Daniela Behrens

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Daniela Behrens b. Krause (born May 12, 1968 in Bremerhaven ) is a former German politician ( SPD ). From 2007 to 2013 she was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . From 2013 to 2017 she was State Secretary of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport . Since 2019 she has been head of department at the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth .

Family, education and work

After graduating from the commercial high school in Bremerhaven , Behrens studied political science at the University of Bremen . She completed her studies in 1993 with a diploma. She has been working as an editor and journalist since 1992. From 1995 to 1998 she completed an extra-occupational further education course to become a journalist at the Free University of Berlin . Between 2000 and 2007 she was press spokeswoman and head of the marketing and public relations department at the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences . Since September 2018 she has been Managing Director of the Science Information Service , since August 2019 she has been Head of Department IV ( Equal Opportunities ) in the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth.

Behrens is married. Her name was Krause-Behrens until 2009, when she gave up her maiden name.

politics

Behrens has been a member of the SPD since 1996. In 2007 she moved up for Heidrun Merk in the Lower Saxony state parliament. In the state elections in 2008 and 2013, she entered the state parliament via the SPD's state election proposal; she acted as the spokesperson for cultural and media policy in her group.

After the takeover of government by the red-green Weil I cabinet , Behrens was appointed State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport in February 2013. She left the state parliament on February 20, 2013; for she moved Axel Brammer after.

Behrens was a councilwoman in Bokel until the community was dissolved in 2011 and from 2001 to 2014 she was also a member of the district council of the Cuxhaven district . Behrens is a member of the Sozialbund Deutschland, the German Association of Journalists , the Arbeiterwohlfahrt and Greenpeace .

Award affair

In May 2017 it was alleged that Behrens should have exerted impermissible influence in the run-up to an order. An agency known to the State Secretary was awarded an order worth 180,000 euros after the company had previously received extensive personal advice from Behrens. In the official statement of the ministry it said: "There have been errors in the award procedure, the preliminary discussions have led to a restriction of competition". The 74 other providers are said to have had no chance. Since then, there have been allegations of budget infidelity. As a result of the allegations, she asked Minister Olaf Lies to be released in May 2017 . In the meantime, the Hanover public prosecutor's office has finally checked the allegations and has not recognized any criminal consequences. There was no initial suspicion, nor had state funds been embezzled.

Web links

Commons : Daniela Behrens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release from the Science Information Service
  2. ↑ Interview on Wissenschaftskommunikation.de, accessed on September 24, 2018
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated May 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Spokespersons for the SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spd-fraktion-niedersachsen.de
  4. ↑ http://www.mw.niedersachsen.de/portal/live.php?navigation_id=5474&article_id=15848&_psmand=18
  5. ^ Website of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, accessed on February 20, 2013
  6. ↑ Did you agree to award the contract? Ministry of Economic Affairs breaks its own rules , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from May 15, 2017
  7. ↑ Michael B. Berger, Heiko Randermann: State Secretary Daniela Behrens resigned , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of May 18, 2017
  8. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 17, 2018: http://www.haz.de/Nachrichten/Der-Norden/Uebersicht/Vergabeaffaere-unter-Rot-Gruen-Staatsanwaltschaft-Hannover-schliesst-fast-alle-Akten
personal data
SURNAME Behrens, Daniela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krause-Behrens, Daniela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven