Karoline Linnert

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Karoline Linnert (2014)

Karoline "Karo" Linnert (born August 30, 1958 in Bielefeld ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 2007 to 2019 she was Senator for Finance of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , Deputy President of the Senate and, in addition to Carsten Sieling, also Mayor of Bremen.

biography

Education, work and family

After graduating from high school in 1977, Linnert trained as an X-ray assistant until 1979 . From 1981 to 1988 she studied psychology at the University of Bielefeld and the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg , which she graduated with a degree in psychology . She then worked in Bremen as a research assistant for health and social policy in the parliamentary group of the Greens.

She was married to the artist Helmut Oppermann (1953–2015), has two children and lives in the Hastedt district .

politics

Linnert joined the Greens party in Bremen in 1980 . From 1991 until she was elected Senator in 2007, she was a member of the Bremen citizenship . From 2000 to 2007 she was chairwoman of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group and from 2003 to 2007 also chairwoman of the budget and finance committee. In the 2007 election for Bremen's citizenship, Linnert stood as the top candidate for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, in which the party was able to achieve its best result in a federal state with 16.4% of the votes.

After the SPD under Mayor Jens Böhrnsen decided to end the coalition with the CDU in favor of a coalition with the Greens, the SPD and the Greens decided to form a joint coalition. Linnert was elected mayor, Senator for Finance and Senate Commissioner for Data Protection in the Bremen Senate headed by Böhrnsen ( Senate Böhrnsen II ) and confirmed in this office in 2011 ( Senate Böhrnsen III ).

For the city of Bremen's list of places in Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen for the citizenship election on May 10, 2015, she was placed first in the list of candidates on November 29, 2014. In the primary election of the top candidate for the 2019 state election, she lost to Maike Schaefer . Before the primary election, she had announced that she would only run as the top candidate for the citizenship.

Her successor as Deputy President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen was Maike Schaefer (Greens) in August 2019 and Dietmar Strehl (Greens) as Senator for Finance .

Political positions

Linnert is Germany's first Green Finance Minister and was re-elected for a third term in 2015. She is considered a green veteran from the founding days of her party. In the austerity policy, which is popular in view of the high indebtedness of the smallest federal state, she wants to take social issues into account. The attempt by the CDU parliamentary group to overthrow them on the occasion of the Bremer Landesbank crisis by means of a vote of no confidence failed on June 24, 2016.

She described the consequences of the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 as an “exceptional emergency situation”, which is why an exception to the federal debt brake was justified.

Functions

See also

Web links

Commons : Karoline Linnert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.finanzen.bremen.de/sixcms/detail.php?gsid=bremen53.c.4273.de
  2. ↑ Weser Report: Children and Potato Rarities - Contrasting program for Green Farction Chairman Karoline Linnert . November 4, 2001
  3. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt : Karoline Linnert . March 29, 2007
  4. ↑ Mayor Böhrnsen re-elected , accessed on June 30, 2011
  5. ↑ Bremen Greens elect Linnert as the top candidate ( Memento from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Primary election defeat: Linnert does not run for citizenship elections . In: buten un inside . ( butenunbinnen.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).
  7. ↑ DPA-InfolineRS: Elections: Karoline Linnert: Green veteran with pragmatism. In: Focus Online . May 22, 2011, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Klaus Wolschner: Bremen finance senator survives attack: Great trust in Linnert . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on August 30, 2016]).
  9. ^ Martin Greive: Finances: Bremen rebels against the debt brake. In: welt.de . May 4, 2016, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Organs of the Foundation - as of July 01, 2009 ( Memento of December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Linnert, Karoline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linnert, diamonds
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag, former Mayor and Finance Senator of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld