Hildegard Bentele

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Hildegard Bentele (2018)

Hildegard Bentele (born May 22, 1976 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German politician ( CDU ). She has been a member of the European Parliament since July 2019 . She had previously been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since 2011 .

Career

Bentele graduated from the Margarete-Steiff-Gymnasium in Giengen an der Brenz in 1995 and then studied political science , history and public law at the University of Heidelberg until 1997 .

From 1997 to 1998 he went on to study at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Erasmus grant) and until 1999 at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin . From 1999 to 2000 she studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles and also completed internships at the Permanent Representation of Germany to the European Union and the European Parliament .

Bentele has been a political scientist since 2001 .

In 2002 she joined as a civil servant in the higher service of the Foreign Office and was among others lecturer in the economics department, the Department for International Energy Policy and the US Unit. From 2005 to 2008 she was employed at the German embassies in Zagreb and Tehran .

Between 2010 and 2013 she worked as a foreign policy advisor for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and was on leave from the Foreign Office. She has been on parental leave since 2013 .

Most recently, Bentele held a post with the title of lecturer in the Legation Council . When you accept your mandate in the European Parliament, your civil servant status is suspended.

politics

Bentele has been a member of the CDU Berlin since 2002 and was involved in various functions, including from 2013 to 2015 as chairwoman of the Innsbrucker Platz local association; also as deputy chairperson of the specialist forums on education and Europe and foreign policy .

In 2004, 2009 and 2014 she ran for the European Parliament on the CDU Berlin state list.

In 2016 she moved to the Lichtenrade local association within the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district association. She is currently a member of the district executive and is a district and state party congress delegate. From January 2017 to February 2019 she was deputy chairwoman of the CDU Lichtenrade. Hildegard Bentele has been a member of the local board as an assessor since February 26, 2019.

In 2018 she was in Helsinki for the CDU Berlin delegate at the congress of the European People's Party .

As a member of the European Parliament , she has been an advisory member of the CDU Berlin's state executive committee since July 2019. In addition, she heads the regional committee for Europe within her party and is a delegate to the EPP Congress.

Berlin House of Representatives (2011-2019)

17th legislative period (2011-2016)

On September 18, 2011, Bentele was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives for the first time on the state list to enter parliament . Within the CDU parliamentary group, she performed the tasks of school policy and European policy spokesperson.

18th legislative period (2016-2019)

In the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives on September 18, 2016, she ran for the constituency of Tempelhof-Schöneberg 7 ( Lichtenrade ) and won the direct mandate with 33.8% of the first votes .

During the 18th legislative period she was a full member of the Committee on Education, Youth and Family and the Committee on Science, and was the spokesperson for education policy and head of the Education and Science working group of the CDU parliamentary group.

Bentele has also been the coordinator of the working group of educational policy spokespersons for the CDU parliamentary groups since November 2017 and deputy chairwoman of the CDU parliamentary group in Berlin since September 11, 2018.

After she was elected to the European Parliament, Bentele resigned from the House of Representatives on July 31, 2019, which also ceased her functions in the parliamentary group. Markus Klaer was the successor .

European Parliament (since 2019)

As in 2004, 2009 and 2014, Bentele applied for a promising place on the list for the elections to the European Parliament in May 2019 in autumn 2018. After she originally occupied second place on the list, which was approved by the CDU state executive, she ran surprisingly during of the regional assembly of representatives of the CDU Berlin on November 10, 2018 in a vote against the first-placed District Councilor Carsten Spallek and prevailed with a clear majority.

The previous MEP Joachim Zeller had already renounced a new candidacy in advance.

In the elections on May 26, 2019 , Bentele finally won a mandate. She has been a member of the European Parliament since the constituent session on July 2, 2019, where she belongs to the Group of the European People's Party .

9th legislative period (since 2019)

In the current legislative period, Bentele is a full member of the Development Committee and the Delegation for Relations with Canada. She is also a deputy member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety , the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the delegation in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Exchange.

After Great Britain left the European Union on January 31, 2020 , some changes were made in the committees. In addition to her full membership in the Development Committee, Bentele also took on full membership in the Committee for Industry, Energy and Research in February 2020. She also became a member of the Association and Stabilization Delegation with Montenegro .

She gave her first speech in the European Parliament on September 17, 2019.

Private

Hildegard Bentele is married to the Croatian diplomat Ivan Bojanić and has two children. She speaks English and French and has basic knowledge of Spanish and Croatian.

Web links

Commons : Hildegard Bentele  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.hildegard-bentele.de/data/documents/2019/03/29/3-5c9dd08c2ba10.pdf CV of Hildegard Bentele, accessed on September 5, 2019
  2. ^ Board of the CDU Lichtenrade. In: CDU Lichtenrade. January 2017, accessed on March 15, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Representative of the district executive committee. In: CDU district association Tempelhof Schöneberg. 2017, accessed on March 15, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Bentele and Stand are now part of the CDU parliamentary group. In: Berliner Morgenpost. September 12, 2018, accessed on September 12, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ Markus Klaer accepts the mandate. In: Websote of the Berlin House of Representatives. July 29, 2019, accessed on July 29, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Robert Kiesel: Bentele: "You have to know Europe to be able to do it". In: Tagesspiegel. November 10, 2018, accessed on November 10, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ Jens Anker: MP Bentele leads Berlin CDU in European elections. In: Berliner Morgenpost . November 10, 2018, archived from the original on April 21, 2019 (German).;
  8. ↑ Hildegard Bentele on the website of the European Parliament. July 2019, accessed on July 4, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Bentele, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and politician (CDU), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg