Gabriele Andretta

Gabriele Andretta (born March 7, 1961 in Morbach , Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and has been President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament since November 14, 2017 .

Life

Andretta attended elementary school in Hundheim between 1967 and 1971 ; From 1971 she attended the Nikolaus-von-Kues-Gymnasium in Bernkastel-Kues , from which she graduated in 1980 with the Abitur.

She began studying social sciences , economics and psychology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 1980 and graduated in 1985 with a degree in social economics . In 1990 he received his doctorate at the Institute for Social Policy at the University of Göttingen with a dissertation on the conceptual assessment of social policy as a life situation policy . Andretta was a study and doctoral scholarship holder of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung . During her PhD from 1986 to 1991 she was Research Associate at the Institute of Ingeborg Nahnsen (Institute for Social Policy at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Göttingen).

After completing her doctorate, she worked for five years as a research assistant at the Sociological Research Institute at the University of Göttingen (SOFI); Main focus of work: occupational and labor market research , socio-structural transformation processes. From 1995 to 1998 she was a university assistant at the Sociological Seminar of the University of Göttingen.

Andretta lives in Göttingen and has two children.

MPs

Andretta has been a directly elected member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the Göttingen-Stadt state electoral district since 1998 . Despite poor election results for the SPD nationwide, in 2003 it successfully defended its direct mandate against Fritz Güntzler ( CDU ); She was able to repeat this success in 2008. In 2013 and 2017 she won the direct mandate with a clear majority (2013 against Holger Welskop, 2017 against Ludwig Theuvsen ).

Gabriele Andretta with Prime Minister Stephan Weil and Holocaust survivor Yvonne Koch ;
in the Lower Saxony state parliament on November 9, 2018, the 80th anniversary of the November pogroms

Since 2017, Gabriele Andretta has been a member of the committee for the preparation of the election and approval in accordance with Article 70, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution, the committee for the preparation of the election of the members of the State Court of Justice, the presidium and the council of elders.

In the state parliament she is a member of the committee for science and culture; until 2003 she was a member of the culture committee. From February 2003 to February 2013 Andretta was the spokesperson for science. From June 2005 to February 2013 she was deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group; she is also a member of the council of elders of the state parliament. Until 2017, Andretta was a member of the Committee on Economy, Labor and Transport. She is part of the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group .

Gabriele Andretta was appointed to his government team by the SPD's top candidate Stephan Weil for the 2013 state elections ; after the change of government she was to become Minister for Science and Culture. During the coalition negotiations, however, it was decided that Gabriele Heinen-Kljajic from Alliance 90 / The Greens would take over this office.

On February 19, 2013 Gabriele Andretta was elected Vice President of the State Parliament.

On November 14, 2017, she was unanimously elected President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament at the constitutive session of the 18th electoral term.

With 38.89 percent and a margin of 5,800 votes Gabriele Andretta well has for the fifth time in a row in the state election in 2017 the constituency 17 obtained directly.

Political party

1980 to 1985 member of the Juso-Hochschulgruppe Göttingen, active in student self-administration (member of the student parliament and council at the University of Göttingen), joined the union as a student in 1982 , joined the SPD in 1983. This was followed by numerous functions with the Jusos in the SPD district of Hanover and in the former SPD local association Göttingen (today the SPD city association Göttingen).

A total of 17 years (from 1988 to 2005) she was a member of the executive board of the SPD district of Hanover, from 2001 to 2005 as its deputy chairwoman. From 1996 to 2006 Andretta was a member of the Basic Values Commission of the SPD and from 2001 to 2007 a member of the board of the SPD City Association of Göttingen, from 2004 as its chairman. She has been a member of the state party council since 2008 .

In 1998 she was a founding member of the Social Democratic Science Forum in the SPD district of Hanover and has been its deputy chairwoman ever since.

Memberships

Andretta has the following memberships: Ver.di , Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO), German Child Protection Association , Education Forum at the SPD party executive, University Initiative Democratic Socialism (HDS), Förderverein Junge Theater Göttingen e. V., Association for the Promotion of Jusos Göttingen, Kulturpforte Göttingen.

She is a member of the foundation council of the community foundation and of the advisory board of the Göttingen cultural foundation.