Karin Bertholdes-Sandrock

Karin Bertholdes-Sandrock, 2013

Karin Bertholdes-Sandrock (born March 6, 1952 in Dortmund ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Dortmund in 1971 , Karin Bertholdes-Sandrock studied German language and literature and politics in Göttingen and passed the first state examination for higher education in 1977 . She studied and taught at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1977/78 . After the Second State Exam she taught until the election to the Diet in March 2003 as a secondary school teacher at the high school in Lüchow (Wendland) .

Karin Bertholdes-Sandrock is a Protestant, married and has two grown daughters.

politics

Karin Bertholdes-Sandrock has been a member of the CDU parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament since 2003. From 2003 to 2008 she was a directly elected member of the Lüchow constituency and has been a directly elected member of the Elbe constituency since January 27, 2008 . In the 15th electoral term (2003–2008) Bertholdes-Sandrock was a member of the Cultural Committee, a deputy member of the Committee for Rural Areas, Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection and a deputy member of the Enquête Commission “ Demographic Change - Challenge to a Sustainable Lower Saxony”. In the 16th electoral term (2008-2013) Bertholdes-Sandrock was a member of the Cultural Committee, a deputy member of the Committee for Environment, Energy and Climate Protection. She was a member of the 21st Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the investigation of events in the Asse II mine. In the 17th electoral term (since 2013) Bertholdes-Sandrock is the vice-chairwoman of the cultural committee, member of the electoral review committee, deputy member of the council of elders, deputy member of the committee for rural areas, nutrition, agriculture and consumer protection as well as the committee for science and culture. She has announced that she will not run again in the 2018 state elections.

Karin Bertholdes-Sandrock is a member of the district council of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district and the council of the city of Lüchow (Wendland) .

Bertholdes-Sandrock has been a member of the CDU since 1990. Within the party she was district chairman of the women's union from 1994 to 2000 and chairwoman of the CDU district association Lüchow-Dannenberg from 2002 to 2012.

In addition to political party work, she is a member of the VdK , the Sozialverband Deutschland eV , the volunteer fire brigade and the traffic watch . From 1986 to 2003 she was a member of the Philologists' Association and from 1988 to 2000 its local chairwoman.

In September 2014, Bertholdes-Sandrock was publicly criticized for her statement that “under no circumstances” should gays and lesbians, for example, “appear in classes alone with the children” in the context of sex education classes. Elected student representatives condemned this statement as "sad and highly discriminatory". In an article in the Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, the MP made it clear that "the statement was taken out of context". "It is important that teachers can adequately accompany the processes that are triggered in the students by external visits," she emphasizes. This is "educational responsibility" and applies not only to gay and lesbian visitors in school classes, but also "to representatives of political parties, the armed forces, allotment gardeners and everyone else". "There was no attack on homosexual teachers on their part," sexual orientation does not play a role in school service ”.

Web links

Commons : Karin Bertholdes-Sandrock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Karin Bertholdes-Sandrock

Individual evidence

1. ↑ People & Positions . In: Rundblick. Political journal for Lower Saxony . tape 2017 , no. 35 , February 22, 2017, p. 8 .
2. ^ Gunars Reichenbachs: Sex education reform stirs emotions. NWZ Online, September 17, 2014, accessed September 19, 2014 . 
3. ^ Students for Sex Education Reform: "We want answers". Spiegel Online, September 18, 2014, accessed September 19, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Shitstorm against Bertholdes-Sandrock. Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, September 19, 2014, accessed on September 19, 2014 .