Frauke Heiligenstadt

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Frauke Heiligenstadt, 2013

Frauke Heiligenstadt (born March 24, 1966 in Northeim ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . From 2013 to 2017 she was Lower Saxony's Minister of Culture in the Weil I cabinet .

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1985 at Corvinianum in Northeim , Heiligenstadt studied at the University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice in Hanover . In 1988 she completed her studies and worked for the Northeim city ​​administration as a graduate administrator until she was elected to the state parliament .

politics

Heiligenstadt as a member of the Weil cabinet

Heiligenstadt has been a member of the SPD since 1982. She is the deputy chairwoman of the Northeim-Einbeck sub-district and was a member of the Gillersheim local council from 1986 to 2011 . From 1999 to 2006 she was the local mayor there. Since 1991 she has also been a member of the council, from 1996 to 2011 she was alderman and from 2006 to 2011 deputy mayor of the community of Katlenburg-Lindau . Since 2006 she has been a member of the district council of Northeim , where she is deputy. Leader of the SPD parliamentary group. She has been a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament since 2003 . There she was the spokesperson for cultural and school policy. Heiligenstadt is a member of ver.di , the workers' welfare organization and some local associations.

In the state election on January 27, 2008 , she received 44.1 percent of the vote in the constituency 18 Northeim .

Heiligenstadt is an assessor on the board of the SPD district of Hanover and represents it on the federal party council .

On February 19, 2013, the Lower Saxony State Parliament confirmed her appointment as Lower Saxony Education Minister by Stephan Weil ; she succeeded Bernd Althusmann and chaired the board of trustees of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation in Celle.

From 2013 to 2017 Heiligenstadt was a full member of the Federal Council .

criticism

The school policy of the state government brought Heiligenstadt increasingly into the media from August 2013. A particularly controversial measure was the increase in the number of compulsory hours for high school teachers by one lesson, which earned her criticism from teachers' associations, especially since she rejected studies of the actual working hours of teachers on the grounds that " one cannot gain any knowledge with bookkeeping ". The high school teachers then refused to continue to carry out free class trips, which they are not obliged to do under Lower Saxony school law. With the support of the Philologists' Association and the Education and Science Union (GEW), several teachers successfully sued the controversial decree at the Lüneburg Higher Administrative Court . The justification for the judgment against the state of Lower Saxony on June 9, 2015 was the lack of an investigation into the actual workload of teachers; the increase in working hours for secondary school teachers in Lower Saxony was declared illegal because the state of Lower Saxony had violated its duty of care towards the teachers. Since then, there has also been isolated criticism from within the party about the school policy of the red-green state government.

Her own earlier criticism as an opposition politician from 2009 also contradicted Heiligenstadt's controversial working time decree: At that time, she denounced the CDU's overload of teachers in Lower Saxony and urged that the teachers' workload be reduced.

When in May 2015 pupils of the Gymnasium in Brake protested against Heiligenstadt's school policy on the school homepage of their school and criticized the teacher shortage , the devaluation of the Abitur and the increase in the number of compulsory lessons for grammar school teachers, the Lower Saxony state school authority stepped in and left the article on the school homepage and by way of instructions delete a link to an article in the local press that reported on the protest action by the Brak students against the increase in hours. This censorship by the school inspectorate, which was coordinated with the minister of education, was only withdrawn after massive protests and critical reports in the national press. The headmaster was nevertheless invited to the disciplinary meeting.

Private

Frauke Heiligenstadt is married and lives with her husband and daughter in Gillersheim , a district of the Katlenburg-Lindau community . Her father was a roofer.

Web links

Commons : Frauke Heiligenstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Andretta (Ed.), Department for Press, Public Relations, Protocol: Lower Saxony State Parliament. Handbook of the Lower Saxony Parliament of the 18th electoral period. 2017 to 2022 , 1st edition, Hanover: Lower Saxony State Parliament, 2018, p. 57
  2. ^ The Lower Saxony Ministers of Education since 1946 | Nds. Ministry of Culture. Archived from the original on September 29, 2017 ; accessed on March 4, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ last elected in the district election on September 11, 2016: PDF
  4. ↑ Spokespersons for the SPD state parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament. www.spd-fraktion-niedersachsen.de ( Memento from May 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ SPD district Hanover Time for more justice. - District Board 2017. Accessed April 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Yearbook 07/08 ( Memento from September 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Bitter defeat for Minister Heiligenstadt. Die Welt from June 10th 2015
  8. ↑ spd-verden.de
  9. ↑ Frauke Heiligenstadt, Member of the State Parliament - Heiligenstadt: Heister-Neumann's latest affront against teachers. Retrieved April 5, 2019 .
  10. ^ Boos in Brake for Minister of Education. Nordwest-Zeitung, accessed: May 11, 2015
  11. ^ Authority censored school homepage. Spiegel Online, accessed: May 11, 2015
  12. ↑ Article removed: Protest over school trips - boos in Brake for minister of education. ( Memento of May 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Gymnasium Brake, accessed: May 11, 2015
  13. ^ Authority censored school homepage. www.spiegel.de, accessed on May 11, 2015
  14. ↑ R. Bingener: Rache der Gymnasiasten, in: FAZ, September 29, 2017, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Heiligenstadt, Frauke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Northeim