Elisabeth Apel

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elisabeth Apel (born January 17, 1958 in Schrecksbach ) is a German politician and former CDU member of the Hessian state parliament . From autumn 2014 to July 2015 she was a member of the AfD .

education and profession

After training as a state-certified housekeeper at the technical school for housekeeping with a technical college degree, Elisabeth Apel worked as a lecturer for housekeeping trainees and regional advisor at the Association for the Promotion of Independent Regional Development in Hesse.

She completed her studies in food technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda (then still a technical college ) with a degree in engineering. from.

From 1996 to 1999 she was the managing director of agricultural producer groups.

The family runs an agricultural part-time business in accordance with ecological guidelines. Elisabeth Apel runs the Energiehof Waldhessen together with her husband. It is a member of numerous associations and associations at the municipal level.

In addition, in 2009 she was elected managing director of the HeRo competence center for raw materials in Witzenhausen.

Elisabeth Apel is Protestant, married and has two children.

politics

From 1997 to 2001 Elisabeth Apel was the chairwoman of the community association and parliamentary group of the CDU Ludwigsau. From 1998 she works as a district board member of the CDU Hersfeld-Rotenburg. Since 2001 she has been a member of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district council, and chairwoman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg waste / economic purpose association.

Furthermore, from 2003 to 2014 she was the district chairman of the CDU's SME and Business Association .

In 1999 she was elected for the first time for constituency 11 - Hersfeld in the Hessian state parliament, in which she is spokeswoman for nature conservation, consumer protection and regional development and environmental policy spokeswoman for the CDU parliamentary group. In the state elections in Hesse in 2009, she lost just under Torsten Warnecke (SPD) in the constituency . Since the CDU won more electoral districts than it was entitled to after the second vote result, no CDU member was elected from the state list. Despite her apparently secure place on the state list, Elisabeth Apel left the state parliament. On October 31, 2013, shortly before the end of the legislative period, she moved back to the state parliament for the resigned Jan Schneider . She resigned from the CDU and joined the AfD in November 2014, justifying this by stating that she could no longer represent the views of the CDU in energy policy and in bailing out the euro, in particular what she saw as the “completely uncoordinated expansion of renewables Energies ”was criticized by her. In July 2015, she left the AfD again because she did not want to be a member of a party that sees itself as the Pegida party.

Other offices

Elisabeth Apel has been a member of the Hessian Nature Conservation Board of Trustees since 1999. Since 2001 she has been a member of the Food Industry Advisory Board of the State of Hesse.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.hersfelder-zeitung.de/nachrichten/lokales/ludwigsau/elisabeth-apel-wechselelt-4437206.html , accessed on June 20, 2017.
  2. ^ A b Kai A. Struthoff: Elisabeth Apel leaves the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in protest . hersfelder-zeitung.de, July 8, 2015, accessed June 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Apel, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Schrecksbach