Gitta does not mourn

Gitta Trauernicht, 2013

Brigitte "Gitta" Trauernicht-Jordan (born April 30, 1951 in Emden ) is a former German politician ( SPD ). She was Minister of Social Affairs of Lower Saxony from 2000 to 2003 and Minister of Social Affairs of Schleswig-Holstein from 2004 to 2009 ; she was also a member of the state parliament in both countries .

education and profession

After GCSEs Gitta Trauernicht made first a training for laboratory chemist and chemical engineer and was then in various companies of the food control and medical technology in Emden and Bonn operates. On her second educational path , she caught up with her Abitur and then completed a degree in sociology , educational science and German philology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , which she completed with a Magister Artium . Your doctorate as Dr. phil. took place in 1989 at the Department of Social Pedagogy and Adult Education at the Technical University of Berlin with the work "Outliers and Trebegängerinnen - theoretical explanations, problem definitions of youth welfare, structural causes of family flight and self-statements of girls" . From 1984 to 1989 she worked first as a research assistant and later as managing director at the Institute for Social Work e. V. active in Münster. From 1989 to 1995 she was Senate Director and Head of the Office for Youth of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Gitta Trauernicht is married and has a daughter.

Party membership and seats in parliament

Gitta Trauernicht has been a member of the SPD since 1987. From March 4, 2003 to June 23, 2004 she was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament in its 15th electoral term ; She won her mandate through the state list of the SPD Lower Saxony . From March 17, 2005 to October 31, 2014 she was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament ; in the state elections in 2005 , 2009 and 2012 , it entered the state parliament via the SPD's state list. During the 17th legislative period (2009–2012) she held office as vice-president, in the 18th legislative period from 2012 until her resignation she was deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group .

Public offices

1995 Trauernicht became a State Councilor of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Vocational Training appointed the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. After the general election in 1997 , the newly elected First Mayor Ortwin Runde appointed her head of the Senate Chancellery .

On December 13, 2000, Trauernicht entered the state government led by Prime Minister Sigmar Gabriel as Minister for Women, Labor and Social Affairs of Lower Saxony . After the sole ruling SPD lost the state elections in 2003 , it left the government on March 4, 2003.

On May 26, 2004, she was appointed Minister for Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection in the state government of Schleswig-Holstein led by Prime Minister Heide Simonis . From April 27, 2005 she was a member of the cabinet of the grand coalition led by Prime Minister Peter Harry Carstensen as Minister for Social Affairs, Health, Family, Youth and Seniors. After the break of the grand coalition, Trauernicht and the three other SPD ministers were dismissed from their offices by the Prime Minister at the end of July 21, 2009. Christian von Boetticher was her successor as Minister of Social Affairs .

In her capacity as a member of the government, Gitta Trauernicht was also a deputy member of the Federal Council : from December 13, 2000 to March 4, 2003 for Lower Saxony and again from May 26, 2004 to July 21, 2009 for Schleswig-Holstein.

Web links

Commons : Gitta Trauernicht  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Gitta Trauernicht in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prime Minister Peter Harry Carstensen dismisses social democratic ministers ( memento of June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), press release of July 20, 2009