Elisabeth Baum

Elisabeth Baum (born March 27, 1964 in Heide / Holstein ) is a German left-wing politician . She was a member of the 19th Hamburg Parliament .

Life

After finishing secondary school in Itzehoe, Elisabeth Baum trained in retail. In 1984 she moved to Hamburg. After moving, she worked again as a retail clerk in a branch of a retail company, where she took on the role of works councilor. Today she works as an administrative clerk in retail. She is a member of the HBV union ( ver.di since 2001 ). She has been married since 1986 and has two children.

politics

Elisabeth Baum was a brief member of the SPD and then joined the WASG in 2004 , which later merged with the PDS to form the Left Party . She herself saw her focus in labor and social policy. She called for a minimum wage for trade and is against further extending shop opening hours .

In the 2008 election she was elected to the Hamburg parliament via the constituency list of the Left as a member of the constituency Billstedt-Wilhelmsburg-Finkenwerder . In the citizenry she was the specialist spokesperson for labor market, economic and trade union policy for her parliamentary group . In addition, she sat on the committees for economy, health, urban development and the environment. She is also a member of the “ Low German Council” in Hamburg. In January 2011 Elisabeth Baum left the DIE LINKE party and let her mandate in the Hamburg citizenship expire. She is a union member of the collective bargaining commission for the Hamburg retail trade. At the suggestion of the Verdi union, she will be an associate honorary judge at the Hamburg Labor Court from spring 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Ed.): Elections for the citizenship and for the district assemblies on February 24, 2008. Volume 2: Calculation and allocation of mandates. Hamburg, September 2008, ISSN  1613-4974 , p. 33 ( PDF ; 925 kB).