Gerlinde Schermer

Gerlinde Schermer (born February 18, 1956 in Stolberg (Harz) ) is a German economist and politician ( SPD ). Schermer was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1991 to 1999 .

Life

Gerlinde Schermer attended the Polytechnic High School in Stolberg until 1972. She has a degree in business administration from a university of applied sciences.

From 1977 to 1987 she worked in several companies, first in Erfurt and then until 1990 in Berlin. She currently works as a self-employed tax agent.

politics

Gerlinde Schermer joined the SPD in 1990 and was a member of its Berlin state executive from then until 1998, and from 1994 to 1996 as deputy state chairwoman. She was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1991, to which she belonged until 1999. In the controversy over the partial privatization of Berliner Wasserbetriebe , it did not follow the SPD's line and campaigned against the sale of 49.9 percent of the shares to private investors. In the decisive roll-call vote on April 29, 1999 in the Berlin House of Representatives, she voted, together with the two other SPD deviants Michael Müller and Peter Korch, against the recommendation of the SPD-CDU coalition. Your renewed candidacy in 2012 was unsuccessful.

She is currently particularly active against the privatization of public goods.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 324.

Web links

• Website of Gerlinde Schermer
• Gerlinde Schermer at Parliament Watch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Printed matter 13/3613, p. 4546 f. of the Berlin House of Representatives, 13th electoral term, 62nd session on April 29, 1999, roll-call vote on the law on the partial privatization of Berliner Wasserbetriebe