Heike Hansel

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Heike Hänsel in January 2011

Heike Hänsel (born January 1, 1966 in Stuttgart ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). She is a member of the Bundestag and deputy chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1985 at Romäusring in Villingen-Schwenningen , Heike Hänsel began studying Catholic theology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1990 she moved to the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , where she completed a degree in ecotrophology , which she completed in 1997 as a qualified ecotrophologist.

From 1997 she worked for the Society Culture of Peace and on behalf of the OSCE election observer a. a. in the elections of Mostar in 1997 and Kosovo in 2001. She was a member of the “Violeta Parra” cultural group in Tübingen, where she campaigned for the Chileans in exile and against the dictatorship of Pinochet. In 1988 she was a member of the Mikis Theodorakis Choir ( Tübingen ) in Chile at the large international cultural meeting “Chile Crea”.

Hänsel has been active in the peace movement since 1988 and in the Attac movement, which is critical of globalization, since 2001 . From 2001 to 2003 she belonged to the coordination group of Attac Germany and from 2004 to 2005 she was the spokeswoman for the EU AG of Attac Germany.

Political party

Heike Hänsel became a member of Linkspartei.PDS , today's Die Linke party . In March 2006, Hansel signed the call for founding of the anti-capitalist left (AKL), which was observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and classified as left-wing extremist .

MPs

Heike Hänsel has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2005 . Here she is development policy spokeswoman for the left-wing parliamentary group . It entered the Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list. On November 3, 2015, she was elected deputy chairman of the left parliamentary group. Since the beginning of the current legislative period, she has been the head of the foreign policy working group of the left-wing parliamentary group and thus deputy chairwoman.

In the 19th German Bundestag , Hansel is the chairwoman of the United Nations, International Organizations and Globalization Committee . She is also a full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a deputy member of the Defense Committee , the Joint Committee and the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development .

While the governments of France, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom jointly declared Russia to be responsible in the Skripal case on the basis of the available evidence , Hansel doubted this: “too many inconsistencies and unanswered questions”. In the same article, she also described the chlorine gas attack in Douma, Syria, as "alleged".

In July 2018, Hansel criticized the planned admission of members of the Syrian civil protection organization Weißhelme to Germany because they were "demonstrably close to Islamist terror groups". Several party friends then distanced themselves indignantly from Hansel.

Toilet affair around Gregor Gysi

On November 10, 2014 there was an open confrontation between the Israel-critical journalists Max Blumenthal and David Sheen, accompanied by MPs Annette Groth , Inge Höger and Heike Hänsel, and the parliamentary group chairman Gregor Gysi , during which he pressed and excepted Toilet was tracked. This was preceded by an Israel-critical event planned for November 9 in the Berlin Volksbühne , which was canceled after several MPs complained, as well as the prohibition of an alternative event in the rooms of the left-wing faction by the faction chairman.

Web links

Commons : Heike Hänsel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Founding appeal “For an anti-capitalist left”. (PDF) March 2006, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  2. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Gift-fuer-die-internationale-Friedensordnung-4154577.html
  4. ^ Asylum for Julian Assange, not for Syrian "white helmets". In: www.heike-haensel.de. July 23, 2018, accessed July 26, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Martin Niewendick: Why a Left is against the admission of persecuted people. In: www.welt.de. July 25, 2018. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hansel, Heike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart