Doris Rauscher

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doris Rauscher (2014)

Doris Rauscher (born January 16, 1967 in Steinhöring , Ebersberg district ) is a German politician (SPD). She has been a member of the Bavarian state parliament since the state elections in 2013 and has been the social policy spokeswoman for the Bavarian SPD parliamentary group since 2016 . Since the state elections in Bavaria in 2018 , she has been chairwoman of the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs, Youth and Family.

Origin and occupation

The Ebersbergerin has been rooted in the district since she was born. Born in Steinhöring, she grew up in Ebersberg. She completed an apprenticeship as an educator, completed her technical college entrance qualification and initially worked in day-care centers. In 1993 and 1995 Doris Rauscher's children were born. This was followed by further training as a social and health specialist. Until her election in 2013, she was the pedagogical director of 28 day-care centers for the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband in Munich and lives in the district town of Ebersberg.

She was already socially committed before her election to the Bavarian state parliament . Together with a women's group, she founded a family policy working group in Poing, got involved in the local family center and launched an initiative to create kindergarten places. From 1996 she was a founding member and board member of the “Kinderland Poing” association, which today operates several children's homes in Poing, Ebersberg and other municipalities. As a representative of the association, she was involved in the state advisory board of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband for several years. Since 1999 she has been organizing volunteer work for the Ebersberg school helpers. She is also a member of the Ebersberg roundabout watch, the Christophorus Hospice Association in the Ebersberg district, the Ebersberg child protection association, the nature conservation association, the Ebersberg Catholic women's movement and the Gegen Vergessen - für Demokratie e. V. and more. Since she was a member of parliament, she has also been an individual member of the Diocesan Council of Catholics in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and a member of the Dean's Council. In 2017 she was also elected as the district chairwoman of the social association VdK in the district of Ebersberg and is the patron of the Parkinson's self-help group Ebersberg.

Politics in the SPD

Doris Rauscher has been active in local politics for the SPD in Ebersberg since 2002 and was elected as Ebersberg's city councilor for the first time. She still holds this office today. She has been a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 2003 and is active in the Ebersberg local association, of which she is a member of the board. She has been in the district association of the SPD in the Ebersberg district since 2006 and has also been deputy district chairwoman since 2013. Since then she has also been active as a district councilor in the Ebersberg district council and as the deputy district chairwoman of the SPD Upper Bavaria. Her main political topics are family and social policy . Among other things, Rauscher advocates more daycare places, a quality offensive in early childhood education, better support for families and affordable housing.

Member of Parliament

She was elected to the state parliament for the first time in the Bavarian state elections on September 15, 2013. As a direct candidate in the Ebersberg district, she reached 21.9 percent. In the 17th Bavarian state parliament she was initially a member of the committees for labor and social affairs, youth, family and integration, and for health and care, as well as deputy chairwoman of the children's commission of the Bavarian state parliament. During this time she represented the SPD parliamentary group in the areas of children and family, senior citizens and care. In 2016 she became chairwoman of the working group for work, social affairs and family as well as social policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group as well as deputy chairwoman of the committee for labor and social affairs, youth, family and integration, thereby resigning from the health committee.

For the Bavarian state elections on October 14, 2018, she ran again as a direct candidate for the Ebersberg constituency and was third on the SPD list for the Upper Bavaria constituency a. During this legislative period, she took over the chairmanship of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs, Youth and Family and was reappointed as social and family policy spokeswoman for her parliamentary group.

Positions in politics

Family policy

Doris Rauscher has set the focus of her political work on a social family policy. It is important to her that there are equal educational opportunities for all children. It has therefore been campaigning for improvements in early childhood education for years - especially with regard to the working conditions for daycare staff - and calls for free access to educational offers from daycare to studies. In this context, together with daycare representatives from all over Bavaria, she founded a daycare alliance in 2018 and published a petition calling for quality improvements. More support for single parents and measures such as more flexible working hours to make it easier to combine family and work are important to her.

Social policy

As a spokesperson for social policy, Doris Rauscher calls for changes for employees, especially in social professions, and for people with disabilities. Her focus is on good conditions on the labor market , fair wages and better support for the unemployed . In addition, she calls for a housing campaign for Bavaria, with the help of which more affordable housing is to be created. Another focus is the fight against poverty, especially among children.

Senior policy

She placed another focus on senior citizens 'policy and in 2018 introduced a senior citizens' participation law into the state parliament. With this she called for senior representatives in each municipality as well as a senior representative in the Bavarian state parliament for more influence and co-determination options for senior citizens in Bavaria. In addition to the Senior Citizens' Participation Act, it also advocates age-appropriate and alternative forms of living, measures against poverty in old age and improvements for people in need of care and their relatives.

Web links

Commons : Doris Rauscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Association "Kinderland Poing"
  2. ^ Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Bayern
  3. ^ Diocesan Council of Catholics of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
  4. ↑ Social Association VdK in the district of Ebersberg
  5. ^ Parkinson self-help group Ebersberg
  6. ^ SPD in Ebersberg
  7. ^ Committee on Labor and Social Affairs, Youth and Family
  8. ↑ Social and family policy spokeswoman
  9. ↑ Petition with demands for quality improvements
  10. ↑ Senior Citizens' Participation Act (pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Rauscher, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinhöring