Jelena Hoffmann

Jelena Hoffmann , b. Rubanowa, (born March 22, 1947 in Moscow ) is a German politician and entrepreneur .

Private

Jelena Hoffmann was born Jelena Rubanowa on March 22, 1947 in Moscow. After marrying a German, Jelena Hoffmann moved from the Soviet Union to the GDR in 1975 . Today she lives in Chemnitz and works in Leipzig . She and her husband have three children.

Life

After high school in 1965 graduated from Jelena Hoffmann studies in semiconductor technology at the Moscow Energetic Institute , which she in 1971 as a graduate - engineer for electrical ended. From 1976 she worked in Chemnitz (Karl-Marx-Stadt) as a development engineer in the field of research and development of numerical controls and then as a product manager for electronic toys. From 1988 to 1991 she was a research assistant in machine tool construction . Until she was elected to the German Bundestag in 1994, she was the managing director of a medium-sized company in technical wholesale. In Chemnitz she was deputy chairwoman of the AWO .

politics

Jelena Hoffmann was a member of the SPD from 1991 and was a member of the executive committee of the SPD sub-district of Chemnitz. She ran for the SPD in 1994 in the 1994 federal election and entered the Bundestag via the state list of Saxony . In the Bundestag elections in 1998 and 2002 , she won a mandate as a directly elected member of the Chemnitz constituency . In the 2002 Bundestag election she received 35.0% of the first votes in the Chemnitz constituency .

In the Bundestag she worked in various committees (Committee for Economics and Labor, Committee for Foreign Policy, Tourism Committee, SME representatives of the SPD parliamentary group, etc.) and as a member of the German delegation of the Council of Europe and the Western European Union, primarily with economic areas and foreign policy and with a focus on Russia and Ukraine. She was a member and chair of the German-Ukrainian parliamentary group.

After Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's vote of confidence on July 1, 2005 and the subsequent dissolution of the Bundestag by Federal President Horst Köhler , Jelena Hoffmann and MP Werner Schulz ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) filed a lawsuit against this dissolution on July 29, 2005 at the Federal Constitutional Court . However, on August 25, 2005, her lawsuit was dismissed as unfounded .

She no longer ran for the early federal election in 2005 . In 2008 she left the SPD.

According to politics

Jelena Hoffmann is a specialist in German-Ukrainian business and political relations with an international reputation. She is President of the Association of German Entrepreneurs in Ukraine (BVDUU) and works as a political and economic advisor for European companies that want to maintain or develop business relationships with Ukraine or Germany.

From 2008 to 2014 she was honorary consul of the Ukraine in Germany. The honorary consulate she ran in Leipzig was responsible for the state of Saxony.

From 2010 to 2013 she was the executive chairwoman of the renowned German-Ukrainian forum.

Since September 2013 she has been a member of the board and chairwoman of the board of trustees of the German-Ukrainian forum.

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personal data
SURNAME	Hoffmann, Jelena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rubanowa, Jelena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow