Eva Högl

Eva Alexandra Ingrid Irmgard Anna Högl (born Kampmeyer ; born January 6, 1969 in Osnabrück ) is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD . From 2009 to 2020 she was a member of the German Bundestag and from 2013 deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group . On May 7, 2020, she was elected Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag after an internal dispute ; their inauguration and swearing-in took place on May 28th of that year.

Family, education and work

Eva Högl graduated from high school in Bad Zwischenahn - Edewecht near Oldenburg in Lower Saxony in 1988 . She completed a law degree and was a research assistant at the University of Osnabrück . In 1997 she did her doctorate on European labor and social law. After her legal clerkship at the Oldenburg Higher Regional Court and the second state examination in law , she worked at the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs from 1999 to the beginning of 2009 , most recently as head of the department for “European Employment and Social Policy; European Commissioner ".

Högl is Protestant and married.

politics

Political party

Högl has been a member of the SPD since 1987. As a representative of the reform socialist Juso wing, she was Deputy Federal Chairwoman of the SPD youth organization from 1991 to 1995. She was a member of the SPD party executive from 1997 to 2001, 2009 to 2011 and 2017 to 2019 .

In the Lower Saxony state election campaign in 2008 , she was a member of the competence team of the Social Democratic Prime Minister candidate Wolfgang Jüttner as "shadow minister" for regional development and Europe.

Since 2007 she has been a member of the SPD Berlin regional executive committee . From 2007 to 2018 she was the Berlin state chairwoman of the Working Group of Social Democratic Women and since 2018 she has been the chairwoman of the Berlin-Mitte district association . From 2009 to 2015 she was the spokesperson for the Berlin Network , an association of pragmatic members of the Bundestag of the SPD.

MPs

Högl had been a member of the German Bundestag since January 12, 2009 .

She first moved up via the state list of the Berlin SPD for Ditmar Staffelt , who gave up his mandate. Högl ran for the first time as a direct candidate in the Berlin constituency, which was held almost entirely by the SPD , in the 2009 Bundestag election and won the electoral district , which was fiercely contested between four parties, with 26.0 percent of the first votes. This was the lowest number of first votes for winning a direct mandate since the 1953 federal election .

In the 17th German Bundestag (2009 to 2013), Högl was a full member of the Legal Committee, the Sub-Committee on European Law, the Committee on European Union Affairs and a deputy member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs.

In the 2013 federal election she again won the Berlin-Mitte constituency with a first-time vote of 28.2 percent. At the same time she was the top candidate of the Berlin SPD. Since then Högl has been a deputy member of the sports committee .

On December 4, 2017, Högl was re-elected as deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group after 2013. In this function, she is responsible for the subjects of home affairs, law and consumer protection, sport as well as culture and media.

Högl chaired the committee of inquiry into the Edathy affair that was set up in July 2014 . In the investigative committee, she “does not always give the impression that she wants to clarify the matter completely independently,” wrote Christoph Hickmann in February 2015.

In the 2017 Bundestag election , she was re- elected directly to the 19th German Bundestag - with 23.5 percent of the first votes . On November 7, 2019, the plenum of the German Bundestag elected Högl to succeed Burkhard Lischka in the Parliamentary Control Committee (PKGr).

With her assumption of office as defense commissioner, she can no longer be a member of the Bundestag by law.

European politics

Högl's main focus has been on European politics since his studies, reinforced by professional experience in the ministerial administration. Her dissenting stance on aid to Greece caused a stir on May 7, 2010. Together with Hans-Ulrich Klose , Michael Roth and Angelica Schwall-Düren , she voted for the “rescue package” while her parliamentary group abstained.

Aliens Policy

Högl advocates granting municipal suffrage to Turks who have lived in Germany for 40 years without them having to acquire German citizenship .

Investigative Committee "Terrorist Group National Socialist Underground"

In the first Bundestag Committee of Inquiry terrorist group NSU , which was established at the request of the representatives of all five factions on 26 January 2012 at the German Bundestag, Högl spokeswoman was the SPD parliamentary group and led the group working group. In this function, she helped to investigate the background to the acts of the right-wing extremist terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU) and the investigations of the security authorities, as well as to draw up conclusions and recommendations for the structure, cooperation and powers of the security authorities and for combating right-wing extremism . In the second NSU Committee of the 18th Bundestag (2015-2017) Högl was a deputy member.

Prostitution policy

Within the framework of prostitution policy, Eva Högl advocates punishing clients if they seek out forced prostitutes . To this end, she wants to “completely revise both the human trafficking paragraphs and the rape paragraph” and thus “ criminalize the exploitation of prostitutes who are in a predicament”. In future, clients should be able to be prosecuted in particular for aiding and abetting human trafficking . Due to the low number of convictions so far, the criminal offense of trafficking in human beings ( Section 232 ff. StGB) is to be expanded. According to Section 233 of the Criminal Code, if the perpetrator had to be proven to have exploited certain circumstances for exploitation (subjective predicament), in future the perpetrators should be punished if they create the conditions for exploitation. The core of the forthcoming reinterpretation of “coercion” in the context of “human trafficking” is the renunciation of the previously applicable “subjective design” of this criminal offense. Previously, influencing the will by exploiting a predicament was decisive, but following the example of the Lower Saxony Federal Council's initiative for the national implementation of the European human trafficking directive, “poor social conditions in the home country” in and of themselves will also be considered a “predicament”, the “exploitation” of which would then be punishable.

Abortion law

Högl advocates the deletion of Paragraph 219a of the Criminal Code so that "doctors [are] able to provide objective information about abortions". A tweet published by her in connection with this debate, in which she described representatives of the movement for the right to life in the CDU as “disgusting”, caused outrage on the part of the Union. Högl later deleted the message and apologized.

Defense policy

In the course of revelations by right-wing extremists in the Special Forces Command , Eva Högl suggested reintroducing conscription . Her proposal met with broad criticism, including from her own party.

controversy

When the then SPD chancellor candidate Martin Schulz expressed his mourning over the terrorist attack in Barcelona on August 17, 2017 at a press conference , Högl could be seen in the background, laughing, gesturing and waving to a party colleague, before becoming serious after a few seconds. After criticism, Högl apologized in the Bundestag and in a written statement. She couldn't hear what Schulz had said, and by waving she wanted to get Andreas Geisel forward. Högl regretted the wrong picture that was created in this way.

Memberships and honorary positions

Högl is a member of the trade union ver.di , Pro Asyl , AWO , Deutscher Juristinnenbund e. V., DAFG - German-Arab Friendship Society e. V. (board member), German-British Society, Europa-Union Deutschland e. V., Transparency International e. V., Marie-Schlei-Verein, Evangelical Lutheran Church, Kunstverein Haus am Lützowplatz , Friends of the Willy-Brandt-Zentrum Jerusalem, Lebenshilfe e. V., Against Forgetting for Democracy e. V., Arbitration Board of Lawyers (Advisory Board), German Association for Parliamentary Issues e. V. (Board of Directors) and Berlin Council for Democracy. She is also a member of the board of directors of the prevention network Do n't become a perpetrator .

Web links

Commons : Eva Högl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of Eva Högl
• Profile on spd.berlin
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Eva Högl on parliament watch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Politicians check before the federal election: Eva Högl (SPD): One candidate - five first names , bz-berlin.de , September 6, 2017
2. ↑ "Eva Högl was born Eva Alexandra Ingrid Irmgard Anna Kampmeyer in Osnabrück." Possible cabinet members: Braun, Högl, Widmann-Mauz - Who are the new ones? , noz.de, February 8, 2018
3. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Bundestag elects Eva Högl as the new defense commissioner - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved May 7, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Matthias Gebauer, Konstantin von Hammerstein, DER SPIEGEL: Kahrs looks into the cannon barrel - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved May 6, 2020 . 
5. ^ Götz Hausding: German Bundestag - swearing in of the new defense commissioner Eva Högl. Retrieved May 20, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Högl biography. German Bundestag, accessed on May 1, 2020 . 
7. ↑ A trained civil servant exercises parliament taz.de, January 27, 2009
8. ^ Members of the Sports Committee - 18th Bundestag ( Memento from September 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Bundestag online, accessed on September 20, 2014.
9. ^ SPD parliamentary group: Election of the executive board , press release of December 4, 2017. Accessed on January 23, 2017.
10. ^ Members of the 2nd Committee of Inquiry - 18th Bundestag. ( Memento of July 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Bundestag , online, accessed on September 20, 2014.
11. ↑ C. Hickmann: Where are the others? About young, angry MPs who would still be good for the party today, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 40, February 18, 2015, p. 3.
12. ↑ Berlin direct candidates: Who is in - and who is out? In: Berliner Zeitung , September 24, 2017.
13. ^ Eva Högl elected Burkhard Lischka's successor. In: bundestag.de. November 7, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Bundestag approves aid to Greece: "The euro zone is at stake". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 7, 2007.
15. ↑ SPD parliamentary group vice Högl wants to expand voting rights for foreigners. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 20, 2014 ( DPA report).
16. ↑ 2. Committee of Inquiry (“Terror Group National Socialist Underground”). ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Bundestag, online.
17. ↑ Mira Gajevic: SPD wants to protect prostitutes better. In: Berliner Zeitung , October 13, 2014.
18. ↑ 250th session of the German Bundestag on June 27, 2013 , plenary minutes 17/250 (PDF; 6.5 MB).
19. ↑ 243rd session of the German Bundestag on June 6, 2013 , plenary minutes 17/243 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
20. ↑ Public hearing of the Legal Committee on June 24, 2013 on the Federal Government's draft law to combat human trafficking and to monitor prostitution sites
21. ↑ Draft of a law  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) for the implementation of Directive 2011/36 / EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on preventing and combating human trafficking and protecting its victims and replacing the framework decision 2002/629 / JHA of the Council of 21 June 2013
22. ↑ Abolition of Paragraph 219a: SPD wants its own application. In: taz.de. March 2, 2018, accessed March 21, 2018 . 
23. ↑ Helene Bubrowski: The dignity of the mother, but also of the child. In: FAZ.net. February 23, 2018, accessed March 21, 2018 . 
24. ↑ Dispute over advertising ban for abortion: SPD parliamentary deputy deletes provocative tweet . In: Spiegel Online . March 15, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 21, 2018]).
25. ^ After Högl's advance: AKK against return to conscription. Retrieved July 4, 2020 . 
26. ↑ Criticism of the reintroduction of the Bundeswehr
27. ↑ Felix Hackenbruch: After a press conference on Barcelona AfD attacks SPD politician Högl , Tagesspiegel, 20 August 2017.
28. ↑ Happy waving after the attack: SPD politician Eva Högl counters Shitstorm , n-tv, August 20, 2017.
29. ↑ Eva Högl apologizes for faux pas: when Schulz speaks about the terror of Barcelona, ​​party colleague grins in the background , Focus, August 20, 2017.
30. ↑ Jaklin Chatschadorian: The Terror Victims of Barcelona and the Laughter of Eva Högl , Jüdische Rundschau, September 8, 2017.
31. ↑ Eva Högl. In: Website of the Europa-Union Germany. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
32. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .