Dagmar Friday

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Dagmar Friday, 2008

Dagmar Freitag (born March 3, 1953 in Letmathe , today the city of Iserlohn ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and teacher . From 1998 to 2009 she was the spokeswoman for the sport working group of the SPD parliamentary group . Since 2009 she has been chairwoman of the sports committee and a member of the foreign affairs committee in the German Bundestag .

Life and work

After High School on school Hohenlimburg in 1972 graduated Dagmar Freitag studying English literature and sports science at the University of Bochum , which she in 1977 with the first state examination for teaching in secondary schools ended. After completing her legal clerkship , she passed the second state examination in 1980 and then worked as a teacher at the Wilhelm-Busch-Realschule in Schwerte . In 1992 she moved to the Schwerte municipal comprehensive school .

politics

She has been a member of the SPD since 1975 and was deputy chairwoman of the SPD city association Iserlohn from 1987 to 1989 .

From 1989 to 1999 she was a member of the Iserlohn City Council and was chairman of the sports committee during this time.

MPs

Dagmar Freitag has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1994 .

Dagmar Friday at the 1994 German election on the national list then always Rhine-Westphalia and as the directly elected members of the constituency Märkischer Kreis I and since 2002 the constituency Märkischer Kreis II (clean slate of constituencies) in the Bundestag drawn in.

In the 2013 federal election , Dagmar Freitag received 41.7% of the first votes in the constituency and won the direct mandate with a 54-vote lead over the CDU's competitor , who moved into the Bundestag via a list.

In the election to the 19th German Bundestag in September 2017, Dagmar Freitag received 38.6% of the first votes and thus for the fifth time the direct mandate in her constituency. In this electoral term she is the only member of the Bundestag from this constituency.

From November 1998 to November 2009 she acted as spokeswoman for the sports policy working group of the SPD parliamentary group . In January 2018, as in 2009 and 2013, she was elected chairman of the sports committee in the Bundestag.

In addition to sports policy, Freitag also focuses on foreign policy. Since 2009 she has been a full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly ; since 2013 deputy foreign policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group. She has also been a member of the German delegation of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU) since 2013 . In addition, Freitag is represented as a deputy member in the subcommittee on foreign cultural and educational policy.

Parliamentary Sponsorship Program (PPP)

Since 1998 Dagmar Freitag has been the SPD's reporter for the international exchange program Parliamentary Sponsorship Program / Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange (PPP / CBYX). As part of the parliamentary sponsorship program of the Bundestag in cooperation with the US Congress , a scholarship for an exchange year in the USA is awarded to pupils or young professionals from the constituency per constituency. The candidates are selected by the participating MPs in a complex selection process with personal selection interviews.

Social offices

From 2001 to November 2017 Dagmar Freitag was Vice President of the German Athletics Association .

From January 15, 2013 to November 28, 2017, Freitag was a member of the eight-member University Council of the German Sport University (DSHS).

As a representative of the German Bundestag, Dagmar Freitag is a member of the Broadcasting Council of Deutsche Welle ; since 2014 as its deputy chairwoman.

Freitag has been a member of the supervisory board of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) in Bonn since 2009 .

Web links

Commons : Dagmar Freitag  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constituency results ( Memento from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ German Bundestag - election results . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed February 27, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Members of the Sports Committee - 19th Bundestag Bundestag online, accessed on February 27, 2018
  4. ↑ Foreign Policy Working Group | SPD parliamentary group . In: SPD parliamentary group . June 7, 2011 ( spdfraktion.de [accessed February 27, 2018]).
  5. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  6. ^ The University Council of the German Sport University Cologne ( Memento of December 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 25, 2013
  7. ^ Deutsche Welle: The Broadcasting Council since March 2014 (official website, as of April 27, 2017)
  8. ↑ NADA: Supervisory Board. Retrieved February 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Friday, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Letmathe , now Iserlohn