Gabriele Warminski-Leitheußer

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Gabriele Warminski-Leitheußer (2011)

Gabriele Warminski-Leitheußer (born February 26, 1963 in Waltrop ) is a German politician . From May 2011 to January 2013 she was State Minister for Culture, Youth and Sport of Baden-Württemberg in the Kretschmann I cabinet for the SPD .

education and profession

Warminski-Leitheußer graduated from high school in Waltrop in 1982 and then completed a 4-year training course for the higher non-technical service at the Recklinghausen district administration with an accompanying 2-year technical college degree to become a graduate in administration. She then worked as a clerk and studied law at the Ruhr University in Bochum between 1986 and 1994 .

politics

After becoming a member of the Jusos at the age of 16 , she resigned from the SPD in 1992 because of the asylum compromise . In 1999, however, she rejoined the party. From November 28, 2009 to November 14, 2011 she was a member of the state executive committee of the SPD Baden-Württemberg .

Until 2000, Warminski-Leitheußer was the legal co-director of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district . From 2000 to 2008 she was head of the Unna district , initially until 2005 for family, youth, health and consumer protection, then for work, social affairs, culture and media. From March 2008 to May 2011 she was mayor for education, youth, sport and health of the city of Mannheim .

Before the state elections in 2011 , she was appointed to the shadow cabinet by the top SPD candidate Nils Schmid as an education expert. May 12, 2011 Warminski-Leitheußer was as Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of Baden-Wuerttemberg in the green-red cabinet by Winfried Kretschmann sworn. On January 7, 2013, Warminski-Leitheußer resigned from her ministerial office under pressure from her party. Then she resigned from the SPD.

Political positions

Warminski-Leitheußer had meanwhile given up plans to reintroduce the nine-year high school in Baden-Württemberg, although she is a critic of the eight-year high school train. It also abolished the obligation to recommend elementary schools and introduced community schools as a new type of school.

On August 5, 2011 it was announced that English in primary school grades 1 and 2 is expected to be abolished again. The minister had pointed out that English in elementary school had little or no negative impact on language comprehension. Even under Warminski-Leitheusser's predecessor Helmut Rau , massive problems with English in elementary school had become known.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Warminski-Leitheußer - Strebsam im Pisa-Musterländle FAZ May 5, 2011
  2. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung May 11, 2011
  3. ^ Minister of Culture in Baden-Württemberg Warminski-Leitheußer resigns stuttgarter-zeitung.de, accessed on January 7, 2013
  4. ^ Stuttgart: Kretschmann confirms resignation Morgenweb.de, accessed on January 7, 2013
  5. ↑ What the SPD ministers of the former green-red state government are doing today
  6. ↑ Interview with Spiegel Online on October 30, 2011
  7. ↑ Green-red defends off for elementary school recommendation
  8. ^ Südwestpresse May 14, 2011 ( Memento from September 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Pforzheimer Zeitung from August 5, 2011 ( Memento from August 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Warminski-Leitheußer, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltrop