Eva Jähnigen
Eva Beate Jähnigen (born November 2, 1965 in Dresden ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 2005 to 2010 she was the state board spokeswoman for her party in Saxony and from 2009 to 2015 a member of the Saxon state parliament . Since September 2015 Jähnigen Councilor for Environment and communal services in Dresden.
Life
After completing school in a Dresden POS, Jähnigen completed vocational training with a high school diploma as a toolmaker . She then worked as a nursing assistant in the Dresden-Friedrichstadt hospital and qualified as a nurse via distance learning. From 1991 she studied law at the TU Dresden and in 2000 after a legal clerkship in Saxony, she passed the second state examination in law. In 2001 she was admitted to the bar with a focus on administrative and social law and founded a law firm with a colleague.
In the last years of the GDR politicized by problems of democracy, the environment and the social, the resulting contacts in the independent peace and civil movement of the GDR became a formative experience. After the end of the GDR, her engagement focused on the environment, citizen participation, urban development and traffic. From 1991 to 2011 she was an honorary city councilor in Dresden and from 1994 to 2009, with short interruptions, the parliamentary group spokesperson for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and for many years a member of the environmental and urban development committees.
In 2008 she ran for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the mayoral election in Dresden and achieved 9.88% of the votes cast, she was also the state board spokeswoman of her party in Saxony from 2005 to 2010 and did not run again in 2010 because of the mandate she had received in the meantime.
From 2013 to 2015 she was the spokeswoman for the Dresden city association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and in this role she helped to establish a cooperation between the left, the Greens and the SPD after the 2014 local elections, which holds the majority in the Dresden city council.
In the 5th Saxon state parliament , she was the domestic policy spokeswoman for the Alliance 90 / The Greens parliamentary group. Other focal points were local politics, transport and state and regional development. In the 6th Saxon state parliament, she became the legal policy spokesperson for her parliamentary group and took on responsibility for communal matters and transport as well as for equality. For the state elections in 2009 and 2014, she stood in the constituency of Dresden-Pieschen and entered the Saxon state parliament via the state list of the Greens.
After being elected environmental mayor of the city of Dresden on August 6, 2015, she resigned from the Saxon state parliament on August 11, 2015. She was appointed to office on September 4, 2015.
Jähnigen lives in Dresden-Trachenberge, is married and has two daughters.
Web links
- Mayor election of Dresden 2008 (Stadtwiki Dresden)
- Mayor Eva Jähnigen - Alderman for the Environment and Local Services
Individual evidence
- ↑ Retired MPs: Eva Jähnigen , accessed on September 14, 2015
- ↑ Swearing in with restrictions , accessed on September 14, 2015
- ↑ Landtag: Successors with the Greens and Leftists
State board spokespersons : Gunda Röstel (1991–1994) | Gerda Viecenz (1994-1996) | Kornelia Müller (1996–1999) | Pino Olbrich (1999-2001) | Eva Jähnigen (2005–2010) | Claudia Maicher (2010–2014) | Christin Bahnert (2014–2016) | Christin Melcher (2016–2020) | Christin Furtenbacher (since 2020)
State board spokesman: Heiko Weigel (1991–1994) | Karl-Heinz Gerstenberg (1994-2005) | Claus Krüger (2005–2007) | Rudolf Haas (2007–2009) | Volkmar Zschocke (2010–2014) | Jürgen Kasek (2014–2018) | Norman Volger (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jähnigen, Eva |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jähnigen, Eva Beate (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |