Karin Wiedemann

Karin Wiedemann (born December 1, 1948 in Dargun ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 2005 to 2009 she was State Secretary in the Ministry for Science, Economy and Transport of Schleswig-Holstein .

biography

After graduating from high school in Altona in 1968, Wiedemann studied law at the University of Hamburg . The first state examination in law in 1973 was followed by the legal clerkship and in 1975 the second state examination. In 1975 she was admitted to the bar, in 1976 she was appointed assessor and in 1978 she was appointed judge at the Hamburg Regional Court. In the following years, Wiedemann performed various tasks in the Hamburg judiciary: she was involved in the organization of the Hamburg Justice Days, was temporarily seconded to the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court and later to the Hamburg District Court and was involved in the board of the Hamburg judges' association and in the editing of the Newsletter of the association. In 1993 she was appointed presiding judge at the Hamburg Regional Court and as such was chairman of a chamber for commercial matters with responsibility for disputes in commercial legal protection (trademark law, copyright law, unfair competition, antitrust law) until she retired from the judicial service . Wiedemann is married and lives in Schenefeld (Pinneberg district) .

politics

In 1995 Wiedemann became a member of the CDU and in the same year took over the chairmanship of the Frauen-Union (FU) Schenefeld, which she held until 2001. From 1996 to 1998 and in 2002 she was chairwoman of the CDU Schenefeld and then from 2002 to 2004 a member of the state board of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein. From 1999 to 2002, Wiedemann belonged to the state party court. From 2001 to 2002 she was district chairwoman of the FU and from May 2001 to 2011 state chairwoman of the FU in Schleswig-Holstein.

From 1994 to 1998 Wiedemann was a bourgeois member of the CDU parliamentary group in the council assembly in Schenefeld, from 1998 a councilor and chairwoman of the CDU parliamentary group. From 2002 to 2005 she was a member of the NDR Board of Directors . She has been a member of the Studio Hamburg supervisory board since 2005.

For the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2000 she was named by the CDU and its top candidate Volker Rühe as a candidate for the post of Justice Minister. After the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2005 and the election of Peter Harry Carstensen (CDU) as Prime Minister at the end of April 2005, Wiedemann was appointed State Secretary and Head of Office in the Ministry of Science, Economics and Transport of Schleswig-Holstein. She ended this job on October 13, 2009 after the Prime Minister dismissed her. Wiedemann also announced that he would resign from the FU state chairmanship. However, she did not realize this intention, but even ran for a third term in May 2011. However, she was defeated by the previous deputy Katja Rathje-Hoffmann with 33:36 votes.

Since 2010 Karin Wiedemann has been coordinator of the mentoring program of the Women’s Union of the CDU and a co-opted member of the national executive committee of the Women’s Union. She is active in the field of political training, for example for the Virtual Academy of the Women's Union and with the organization of seminars, in particular to optimize political speech. She also writes historical articles for the bulletin of the Hamburg Judges' Association, in particular on the judiciary under National Socialism. Karin Wiedemann has been Vice President of the Society for the Promotion of Garden Culture since 2015 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt: Juliane Rumpf - the woman for Carstensen's cabinet , October 24, 2009
2. ↑ http://www.gartengesellschaft.de/index.php/gesellschaft/vorstand