Inge Wettig-Danielmeier

Inge Wettig-Danielmeier (2017)

Inge Wettig-Danielmeier b. Danielmeier (born October 1, 1936 in Heilbronn ) is a German politician . From 1990 to 2005 she was a member of the German Bundestag and from 1991 to 2007 Federal Treasurer of the SPD.

Life and accomplishments

Education and professional activities

After attending secondary school in Einbeck and the higher commercial school in Göttingen , she trained as a foreign correspondent and interpreter for English and Spanish . She then worked as a foreign correspondent in the import trade in Hamburg . In 1960 she passed the Abitur at the preparatory course at the University of Social Sciences in Wilhelmshaven and then began studying social sciences there, which she continued at Antioch College , Yellow Springs in Ohio and in Göttingen. In 1966 she finished her studies with a degree in social economics and worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Labor and Social Law, later at the seminar for the science of politics at the University of Göttingen .

Political activity

Inge Wettig-Danielmeier has been a member of the SPD since 1959. She was a member of the party executive from 1982 to 2007. From 1981 to 1992 she was national chairwoman of the Working Group of Social Democratic Women (ARSP) and from 1982 to 1992 also chairwoman of the commission for education policy of the SPD party executive. From 1991 to 2007 she was federal treasurer of the SPD. Until 2017 she was chairwoman of the trust supervisory board of the SPD.

Inge Wettig-Danielmeier was a member of the district council of the Göttingen district from 1968 to 1973 and of the state parliament of Lower Saxony from 1972 to 1990 .

From 1990 to 2005 she was a member of the German Bundestag . In 1990 and 1994 she entered the Bundestag via the Lower Saxony state list and then as a directly elected member of the Göttingen constituency .

As Federal Treasurer of the SPD, Inge Wettig-Danielmeier was general trustee for the Social Democratic Party of Germany. As such, she was a partner in the Deutsche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (DDVG) and the concentration GmbH . During her term of office, the restitution of the SPD assets in the former GDR fell , in particular real estate, which after their renovation mostly remained in the property of the SPD. She was the builder of the new SPD federal headquarters ( Willy-Brandt-Haus ) in Berlin. The SPD division was expanded and consolidated under her leadership, both in terms of media holdings and real estate.

Others

Inge Wettig-Danielmeier is married to the politician and author Klaus Wettig . The couple have three daughters, including Hannah Wettig .

Publications

Inge Wettig-Danielmeier, Katharina Oerder: Feminism - and tomorrow? . Berlin 2011.
Inge Wettig-Danielmeier, Matthias Linnekugel, Klaus Wettig: Handbook on party financing. Third, expanded edition, Berlin 2005
Does the quota apply? Cologne 1997
Inge Wettig-Danielmeier and Andrea Römmele : women in the Lower Saxony state parliament. Hanover 1997.

literature

Ilse Lenz : The New Women's Movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 .
Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 405.

Web links

Commons : Inge Wettig-Danielmeier - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d German Bundestag: MPs: Archives 15th electoral period. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
↑ 60 years in the SPD, forward 6/2019, p. 16

personal data
SURNAME	Wettig-Danielmeier, Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	October 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heilbronn

[bundestag-1] German Bundestag: MPs: Archives 15th electoral period. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .

[2] 60 years in the SPD, forward 6/2019, p. 16