Emine Demirbüken-Wegner

Emine Demirbüken-Wegner (2017)

Emine Demirbüken-Wegner (born September 7, 1961 in Kilis , Turkey ) is a German politician ( CDU ). Your area of ​​expertise is integration policy . Since 2004 she has been a member of the CDU federal executive committee . She sat in the Berlin House of Representatives from 2006 to December 2011 . From December 2011 to October 2016 she was State Secretary for Health in the Senate Department for Health and Social Affairs . From December 2012 to December 2016 she was a member of the Presidium of the CDU in Germany.

Life

After she had spent her early childhood in Turkey, Demirbüken-Wegner moved with her parents to Berlin-Neukölln in 1969 . She was the only Turkish woman in her elementary school class. After attending school in Germany until completing secondary school, she attended grammar school in Turkey. Back in Germany, she studied German and journalism from 1980 to 1986 at the Technical University of Berlin . In addition, she worked from 1982 to 1987 as a social worker at the IB Vocational Training Center Berlin-Neukölln and at the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Kreuzberg and as a German teacher in the International Federation and in the youth welfare organization. From 1983 to 1988 she also worked as a freelancer at Sender Freie Berlin, responsible for the conception of Turkish-language radio programs.

Demirbüken-Wegner has been married to the entrepreneur Michael Wegner since 2003 , with whom she has two daughters, Serafina (* 2004) and Cherubina (* 2006). She lives in Berlin-Reinickendorf .

Political career

In 1988 Demirbüken-Wegner was the first woman with a Turkish migration background to be appointed integration officer in a Berlin district. She initially held this position in Schöneberg and from 2001 in the merged Tempelhof-Schöneberg district until she was released in 2005. In the 1990s she was also involved in German-Turkish interest groups such as the Turkish Federation and the Turkish Community . In 1992 she took German citizenship.

In 1995 Demirbüken-Wegner joined the Berlin CDU and took over various social-political party offices. In 2002 she was elected to the state executive committee, in 2004 to the federal executive committee of the CDU - again as the first person of Turkish origin. From 2012 to 2016 she was also a member of the CDU's Federal Presidium. From 2003 to 2006 she was a member of the administrative board of Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg . Since November 11, 2006, she was a successor in the Berlin House of Representatives and parliamentary group spokesperson for family and youth as well as an assessor in the parliamentary group's executive committee. In the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives on September 18, 2011, Emine Demirbüken-Wegner in the Reinickendorf 2 constituency was the first Turkish-German to win a direct mandate for the CDU. She is a member of the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation and has been State Secretary for Health in the Senate Department for Health and Social Affairs Berlin since December 6, 2011. She resigned from the House of Representatives. With the elections on September 18, 2016, she again won the direct mandate in the Reinickendorf 2 constituency. On October 27, 2016, she resigned from her position as State Secretary and accepted her seat in the House of Representatives. She is chair of the committee for education, youth and family in the Berlin House of Representatives.

Positions

Demirbüken-Wegner describes himself as conservative-liberal. Contrary to the CDU party line, she was in favor of Turkey joining the European Union on a long-term basis and in principle advocates Islamic religious instruction.

In 1999 she sharply opposed the CDU signature campaign launched in the Hessian state election campaign against dual citizenship and described it as "hostile to integration". In 2008 she criticized the focus of the debate about juvenile delinquency on offenders with a migration background, which in turn was run by the Hessian CDU in the state election campaign. In particular, she spoke out against the simple deportation of the perpetrators and against a further tightening of the youth penal laws and instead called for solutions to be found in education policy, integration policy and social policy, as well as speeding up legal proceedings. The CDU parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives distanced itself from these statements.

literature

• Luise Gunga: Patience and staying power . (PDF; 3.0 MB) In: parTU , Alumni magazine of the Technical University of Berlin, 3rd year, No. 5, December 2001, p. 11.

Web links

• Emine Demirbüken-Wegner's website
• State Secretary for Health Emine Demirbüken-Wegner Senate Department for Health and Social Affairs of Berlin
• Biography on the website of the Berlin House of Representatives for the 18th electoral term

Individual evidence

1. ^ FOCUS Online: State Secretary Demirbüken-Wegner (CDU) dismissed . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed December 30, 2016]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} The CDU as a liberal-conservative home: Emine Demirbüken . In: Die Welt , November 24, 2004.
3. ↑ How young politicians get everything under one roof . Welt Online , February 17, 2007.
4. ↑ In the footsteps of mother Gabriele - Gün Tank is the integration officer . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 8, 2007.
5. ↑ tbb-berlin.de
6. ↑ Demirbüken-Wegner nominated for CDU board . In: Die Welt , November 20, 2004.
7. ↑ Demirbüken-Wegner on the website of the CDU federal executive committee.
8. ↑ Demirbüken-Wegner  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Berlin House of Representatives.  
9. ↑ Demirbüken-Wegner on the website of the Berlin CDU parliamentary group.
10. ↑ Demirbüken-Wegner at parlament-berlin.de
11. ↑ Emine Demirbüken: The wrong association was commissioned . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 7, 1998.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Votes CDU despite Koch! In: taz , January 11, 2008.
13. ↑ We must not push the problems off . Deutschlandfunk , January 11, 2008.
14. ↑ CDU distances itself from Demirbüken-Wegner's statements .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. DDP press release, January 11, 2008.