Elke Breitenbach

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Elke Breitenbach (2017)

Elke Breitenbach (born March 30, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ) and Berlin Senator for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs .

Occupation and political activity

From 1989 to 1991 Elke Breitenbach was a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin for the research project Cooperation between vocational schools and organizations of union youth work in Berlin and Herford and from 1992 to 1997 union secretary for the trade union trade, banks and insurance companies for the areas of youth, vocational training and women since 2001, ver.di . In 1997 and 1998 she was unemployed. From 1998 to 1999 she worked in an ABM position as a historian at the Sachsenhausen Memorial . From 1999 to 2002 she was an advisor for social security systems at the PDS - parliamentary group and from 2002 to 2003 personal advisor to the Berlin senator for health, social affairs and consumer protection Heidi Knake-Werner . In January 2003 she moved up to replace Thomas Flierl in the Berlin House of Representatives . In 2006, 2011 and 2016 she was able to move into the House of Representatives again via the state list. Breitenbach was a member of the PDS executive committee and was elected to the first executive committee of the new DIE LINKE party on June 17, 2007. In October 2012 she was elected as Deputy Chairwoman of the Berlin State Executive Committee of the Left .

After the Berlin elections in 2016, a red-red-green coalition ( Senate Müller II ) was formed. On December 8th, Elke Breitenbach was appointed Senator for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs. Breitenbach resigned from the House of Representatives on January 31, 2017. For she moved Gabriele Gottwald by the parliament. In the context of her work as a senator, Breitenbach represented the legal opinion that police officers would need a search warrant in order to be able to enter an asylum seeker accommodation and deport rejected asylum seekers from there. This led to criminal charges against five police officers and a conflict with the Berlin Senator for the Interior, Andreas Geisel (SPD).

As part of the Berlin state admission program for Syrian refugees, Elke Breitenbach is the guarantor for a 71-year-old who was brought to Berlin by the refugee sponsors Syria . In 2018 she was the patron of the 4th Federal Conference of Street Children .

Web links

Commons : Elke Breitenbach  - Collection of images

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  1. ^ Report from the 1st session of the 4th State Party Congress
  2. ↑ Senator for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs. In: www.berlin.de. December 16, 2016, accessed December 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Jens Anker: Left Senators give seats: Philipp Bertram moves up. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Police officers reported after deportation operations! Geisel criticizes Senate colleague. BZ, June 3, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ https://fluechtlingspaten-syrien.de/verspaetet-aber-nicht-zu-spaet/
  6. ^ Elke Breitenbach: Social Senator Breitenbach greets the 4th Federal Conference of Street Children. In: YouTube. KARUNA Future for Children and Young People in Need (Karuna eV), September 28, 2018, accessed on February 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Breitenbach, Elke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (PDS, Die Linke), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main