particular became the focus of public interest when investigations by the Hamburg Hygiene Institute found an EHEC pathogen on cucumbers from Spain. As it turned out in the following investigations by the institute and was immediately corrected by the authority, it was not the pathogen responsible for the outbreak. The Spanish government then announced that it would examine a claim for damages against Germany.

After the 2020 general election , Prüfer-Storcks announced in February 2020 that he would withdraw from politics for personal reasons and no longer want to belong to the Tschentscher II Senate .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dortmund citizen becomes senator in Hamburg, Ruhr-Nachrichten of March 22, 2011.
2. ↑ Changed layout of the Hamburg authorities. hamburg.de - Official city portal for Hamburg, accessed on February 8, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Hamburg threatens billions lawsuit, Hamburger Morgenpost dated June 2, 2011. ( Memento dated June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
4. ↑ Norddeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg: For personal reasons - Prüfer-Storcks stops , accessed on February 25, 2020

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• Cornelia Prüfer-Storcks - biography at the Federal Council