Gitta Connemann

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Gitta Connemann

Gitta Connemann (born Saathoff , born May 10, 1964 in Leer in East Frisia ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and lawyer . She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2002 . In January 2015 she was elected deputy group leader. She has been the federal chairwoman of the SME and Economic Union since December 2021 .

Life

biography

Gitta Connemann was born on May 10, 1964 in Leer as the daughter of the farmer Andreas Folkmar Saathoff (1932–2010) and Hilje, née Buiskool (* 1933). Her mother comes from the Dutch town of Woldendorp . She has two younger brothers and grew up in Holtland . After graduating from high school in 1983 at the Teletta-Groß-Gymnasium Leer , Connemann first did an apprenticeship as a saleswoman in a shoe store in Leer and then studied law at the University of Osnabrück and the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1984 , which she completed with the first in 1990 finished his legal state examination . After her legal clerkship , she passed the second state examination in 1993 and then worked as a lawyer in Darmstadt and Leer. In 1995 she also worked as in-house counsel at the employers' association for agriculture and cooperatives in Weser-Ems.

Connemann is a Protestant East Frisian and is particularly committed to the Frisian culture.

politics

In 1996 she joined the CDU and was elected to the council of the Hesel community , to which she belonged until 1999. Since 2001 she has been a member of the district council of the district of Leer .

Connemann has been a member of the German Bundestag for the Unterems constituency since 2002 . She succeeded Rudolf Seiters . From 2003 to 2007 she was chairwoman of the “Culture in Germany” commission of inquiry . She is the deputy chairwoman of the German- Israeli parliamentary group and is a member of the board of the SME parliamentary group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

In 2009, Connemann commissioned the Bundestag's Scientific Service to clarify whether extraterrestrial life existed. The report is now publicly available after a legal dispute. In 2011 she was one of five members of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group that did not approve the nuclear phase-out bill. In mid-2014 she was one of five members of the Bundestag who voted against the introduction of the statutory minimum wage.

Connemann has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Unterems constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election it received 47.1% of the first votes , and in the 2009 Bundestag election 45.2% of the first votes. She was able to significantly improve her result in the following federal election in 2013 with 54.7% of the first votes. In 2017 she achieved 13th place of the best first vote results with 50.0% of the first votes.

Until 2015 she was a full member of the Bundestag Committee on Food and Agriculture and its chairman.

In 2014, the DGB -Regionalverband Ostfriesland-Nördliches Emsland invited her to speak at an event on the occasion of Anti-War Day at the Esterwegen memorial . In an interview earlier, she had shown understanding for the actions of the Israeli military in the 2014 Gaza conflict .

As deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, she is responsible for the issues of agriculture and nutrition, churches and petitions. Connemann is a full member of the Joint Committee and a deputy member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture , as well as the Committee on Culture and the Media .

On December 15, 2016, Connemann received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her special services to the common good , which was presented to her by the President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert .

DOT Board of Directors with Gitta Connemann (center) and Herry Nentwig (right)

She is one of the 75 Union MPs - 68 from the CDU (26.9% of all CDU MPs) and 7 from the CSU (12.5% ​​of all CSU MPs) - who voted for same-sex marriage in July 2017 .

Connemann regularly organizes events in its constituency area under the name “Das Schwarze Sofa”. For example, she had Julia Klöckner and Wolfgang Bosbach (both also members of the CDU) as guests.

At the beginning of 2018 Connemann was a member of the exploratory group of the CDU to re-form a grand coalition between the Union and the SPD.

On December 11, 2021, Gitta Connemann was elected federal chairman of the SME and Economic Union in the second ballot with 59 percent of the delegate's votes at the digitally organized Federal SME Conference.

Election results

Bundestag election 2002 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021
First votes in% 47.4 47.1 45.2 54.7 50.0 44.4
Second votes of the CDU in% 41.7 40.5 39.1 48.8 42.4 29.9

Memberships

Since 2010 she has been Vice President of the German-Israeli Society . She is also a member of the advisory board of the American Jewish Committee Berlin and a member of the board of trustees of Aktion Sühnezeichen .

Web links

Commons : Gitta Connemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of the CDU state group Lower Saxony from January 13, 2015
  2. ↑ "You have a migration background? That surprises me!" , in: politik & kommunikation , November 7, 2016, last accessed on February 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ Gitta Connemann: "I am an East Frisian!"
  4. ↑ Connemann: "We Frisians are one people in different states, Friesland is our home."
  5. ↑ Beyond the politics of the day - the study commissions. ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: bundestag.de , accessed on December 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ Bundestag: UFO report remains under lock and key. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. April 27, 2012, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Mareike Maack: CDU MPs researched UFOs. In: The West. October 21, 2016, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  8. ↑ The search for extraterrestrial life and the implementation of UN resolution A / 33/426 on the observation of unidentified objects in flight and extraterrestrial life forms . bundestag.de. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  9. ^ Abendblatt.de: This is how the individual members voted. June 30, 2011, accessed on August 13, 2021 (German).
  10. ↑ Nationwide minimum wage of 8.50 euros . In: parliamentwatch.de . July 10, 2015 ( ab altenwatch.de [accessed on January 14, 2018]).
  11. ^ Final result of the election to the 17th German Bundestag. ( Memento from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: bundeswahlleiter.de , accessed on September 17, 2012.
  12. ^ The Federal Returning Officer : Results Unterems - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Bundestag election 2017: All results . In: Spiegel Online . September 24, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 14, 2018]).
  14. ^ Members of the Committee on Food and Agriculture. ( Memento from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: bundestag.de , accessed on September 18, 2014.
  15. ↑ Connemann unloaded: DGB fears scandal. In: Ems-Zeitung , August 6, 2014.
  16. ^ German Bundestag - MPs. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  17. ↑ High distinction: Gitta Connemann receives the Federal Cross of Merit. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , December 15, 2016, accessed on January 3, 2017.
  18. ↑ DW: Marriage for everyone: which MPs voted for and which voted against. In: welt.de . June 30, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  19. ^ Friederike Kahmann: Gitta Connemann takes part in explorations in Berlin . ( noz.de [accessed on January 14, 2018]).
  20. ↑ CDU member Gitta Connemann new MIT federal chairwoman , Ostfriesen-Zeitung, December 11, 2021.
personal data
SURNAME Connemann, Gitta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saathoff, Gitta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
BIRTH DATE May 10, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Leer (East Frisia)