Dorothea Schäfer

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Dorothea Schäfer (2016)

Dorothea Schäfer (born April 28, 1962 in Mainz ) is a German politician ( CDU ). She has been the district administrator in the Mainz-Bingen district since October 1, 2017 .

Life and work

After graduating from the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz in 1981 , Dorothea Schäfer completed a degree in Middle and Modern History , Political Science and Ancient History at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , which she completed in 1989 as a Magister Artium . She then worked as a research assistant in the CDU parliamentary group in Rhineland-Palatinate until 1993 and then as a research assistant in the Commission for Ancient History at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.

Dorothea Schäfer is married and has three children.

Political party

As a student, she became a member of the CDU in 1979. Dorothea Schäfer was initially involved in the Junge Union and was chairwoman of the Mainz-Bingen JU district association from 1990 to 1996 . From 1993 to 1997 and from 2006 onwards she was also a member of the CDU regional executive committee for Rhineland-Palatinate. From 2013 she is still chairwoman of the CDU district association Mainz-Bingen.

Since 2002 she has been chairwoman of the Rheinhessen-Pfalz district association of the Women's Union .

Local politics

From 1997 to 1999 she was an honorary alderman of the local community of Gau-Bischofsheim . Since 1999, the local Dorothea Schäfer member town council of Gau-Bischofsheim. From 2004 to 2012 she was a member of the district council of the Mainz-Bingen district . From 2009 she was chairwoman of the CDU parliamentary group. From 2012 to 2014 she was an honorary 2nd district member of this district with the youth and social affairs division. Since 2014 she has been a member of the district council again, and since the end of 2015 she has been chairwoman of the CDU district parliamentary group.

In October 2016 she was nominated as a candidate for the office of district administrator by the members of the CDU district association. In the first ballot on June 11, 2017, she did not achieve an absolute majority with 49.8% of the valid votes cast, and in the subsequent run-off election on June 25, 2017, she became the district administrator with 65.1% against Salvatore Barbaro (SPD) Mainz-Bingen elected. Schäfer took office on October 1, 2017.

State politics

On November 2, 2002, she replaced the resigned MP Ute Granold in the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate . She is first on the national list drawn into the parliament. In the state elections in 2011 and 2016 , she won the direct mandate in the Ingelheim constituency . She was a member of the committee for science, further education and culture and is the spokesperson for science and research for the CDU parliamentary group. She was also deputy chair of the Committee on Equality and the Advancement of Women.

Dorothea Schäfer left the state parliament on October 1, 2017; Thomas Barth moved up for them .

Social offices

Schäfer is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fridtjof Nansen Academy for Political Education at the Ingelheim Training Center . She is also a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , deputy state chairwoman of Donum Vitae , and a member of the board of trustees of the Technical University of Bingen .

Web links

Commons : Dorothea Schäfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preliminary final result ( Memento of the original dated June 14, 2017 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. of the first ballot  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mainz-bingen.de
  2. ↑ Victory in the runoff election: Dorothea Schäfer is the new district administrator for the Mainz-Bingen district. Article in the Allgemeine Zeitung from June 25, 2017
  3. ↑ Thomas Barth (CDU) from Stadecken-Elsheim moves up for Dorothea Schäfer in the state parliament. Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, October 4, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz