Irina von Wiese

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Irina von Wiese (2019)

Irina Stephanie von Wiese and Kaiserswaldau , in Great Britain mostly Irina von Wiese (born September 11, 1967 in Cologne ) is a German-British lawyer and politician of the Liberal Democrats . She was a member of the European Parliament from 2019 to January 31, 2020 .

Life

Irina von Wiese comes from the original Silesian noble family von Wiese and Kaiserswaldau . She is a granddaughter of Leopold von Wiese . Her grandmother, Leopold von Wieses third wife Nathalie Garetzeloff, came from Georgia and came to Weimar as a refugee in 1923 .

She studied law at the University of Munich and obtained a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School in 1994 . She did part of her legal clerkship at the EU Commission and in the administration of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament . She was admitted to the German bar in 1996. In the same year she moved to the UK , where she was approved as a solicitor for England and Wales in 1998 . In London she worked as Antitrust Director for the GSM Association .

She has German and British citizenship .

politics

Irina von Wiese's interest in European politics was aroused during her time at Harvard by her lecturer at the time, Shirley Williams . She was initially involved in London at the local level for the Liberal Democrats. She was also nominated by these as a candidate for the Hammersmith constituency and for the 2020 London Assembly elections . She was involved in the Remain Opposition against the United Kingdom's exit from the EU .

In the European elections in the United Kingdom in 2019 , in which the Liberal Democrats were the strongest party in the European constituency of London with 27.2%, they won one of three seats for the Liberal Democrats. It belonged to the Renew Europe group.

She was vice-chair of the subcommittee on human rights .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Waterlow's Solicitors 'and Barristers' Directory. 1999, p. 94.
  2. ^ Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory 2000.
  3. ^ Kate Grimwood: Introducing our new Hammersmith Parliamentary Candidate. In: hflibdems.org.uk. March 24, 2019, archived from the original on May 22, 2019 ; accessed on December 14, 2019 (English, there without a name). Name after Josef Joachim Menzel (Ed.): Silesians from the 15th to the 20th century (= Silesian Life Pictures , Volume 7). Insingen, Degener, 2001, ISBN 978-3-7995-6198-3 , p. 329.
  4. ^ Class of 1994: 25th reunion. In: hks.harvard.edu . Archived from the original on May 28, 2019 ; accessed on December 14, 2019 (English).
  5. ^ Bettina Schulz: European elections: Defiance election campaign. In: Zeit Online . May 22, 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Landtag Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Interim report for the drafting of a state constitution (constitutional commission) (Drs. 1/2000, p. 70). April 30, 1992, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b c Irina Von Wiese MEP. In: londonlibdems.org.uk. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
  8. ^ Irina von Wiese: European Election campaign launch. (Video, 2:31 minutes) In: YouTube. April 21, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019 .
  9. ↑ European elections 2019: Lib Dems make London MEP gains. In: BBC.com . May 27, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Irina von Wiese. In: europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiese, Irina von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiese and Kaiserswaldau, Irina Stephanie von (full name); Wiese, Irina Von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British lawyer and politician (Liberal Democrats)
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne