Dagmar Ziegler

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Dagmar Ziegler (2020)

Dagmar Ziegler (born September 28, 1960 in Leipzig ) is a German politician ( SPD ). She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2009 and Vice President of the Bundestag since November 26, 2020 .

Life and work

From 1977 to 1980 she completed her vocational training as a financial clerk and then studied finance at the Humboldt University in Berlin . She graduated in 1984 with a degree in finance. She then worked from 1984 to 1987 in the Leipzig branch of the State Bank of the GDR . Until the turn of 1990, she worked as an economist in the LPG Lenzen (Elbe) .

From November 2009 to November 2018 she was a member of the board of trustees of the Müttergenesungswerk , which wants to strengthen mothers in their health. From November 2013 to November 2016 she was Chair of the Board of Trustees.

She also volunteered in numerous other associations and foundations. Until July 2018 she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Israel Foundation . Until September 2020 she was honorary chairman of the board of trustees of the Peter Leonhardt Foundation . Dagmar Ziegler is currently a curator at the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation in Berlin, the Exposure- und Dialogprogamm e. V. and the German Society for International Cooperation .

Dagmar Ziegler has two children.

politics

Political party

In 1990 Ziegler founded the SPD in the city of Lenzen (Elbe) (then the Ludwigslust district ) and was a member of the city council there until 2000. At the same time she was honorary mayor of the city of Lenzen from 1993 to 1998. From July 2000 to August 2008 she was deputy chairwoman of the SPD Brandenburg .

She is one of the three speakers for the Seeheimer Kreis .

MP and Minister

From 1994 to 2009 Ziegler was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament . From 1997 to 2000 she was deputy chairwoman and from 1997 to 1999 financial policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group. As a directly elected member of the Prignitz I constituency , she represented the Prignitz region. Its constituency includes the cities of Wittenberge and Perleberg , the offices of Lenzen-Elbtalaue and Bad Wilsnack / Weisen, and the communities of Karstädt , Plattenburg and Gumtow .

In September 2000, Manfred Stolpe appointed her to succeed Wilma Simon as Minister of Finance in the state government of Brandenburg ( Stolpe III cabinet ). Even after Matthias Platzeck took over the government , Ziegler remained in this office ( Platzeck I cabinet ). In the new government that followed the state elections in 2004 , she took over the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Family ( Platzeck II cabinet ) until October 2009 .

Dagmar Ziegler (2014)

In the 2009 election they won the direct mandate in constituency Prignitz - Ostprignitz-Ruppin - Havelland I . In the 17th German Bundestag , Dagmar Ziegler was one of the deputy group leaders of the SPD and was responsible for the areas of education, family, senior citizens, women and youth. In the 2013 Bundestag election, she was subject to the CDU candidate in the direct mandate and moved into the 18th German Bundestag via the state list . There she had been one of the parliamentary directors of her group since December 16 . Since March 2015, Ziegler has been the spokeswoman for the newly founded Elbe Group in the SPD parliamentary group . It also entered the 19th German Bundestag via the state list. She is a member of the Council of Elders and the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development. She is once again one of the parliamentary directors of her group. At the end of 2019, Dagmar Ziegler announced that he would not run for the Bundestag again in the 2021 federal elections.

At the beginning of November 2020, Ziegler was proposed by the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group as the successor to the Bundestag Vice President Thomas Oppermann , who had suddenly died a short time before ; The Saarland SPD MP Josephine Ortleb is to take over her role as parliamentary manager . Following the proposal, there was a vote in the SPD parliamentary group between Ziegler and the former Vice President of the Bundestag Ulla Schmidt . Both candidates received 66 votes in the first ballot; after Ulla Schmidt withdrew her application, Ziegler was unanimously nominated in the second ballot. On November 26th, Ziegler was elected Vice President by the Bundestag with 81.58% in the first ballot.

Web links

Commons : Dagmar Ziegler  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. Ziegler elected as the new Vice President of the Bundestag - Politics - Deutschland Today. Retrieved November 26, 2020 .
  2. Change at the top of the maternal recovery organization: Marlene Rupprecht hands over the chairmanship to Dagmar Ziegler.
  3. Change of staff at the maternal recovery organization: Dr. Kirsten Soyke takes over the chairmanship of the board of trustees. Retrieved September 14, 2020 .
  4. ^ German Bundestag - Dagmar Ziegler. Retrieved September 14, 2020 .
  5. www.seeheimer-kreis.de , the two other speakers (as of July 3, 2017) are Johannes Kahrs and Carsten Schneider .
  6. Elbe group founded in the SPD parliamentary group ( Memento from July 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. SPD member of the Bundestag will end in 2021. December 16, 2019, accessed September 14, 2020 .
  8. Dagmar Ziegler is to become Oppermann's successor. In: Der Spiegel. November 5, 2020, accessed November 5, 2020 .
  9. Bundestag Vice President: SPD parliamentary group nominates Dagmar Ziegler. In: Tagesschau.de. November 24, 2020, accessed November 26, 2020 .
  10. ^ Ziegler elected as the new Vice President of the Bundestag. In: dtoday.de. November 26, 2020, accessed November 26, 2020 .
  11. ^ SPD parliamentary group: Dagmar Ziegler new Bundestag Vice President. In: DDP dispatch service. November 26, 2020, accessed November 26, 2020 .