Heike Baehrens
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Heike Baehrens (born September 21, 1955 in Bevern ) is a German religious educator , deacon and politician ( SPD ). She has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2013 federal election .
Life
After training as a bank clerk , she studied religious education . She worked as a deacon in various church fields. Baehrens was already involved in various social work fields such as family and adult education, community work and school social work. In 1996 she became managing director of the Diakonisches Werk Württemberg , in 2002 a member of the full-time board for social policy work and deputy to the chairman of the board. As a church councilor, she was Dieter Kaufmann's deputy in the senior church council of the Protestant regional church in Württemberg . She has been married since 1977 and has two grown daughters and four grandchildren.
Political commitment
Heike Baehrens joined the SPD in 1988. From 1989 to 1996 she was a member of the Stuttgart City Council. There she was initially youth and social policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group. From 1992 to 1996 she was deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Stuttgart municipal council . In the 2013 federal election, she entered the German Bundestag for the first time via the SPD state list of Baden-Württemberg for the Göppingen constituency. She was re-elected in 2017.
Baehrens is Chair of the Subcommittee on Global Health , a full member of the Committee on Health and a deputy member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development and Deputy Chair of the German-Korean Parliamentary Group. She is the care representative of the SPD parliamentary group and deputy spokeswoman for the Baden-Württemberg state group and deputy spokeswoman for the health working group of her parliamentary group.
Heike Baehrens is a member of the social chamber of the Evangelical Church in Germany and of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and an extensive European unification process. In addition, she is a member of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO), the German-Korean Society, the Theaterhausverein Stuttgart, and honorary chairwoman of the Göppingen District Disability Association.
Heike Baehrens is co-editor of the magazine " Berliner Republik ".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boards of the parliamentary groups in the 18th electoral term ( memento of the original from November 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Heike Baehrens. In: Website of the European Union. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Baehrens, Heike |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German religious educator and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bevern |