Ewa Klamt
Ewa Klamt (born May 26, 1950 in Straubing ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 1999 to 2009 she was a member of the European Parliament and, as the coordinator of the Interior Committee there, was a member of the Executive Committee of the European People's Party . From 2010 to 2013 she was a member of the 17th German Bundestag .
Life and work
Klamt graduated from Mira Loma High School in Sacramento in 1966 . She then attended the American River College in Sacramento and the Munich campus of the University of Maryland for two years . She then worked as a translator until 1971 and was then a teacher at the Clemens-August-Gymnasium in Cloppenburg for three years . From 1974 to 1976 she worked as a freelance translator, from 1977 to 1980 as a teacher at the vocational school in Cloppenburg and from 1981 as a freelance language teacher. Klamt practiced this profession until 1999 and gave it up after her election to the European Parliament.
Political party
From 1995 to 1997 Ewa Klamt was a member of the board of the CDU district association Lüneburg as an assessor. From 1997 to 2011 she was deputy chairwoman of the CDU district association of Northeast Lower Saxony (until the renaming in 2005, district association Lüneburg). Since 1998, Ewa Klamt has been a member of the CDU regional executive committee in Lower Saxony.
MPs
European Parliament
In 1999 Ewa Klamt was elected to the European Parliament via the CDU Lower Saxony state list. She was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and was a deputy for the Fisheries Committee and the Committee on Budgets . She was also a member of the delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand .
In the discussion about illegal immigration to Europe in the summer of 2005, Ewa Klamt took a position as domestic policy spokeswoman for the EPP-ED group in the European Parliament. She criticized the decision of the EU Parliament's Interior Committee, which she said was passed by a narrow majority, to issue large quantities of valid residence documents to illegal immigrants . This would only create additional incentives for illegal immigration.
German Bundestag
In the 2009 Bundestag elections , Ewa Klamt applied unsuccessfully for the CDU for the direct mandate in the Gifhorn - Peine constituency (Lower Saxony) and failed to make it into the Bundestag. On April 29, 2010, Klamt moved into the Bundestag for Member of Parliament Astrid Grotelüschen , who moved to the cabinet of Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Wulff as Minister . She was a full member of the Committees for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth and for Education, Research and Technology Assessment and an alternate member of the Interior Committee . Klamt did not run for the Bundestag again in the 2013 Bundestag election; their membership of parliament ended with the constitution of the newly elected parliament on October 22, 2013.
Local politics
At the municipal level, Ewa Klamt held the post of Deputy Mayor of the City of Gifhorn from 1991 to 1999 and was a member of the district council in the Gifhorn district from 1996 to 2006 .
Web links
- Ewa Klamt's website
- Biography at the German Bundestag
- Entry on Ewa Klamt in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
- Ewa Klamt on parliament watch.de
supporting documents
- ↑ Jörg Brokmann: I can get a direct mandate against Heil. In: Newsclick.de , June 14, 2008.
- ↑ Ewa Klamt Member of the Bundestag. Farewell letter. ( Memento from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: EwaKlamt.de , October 1, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klamt, Ewa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU). Member of the Bundestag, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Straubing |