Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker

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Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker (2013)

Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker, b. Winkelmeier (born September 15, 1962 in Troisdorf ) is a German politician ( CDU ). She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2005 . Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker is the spokesperson for the legal and consumer protection working group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and is a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee. Since November 29, 2019, she has been Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy in the Merkel IV cabinet and in this position became the Federal Government's Special Representative for the implementation of theInitiative for transparency in the raw materials industry appointed.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1981 at Alleestraße in Siegburg , Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , which she completed in 1986 with the first state examination in law. She has been married to former State Secretary Jürgen Becker since 1984 and has three children. After parental leave and legal clerkship , she passed the second state examination in 1992. She then worked as a judge at the Bonn Regional Court and from 1997 at the Siegburg District Court .

Winkelmeier-Becker is Catholic .

Political party

Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker joined the Junge Union (JU) in 1978 and the CDU in 1980. From 1986 to 1992 she was a member of the JU regional board in North Rhine-Westphalia and has been a member of the board of the CDU district association Rhein-Sieg since 2002 ; In 2004 she was elected deputy district chairman. She has been the district chairwoman since 2010. Winkelmeier-Becker has been deputy chairwoman of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia since 2012 .

MPs

In the 2005 federal election , Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker received 45.5% of the first votes in the constituency of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I and thus entered the German Bundestag as a directly elected member . In the 2009 Bundestag election she was re-elected with 44.9%. During this legislative period she was a full member of the Committee on Family, Seniors, Women and Youth . Winkelmeier-Becker succeeded in her third re-election in 2013 with almost 50% of the first votes. In the 2017 federal election, she again won her constituency with 44%.

Positions

In autumn 2012, Winkelmeiner-Becker and twelve other members of the Union Bundestag publicly advocated equality between civil partnerships and marriage in the case of spouse splitting . Winkelmeier-Becker abstained from the vote on opening up marriage to same-sex couples in 2017.

Winkelmeier-Becker speaks out against the abolition of Section 219a of the Criminal Code ( advertising for the termination of pregnancy ).

Memberships

Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker is a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.

She is a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Press release from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag
  2. ↑ Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy: Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker becomes the new Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics. November 29, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 .
  3. ^ Federal Government: New State Secretaries for Altmaier and Klöckner . In: Spiegel Online . November 27, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 28, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker new special representative for the implementation of the initiative for transparency in the raw materials industry , December 19, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker: curriculum vitae. Retrieved September 24, 2017 .
  7. ^ Final result of the federal election in the constituency Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I ( Memento from May 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), bundeswahlleiter.de
  8. ↑ Bundestag election 2017 - This is how the Rhein-Sieg district voted . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . Bonner newspaper printing and publishing house H. Neusser GmbH, Bonn September 25, 2017 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed September 25, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Member of the Bundestag Jens Spahn calls for more rights for homosexuals - the initiative towards homosexual marriage is met with skepticism , Westfälische Nachrichten of August 9, 2012.
  10. ↑ DerWesten - derwesten.de: This is how the MPs voted on “marriage for everyone” . ( derwesten.de [accessed on April 8, 2018]).
  11. ↑ No compromise on §219a in sight. In: tagesschau.de. August 29, 2018, accessed October 24, 2018 .
  12. ^ Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker website of the Europa-Union Deutschland. Retrieved January 12, 2018
  13. ↑ Michael Odenwald confirmed as chairman of the supervisory board until 2025 • DB supervisory body is becoming more female. Deutsche Bahn, March 25, 2020, accessed on March 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Winkelmeier-Becker, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winkelmeier, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Troisdorf