Elisabeth Scharfenberg

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Elisabeth Scharfenberg (2014)

Elisabeth Scharfenberg b. Rödner (born March 14, 1963 in Rüsselsheim ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

Life and work

After graduating from the Gustav Heinemann School in Rüsselsheim in 1982, Elisabeth Scharfenberg completed a degree in social work and social pedagogy at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin , from which she graduated as a qualified social pedagogue (FH). Then she was u. a. active in adult education and at the care association of the Diakonisches Werk Wunsiedel . She has been a freelance carer since 1997 .

Scharfenberg announced her candidacy for the mayoral election in Hof in 2019 .

Elisabeth Scharfenberg is married, has four daughters and lives with her family in Neuhausen near Rehau .

Political party

She has been a member of the Greens since 1999. From 2000 to 2013 she was spokeswoman for the district executive of the Greens in Hof and from 2002 to 2010 of the district executive of Upper Franconia . From 2003 to 2005 it belonged to the party council of the Greens in Bavaria on.

MPs

Elisabeth Scharfenberg has been a member of the district assembly of the Upper Franconia administrative district since 2003 .

From 2005 to 2017 she was a member of the German Bundestag and spokeswoman for the Bundestag parliamentary group for care policy . Your constituency was Hof .

During the 18th legislative period of the German Bundestag, she was a full member of the Committee on Health as well as secretary and deputy member of the Committee on Family, Seniors, Women and Youth . In June 2016, she announced that she would no longer stand as a candidate in the 2017 federal election.

Positions

  • Scharfenberg calls for midwives to be relieved of compulsory professional liability , which at times amounted to over 5,000 euros per midwife.
  • In November 2015, Scharfenberg presented a cross-party draft law for unpunished care for the dying by relatives and people close to the sick, such as doctors who have treated them for many years, together with Kerstin Griese (SPD), Michael Brand (CDU), Kathrin Vogler (left) and Harald Terpe (Greens) .
  • In June 2016, Scharfenberg criticized the law presented by the federal government for a better reconciliation of family, care and work , which provided for leave to care for relatives against an advance for a period of 24 months, stating that the resulting loss of income for low-wage earners was unsustainable your own draft, which u. a. provided for a three-month leave of absence with the receipt of wage replacement benefits for all employees.
  • In November 2016, in connection with the passing of the Federal Participation Act , Scharfenberg advocated strengthening the self-determination of disabled people; she criticized the upper limit of € 2,600 in savings for receiving integration assistance as too low.

In January 2017, Scharfenberg was asked by a journalist from Welt am Sonntag about her attitude towards subsidized sexual assistance in some Dutch communities . This is granted on application to people who demonstrably cannot lay hands on themselves and are financially needy. Scharfenberg said this: "A funding for sexual assistance is conceivable for me, the municipality could advise on appropriate services on site and subsidies granted".

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Scharfenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scharfenberg is no longer running for the Bundestag . Bavarian radio. June 22, 2016. Archived from the original on January 10, 2017. Retrieved on May 2, 2017.
  2. ^ Speech by Elisabeth Scharfenberg in the Bundestag . German Bundestag. March 20, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  3. ^ Speech by Elisabeth Scharfenberg in the Bundestag . German Bundestag. November 6, 2015. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  4. ^ Speech by Elisabeth Scharfenberg in the Bundestag . German Bundestag. June 2, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  5. ↑ Participation instead of exclusion . Elisabeth Scharfenberg. November 8, 2016. Archived from the original on January 9, 2017. 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. Retrieved May 2, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / elisabeth-scharfenberg.de
  6. ↑ Sexual assistance for disabled people in the Netherlands: How cool is that really? . ROLLING PLANET. April 14, 2013. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  7. ^ Greens ask for prostitutes for nursing homes by prescription . World N24. January 8, 2017. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Scharfenberg, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rödner, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruesselsheim