Gülseren Demirel

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Gülseren Demirel (born September 10, 1964 in Malatya , Turkey ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) of Kurdish descent and since 2018 the directly elected member of the state parliament of the Munich-Giesing district . She has been a member of the Munich City Council since 2008 and has been chairwoman of the Green Party - pink list since 2012. Demirel is also a member of the Committee on Constitution, Law, Parliamentary Issues and Integration in the Bavarian State Parliament.

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Life

Gülseren Demirel's parents were workers. She grew up as a toddler in the Turkish province of Malatya and came to Germany with her parents for the first time at the age of six. She started school here before returning to Turkey for some time in 1977. Before the Turkish military coup , she came back to Germany in 1979 and graduated from secondary school in Gütersloh in 1981 .

At the beginning of the 1990s she trained as a social worker at the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) in Munich and after completing her training she worked in various social counseling and care services for migrants. In addition, Gülseren Demirel volunteered in various migrant groups and represented their interests. At the same time, she made up her Abitur in 2003 on her second educational path. She studied in Hamburg at the Ev. University of Social Work & Diakonie and graduated in 2008 with the degree of Diplom-Sozialpädagogin. Demirel also continues to work as a social pedagogue for the AWO in Munich .

Private

Gülseren Demirel is divorced and has a daughter (* 1987). She lives in a permanent partnership in Munich.

politics

In 1995 Gülseren Demirel became a member of the Greens. After holding various party offices, she was elected to the Munich City Council for The Greens in 2008. She is a member of the social, district administration and child and youth welfare committee.

In 2017, she announced that she was running for the Bavarian State Parliament . She was elected as a direct candidate for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Munich-Giesing district and on the list of applicants for the Upper Bavarian Greens. In a survey about the familiarity of the Munich parliamentary group leaders in the city council, she came in second to last.

In 2018 Gülseren Demirel won the direct mandate in the Munich-Giesing constituency with a clear majority of 30.9 percent and has been a member of the Bavarian State Parliament since then.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiner Effern, Kassian Stroh: The Greens fully rely on Munich. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 28, 2018, accessed June 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Survey 2: Sympathy values ​​and degree of awareness of the town hall politicians on muenchen.de, accessed on June 6, 2018.
  3. ^ Valerie Höhne: Green Kurdish wins in Munich - "For many, I am a provocation". In: Spiegel ONLINE. October 19, 2018, accessed June 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Demirel, Gülseren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Malatya , Turkey