Heike Werner

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Heike Werner (2017)

Heike Werner (born January 30, 1969 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). From 1999 to 2014 she was a member of the Saxon state parliament and from 2019 to 2020 in the Thuringian state parliament . From December 5, 2014 to February 5, 2020 Werner was Minister for Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family of the Free State of Thuringia in the Ramelow I cabinet . On March 4, 2020, she was reappointed minister of her previous ministry in the Ramelow II cabinet .

Life

After graduating from high school , Werner did an internship with the district management of the FDJ in Zwickau from 1987 to 1989 . She then began studying Marxism-Leninism and philosophy at the University of Leipzig . After reunification , she switched to educational science and sociology in 1991 , but had to break off her studies in 1995 due to parental leave.

Werner is married and has two children.

politics

Heike Werner (front) and Freya-Maria Klinger with calls for an anti-Nazi demo on February 13, 2010 in Dresden

Werner was a member of the SED from 1988 to 1989 . In 1989 she was also one of the founding members of the Marxist youth association “Young Left” and from 1997 to 2000 was its spokesperson for Saxony . In 1999 she joined the PDS and is now a member of the Die Linke party .

Werner had also been a member of the Saxon state parliament since 1999. She always got her mandate via the state list. Since 2004 she was also one of the deputy chairmen of the left-wing parliamentary group there and during the legislative period between 2004 and 2009 a member of the Committee on School and Sport and the Committee on Science, University, Culture and the Media. During this time, she also acted as the spokeswoman for her group for science, higher education and gender equality policy. From 2009 she was finally chairman of the committee for social affairs and consumer protection and again a member of the committee for school and sport.

In the state elections in 2014 , Werner missed re-entry into the state parliament at number 27 on the list. Instead, she was appointed Minister for Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family of the Free State of Thuringia in the cabinet of Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow in the same year . In the state elections on October 27, 2019 , she entered the Thuringian state parliament via the state list . On March 4, 2020, Werner was reappointed Minister of her previous ministry in the Ramelow II cabinet . On July 13, 2020, she resigned from her state parliament mandate. It was followed by Gehl Martin-Iris by.

From 2009 to 2015 Werner was also the parliamentary group leader of the left-wing parliamentary group in the district council of the Leipzig district .

From 2016 to 2018 she was a member of the board of trustees of the Solidarity Modern Institute (ISM) .

Web links

Commons : Heike Werner  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow appoints cabinet members. Press release. Thuringian State Chancellery, 2014, accessed on January 19, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Election in the state parliament: Bodo Ramelow elected Minister-President of Thuringia , MDR Thuringia, accessed on March 4, 2020
  3. ↑ Martin-Gehl succeeds Werner as a member of the state parliament . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 13, 2020, accessed on July 14, 2020.
  4. ^ ISM: New board elected at the general assembly , April 28, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Heike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin