Hildegard Wester

Hildegard Wester b. Peters (born December 28, 1949 in Rheydt ) is a German politician ( SPD ). With interruptions she was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2009.

Life

Wester attended secondary school and then passed a special test with which she was allowed to attend college despite having completed secondary school. She studied at the Pedagogical University of Rhineland, where she passed the first and second state exams. After completing her studies, she became a secondary school teacher and later worked as a full-time pedagogical employee at the Neue Gesellschaft Niederrhein in the field of adult education. From 1984 she worked as a freelancer. Wester is married and has three daughters.

politics

Wester joined the SPD in 1971 and later became deputy chairwoman of the Mönchengladbach SPD sub-district. In the federal election in 1990 she was able to enter the Bundestag for the first time (via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia). There she was a full member of the Committee on Education and Science and the Committee on Family and Seniors. In the 1994 federal election , she again entered parliament via the state list, where she was a member of the Committee on Family, Seniors, Women and Youth and also the Petitions Committee. In the 1998 Bundestag election she moved into parliament with the direct mandate of constituency 78 (Mönchengladbach), where she was a full member of the Joint Committee and the Mediation Committee. In January 2001 Wester became deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group and remained so until she was no longer re-elected in her constituency in the 2002 federal election . Also because of her place on the list, she missed the new entry. In October 2004, however, she was able to move up via the state list when the SPD member Jochen Welt was elected district administrator in the Recklinghausen district and therefore withdrew from parliament. After the Bundestag election in 2005 , she left parliament again, but replaced MP Rainer Wend , who resigned on April 1, 2009 . After the federal election in 2009 , she left parliament again.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 944.

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag