Daniela De Ridder

Daniela De Ridder (2017)

Video presentation (2014)

Daniela De Ridder (born November 27, 1962 in Kiel ) is a German social and communication scientist and politician ( SPD ). Since September 2013 she has been a member of the Bundestag as a member of the SPD parliamentary group.

Life

Daniela De Ridder was born in Kiel in 1962. She spent most of her childhood and youth in Belgium with her Belgian father and German mother . The family initially lived in Brussels and later in Kelmis in the German-speaking part of Belgium. In addition to German, she also has Belgian citizenship.

After graduating from the Royal Athenaeum in Eupen , De Ridder studied Romance studies, art education, social and communication sciences at RWTH Aachen University , the Saint-Luc Institute in Liège, Belgium, and at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Doctorate social and economic scientist was at the University of Osnabrück with her doctoral thesis on the topic "From the urban social space for the telemetric communication urban society". She completed an internship at the only German-language daily newspaper in Belgium, the Grenz-Echo in Eupen.

She is married and has two kids.

job

De Ridder is a freelance business consultant for universities, companies and municipalities. She acquired her expertise in advising by managing the women's offices and as an equal opportunities officer at the University of Göttingen and the Leuphana University of Lüneburg as well as at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences Foundation . In addition, she was a researcher in the Department of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Lüneburg and in the Department of Social Affairs at the University of Applied Sciences Northeast Lower Saxony. Her profile also includes research activities in the fields of family, youth, educational, urban, regional and migration sociology. As a lecturer for university management, she worked at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and the University of Bremen .

From 2003 to 2006, she was the spokesperson for the equal opportunities commissioner at Lower Saxony foundation universities and the federal conference of university equal opportunities commissioners. Then she was a project manager at CHE Consult in Gütersloh.

politics

De Ridder has been a member of the SPD since 1992 . From 2008 to 2011 she headed the Working Group of Social Democratic Women (ASF) in the Osnabrück district, and from 2009 to 2011 she was an assessor on the SPD district executive in the Osnabrück district . In 2011, she ran for the SPD in the Grafschaft Bentheim district as a candidate for the district council election . She was also supported by the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party and the Emlichheim Citizens' Forum. In the district election on September 11, 2011, she was defeated by her CDU opponent with 48.05 percent. From November 2011 to August 2014 De Ridder was district chairman of the SPD in the county of Bentheim. Since 2016 she has been a member of the county council of the Grafschaft Bentheim district and of the joint council of her home town of Schüttorf.

18th legislative term

In the federal elections on September 22, 2013, De Ridder moved into the Bundestag with 10th place on the Lower Saxony state list. In the 18th legislative period she was a member of the Bundestag committee for education, research and technology assessment. As a reporter, she was responsible for the subject areas “Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany”, “Research and development in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)” and for the entire area of “Good teaching” at universities. She was a deputy member of the Bundestag Committee for Transport and Digital Infrastructure. De Ridder was also involved in the “German Peace Research Foundation” board of trustees and was deputy chair of the German-Belgian-Luxembourg parliamentary group.

In the SPD parliamentary group she acted as a member of the working group on demographic change, migration and integration and as deputy project manager for “#NeueChancen - Appreciation for education and work”.

19th legislative term

In the federal elections on September 24, 2017, De Ridder moved back into the Bundestag via the 4th place on the list of the Lower Saxony SPD. She is a member and deputy chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee . Among other things, she is a member of the subcommittee on civil crisis prevention, conflict management and networked action, deputy chairwoman of the subcommittee on civilian crisis prevention, conflict management and networked action and deputy chairwoman of the Franco-German parliamentary group. De Ridder is also represented as an alternate member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure . Furthermore she is:

Full member of the Local Policy Group
Full member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Full member of the Intergroup Selection Committee of the German Bundestag for the guest program of the Federal Republic of Germany
Full member of the BENELUX parliamentary group
Deputy member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development
Deputy member of the Board of Directors of the Franco-German Youth Office
Deputy member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

De Ridder has set up the regional structural development working group in the German Bundestag.

Memberships

De Ridder is a member of the Workers 'Welfare Association , the Catholic Workers' Movement , the Osnabrück Peace Talks, the support group of the Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, the Kunsthalle Lingen, the Meppener Kunstkreis, the Kunstvereine Nordhorn and the Grafschaft Bentheim as well as the county women’s association Grafschaft Bentheim. She has taken on a sponsorship for the multi-generation house "Senfkorn" in Emlichheim and the DRK multi-generation house in Nordhorn.

awards and medals

Carrier of the order as Grand Officer of the Leopold Order

Doctoral Prize for Work and Life (2006)

Award of the German-speaking community in Belgium

Publications

De Ridder, Daniela: Joint fight against pandemics and wars: Science diplomacy must be an answer to Corona. In: Tagesspiegel March 27, 2020
De Ridder, Daniela: Lowering the increased drop-out rates at universities of applied sciences, in: Tagesspiegel July 20, 2017.
De Ridder, Daniela: Medical studies. Studying with risks and side effects, in: Tagesspiegel June 28, 2016.
De Ridder, Daniela / Jorzik, Bettina (eds.): Core elements of a diversity audit for universities. Essen 2012.
De Ridder, Daniela: How does more "family" get into the "work-life balance"? - Family orientation in medical education, training and employment. In: GMS Journal for Medical Education, ISSN 1860-3572, 2012.
De Ridder, Daniela: Diversity Management - Challenges for University Management? In: Austrian Quality Agency / Austrian Agency for Quality Assurance (AQA) (Hrsg.): Personnel management as the key to sustainable university development. Vienna 2011.
De Ridder, Daniela: University location with great potential, FAZ supplement “Wirtschaftsstandort NRW”, June 30, 2010.
De Ridder, Daniela: From Cost to Benefit? On the growing relevance of gender equality management at universities. In: Christian Berthold, Günter Scholz, Hanns N. Seidler, Brigitte Tag (eds.): Handbuch Praxis Wissenschaftsfinanzierung, B 2.6. Berlin 2009.
De Ridder, Daniela; Brandenburg, Uwe; Seifert, Stefanie; Schwerdtfeger, Ruth: Diversity in neighboring countries of Germany. Gütersloh 2009.
De Ridder, Daniela; Berthold, Christian: Internal target agreements as a university steering instrument. In: Berthold, Christian / Scholz, Günter / Seidler, Hanns H. / Tag, Brigitte Tag (Hrsg.): Handbuch Praxis Wissenschaftsfinanzierung. Berlin 2008.
De Ridder, Daniela: Appointment negotiations at universities of applied sciences. Subject, content and strategies of negotiation, in: Berthold, Christian / Günter Scholz / Hanns. H. Seidler, Brigitte Tag (Hrsg.): Handbuch Praxis Wissenschaftsfinanzierung. 2007.
De Ridder, Daniela: Studying with children - an initiative of the university, student union and the city of Osnabrück. Osnabrück 2007.
De Ridder, Daniela: From urban social space to telecommunicative urban society. Frankfurt 2006.
De Ridder, Daniela: KOMET - competence and orientation through mentoring, empowerment and transfer. Osnabrück 2006.
De Ridder, Daniela; Palandt, Olga: Children's campus at the FH Osnabrück. Osnabrück 2006.
De Ridder, Daniela: ProFHilia: From job to calling: Which paths lead to the FH professorship? Osnabrück 2006.
De Ridder, Daniela: Masterplan Gender and Diversity Management of the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück. Osnabrück 2005.
De Ridder, Daniela: Catalog of measures for the master plan Gender and Diversity Management of the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück. Osnabrück 2005.
De Ridder, Daniela; Engel, Helga; Edit Kirsch Auwärter; Kriszio, Marianne; Mitzdorf, Ulla: BuKof statement on the recommendations of the Science Council on the design of appointment procedures. Bonn / Berlin 2005.
De Ridder, Daniela: Agents of Change with New Structures and Strategies? Göttingen 2005.
De Ridder, Daniela: FH Osnabrück: Information on studying. Osnabrück 2005.
De Ridder, Daniela; Engel, Helga; Edit Kirsch Auwärter; Kriszio, Marianne; Mitzdorf, Ulla: BuKof statement on the excellence initiative of the federal government and the states to promote science and research at German universities: suggestions for the design and specification of concepts for equality between men and women in the applications. 2005.
De Ridder, Daniela: Women in leadership positions: Between soft skills and hard facts - leadership as a strategy. Hanover 2005.
De Ridder, Daniela: Cultural Diversity - Limits to Tolerance? (Moderation), Osnabrück 2005.
De Ridder, Daniela; Engel, Helga; Edit Kirsch Auwärter; Kriszio, Marianne: BuKof position paper on the accreditation of study programs - consideration of the quality feature of gender. Bonn 2004.
De Ridder, Daniela; Engel, Helga; Edit Kirsch Auwärter; Kriszio, Marianne: BuKof position paper on the science collective agreement. Bonn / Berlin 2004.
De Ridder, Daniela; Engel, Helga; Edit Kirsch Auwärter; Kriszio, Marianne: Statement on the current discussion about the promotion of "elite universities" or the creation of a "network of excellence" - "elite campus Germany". Berlin / Bonn 2004.
De Ridder, Daniela: Become an engineer ?! Decision support, Osnabrück 2003.
De Ridder, Daniela: Guidelines for the advancement of women of the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Osnabrück 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME	De Ridder, Daniela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), social and communication scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 27, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kiel