Hildegard Kronawitter

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hildegard Kronawitter (2007)

Hildegard Kronawitter (born December 19, 1946 in Sumpering , Lower Bavaria ) is a former German state politician. As a member of the SPD , Kronawitter was a member of the Bavarian state parliament from 1998 to 2008 . From 1968 until his death in 2016 she was married to Georg Kronawitter , Mayor of Munich for many years . From 2009 to 2013 Kronawitter was chairwoman of the Munich Red Cross.

Life

After attending primary school, she completed a commercial apprenticeship, which she graduated with honors. Through the second educational path, she made up her secondary school leaving certificate and obtained a high school diploma. She then studied economics and business administration from 1973 to 1977 and completed her studies with a degree in economics. In 1987 she completed her doctorate in economic and social history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Her political career began in 1969 when she joined the SPD . At the side of her husband Georg Kronawitter, who was Lord Mayor of Munich from 1972 to 1978 and from 1984 to 1993, Hildegard Kronawitter took on numerous social and representative tasks. To this day she has been a committed volunteer. From 1973 she was a board member of the BRK district association in Munich, from 1993 its first deputy chairman and from 2009 to 2013 its chairman. For almost a decade she chaired Bavaria's oldest women's association, the Verein für Fraueninteressen e. V., of which she is an honorary member today. She is a member of the academy management and the educational advisory board of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria and was a member of the state committee of Catholics in Bavaria until summer 2013. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and its Institute for Bavarian History . Since 2009 she has been the first chairwoman of the White Rose Foundation. V. and carries out the management there on a voluntary basis. In June 2014 she was appointed deputy diocesan chairwoman “Sankt Michaelsbundes e. V. “, the supporting association of the Catholic media company. In addition to commercial activities, Hildegard Kronawitter worked as a lecturer in adult education.

In 1969 she joined the SPD, but did not run for a seat until the state elections in September 1998. In the Erding constituency, as a direct candidate of her party, she was clearly subject to the CSU-nominated Bavarian Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, Hans Zehetmair , but moved into the state parliament from 16th place with around 74,000 second votes on the Upper Bavarian constituency list. There she was a member of the Committee for Economics, Transport and Technology, and at times also that of Federal and European Affairs. In 2003 she was again elected to the state parliament with a very good second vote on the list. In the second legislative period, she was the deputy chairwoman of the Committee on Economics, Transport and Technology and economic policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group. To state elections in Bavaria in 2008 , they did not stand for re-election. Politically, she is only the chairwoman of the Economic Forum of Social Democracy in Munich. V. active.

Honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archdiocese of Munich: Papal orders for 13 women and men. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kronawitter, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German state politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Sumpering , Lower Bavaria