Evelyne Gebhardt

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Evelyne Gebhardt (2009)

Evelyne Marie-Thérèse Gebhardt (born January 19, 1954 in Montreuil ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994 .

Life

Evelyne Gebhardt was born in Montreuil near Paris . She graduated from high school in 1972 at the Lycée Lamartine in Paris. She then studied linguistics at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, the University of Tübingen and the University of Stuttgart, with a minor in political science and economics . In Paris she graduated from License ès Lettres . She has been working as a freelance translator since 1977. She also gives lectures at home and abroad on the topics of equality , civil rights and biotechnology and genetic engineering . She made expert assignments in South America and Africa for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation .

Unless she is in Strasbourg or Brussels , she lives in Mulfingen in the Hohenlohe district . It maintains a constituency office in Künzelsau .

Evelyne Gebhardt is married.

Political career

Evelyne Gebhardt graduated with a License ès Lettres in Paris and was a freelance translator from 1977. She moved to Germany in 1975 and joined the SPD in the same year. There he took on various functions at the local association and district level. From 1989 to 2001 she was a member of the SPD state executive committee of Baden-Württemberg . Since 1985 she has been on the federal executive committee of the Working Group of Social Democratic Women (ARSP), initially as an assessor and since 1992 as deputy ARSP federal chairwoman.

She has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994. For the European elections in 2004 she was favored by the party executive as the top candidate for Baden-Württemberg . In the list drawn up by the SPD, Ulrich Maurer surprisingly ran as the opposing candidate, who was critical of the SPD leadership around Gerhard Schröder on economic and socio-political issues and later switched to the WASG . Gebhardt prevailed in a vote for first place against the former SPD state chairman with 72.9 percent to 27.1 percent. Gebhardt was re-elected to the European Parliament for the Social Democrats via the safe list position 12 on the federal list. In 2009 she took second place on the SPD's federal list and was thus re-elected to the European Parliament. In January 2017 she became Vice President of the European Parliament.

Her main topics are bioethics , consumer protection and civil rights . She is the coordinator of the Socialist Group in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection . Gebhardt was significantly involved in the so-called Bolkestein Directive .

Gebhardt is a member of the Committee for Internal Market and Consumer Protection and of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China. She is a deputy in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs , in the Special Committee against Organized Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering and in the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia. She is a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group European Parliament . Since 2013 she has been the state chairwoman of the European Union in Baden-Württemberg. She was re-elected to the EU Parliament for the 2019-2024 election period.

Controversy

Evelyne Gebhardt was part of a program broadcast in 2010 in the program Explosiv - Das Magazin about the illegal receipt of daily money in the EU Parliament.

Other memberships

She has been a member of the Marie Schlei Association since 1990, a member of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine since 1997, a member of the Board of Trustees of the LAG youth art schools since 1990 and a member of the Against Forgetting - For Democracy association since 2000 .

Honors

In 1999 Evelyne Gebhardt received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

In 2017 she received the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

literature

  • Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German parliamentarians from 1919 until today . State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-923476-15-9 , p. 338 ff .

Web links

Commons : Evelyne Gebhardt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ These are our new members of the EU Parliament in: Focus
  2. ↑ Evelyne Gebhardt elected EP Vice-President. Südwestrundfunk , January 18, 2017, accessed January 19, 2017 .
  3. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  4. ↑ State Board. (No longer available online.) Baden-Württemberg regional association of the Europa-Union Deutschland e. V., archived from the original on July 5, 2016 ; Retrieved July 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eubw.eu
  5. ↑ Evelyne Gebhardt: "Full strength for a social Europe" . Evelyne Gebhardt. May 27, 2019. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ Results of the 2019 European elections in Baden-Württemberg
  7. ↑ LokalFernsehen: Green embarrassment for EU members of the European Union when it comes to creaming in Brussels. European elections topic. May 18, 2014, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  8. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Evelyn Gebhardt. In: schwaebische.de. March 15, 2017. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gebhardt, Evelyne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gebhardt, Evelyne Marie-Thérèse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreuil