Kathrin Vogler

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Kathrin Vogler, Member of the Bundestag (2020)

Kathrin Vogler (born September 29, 1963 in Munich ) is a German politician of the Die Linke party . She has been a member of the German Bundestag since autumn 2009 .

Life

In 1979 Kathrin Vogler joined the German Peace Society - United War Resisters (DFG-VK). In 1983 she passed the Abitur at the grammar school Martinum Emsdetten , joined the SPD and began studying sociology, history and political science at the University of Münster (until 1990) without completing it. During this time she was involved in the state board of the youth organization of the DFG-VK, the youth club Courage, in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1988 to 1990 Vogler was also a consultant for culture and peace at the AStA at the University of Münster.

After dropping out of her studies, she worked from 1990 to 1994 as the state manager of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional association of the DFG-VK and between 1995 and 1999 as the federal manager of the DFG-VK. From 1995 to 2001 she was a member of the DFG-VK national spokespersons. After her parental leave from 1999 to 2002, she was employed as one of three federal managing directors of the antimilitarist Federation for Social Defense (BSV) until 2009 .

Political party

Vogler had been an active member of the SPD since 1983. On November 25, 2001, she resigned from the party; The reason she named was the "unanimous support of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag for the war against Afghanistan and the planned deployment of Bundeswehr units in this war". At the same time, she did not agree with further developments in her party. In 2005 Vogler joined the WASG and acted as the spokeswoman for the Steinfurt district association until this party merged with the PDS in 2007 . In the DIE LINKE party, she worked as a district board member and at state level. From April 2009 to February 2013 she was spokeswoman for the Steinfurt district association. In the 2009 federal election candidate Vogler in 11th place in the general election in 2013 7th in the country list in North Rhine-Westphalia and in the general election in 2017 also on list position. 7

MPs

Kathrin Vogler has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2009. She stood in the federal election in 2009 and in the federal election in 2013 on the state list and as a direct candidate of her party in the constituency of Steinfurt III . In both elections, she entered the German Bundestag as a list candidate for the LINKE in North Rhine-Westphalia. During the 17th electoral term, Vogler was a member of the Health Committee and its deputy chairman as well as a deputy member of the Defense Committee and a member of the Civil Crisis Prevention and Networked Security subcommittee.

In the 18th legislative period of the German Bundestag she was chairwoman of the subcommittee for civil crisis prevention, conflict management and networked action, a full member of the committee for health and, from December 15, 2015, health policy spokeswoman for the parliamentary group DIE LINKE. and also deputy chairwoman of the German-Indian parliamentary group.

In the 19th legislative period of the German Bundestag, Kathrin Vogler is peace policy spokeswoman for the DIE LINKE parliamentary group, a full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, chairwoman of the Civil Crisis Prevention subcommittee and deputy member of the Defense Committee. She also belongs to the following parliamentary groups: she is the deputy chairman of the German-Ukrainian parliamentary group, deputy chairman of the parliamentary group of the Arab-speaking countries of the Near and Middle East and a member of the German-Iranian parliamentary group. She has been a member of the Commission for MEPs' Employee Affairs since December 2019 and a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development since February 2020.

Kathrin Vogler campaigns against German armed forces deployments abroad, against arms exports and ever higher arms spending. It is committed to disarmament, a new policy of détente and civil, non-violent conflict management of international crises and conflicts.

Kathrin Vogler was a co-founder and one of the founding speakers of the Cooperation for Peace. In the Bundestag she co-initiated the cross-party parliamentary group on atomic weapons prohibition, which advocates Germany's accession to the UN atomic weapons prohibition treaty.

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Media coverage

Web links

Commons : Kathrin Vogler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bundeswahlleiter.de: Elected on state lists of the parties
  2. ↑ Markus Wehner : Top German politicians disguise their dropouts . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , May 26, 2013, accessed on April 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ kathrin-vogler.de: That's me
  4. ↑ Resignation from the SPD Kathrin Vogler, Münster ( Memento from September 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Resignation from the SPD - Kathrin Vogler, Münster: The SPD says goodbye to the peace movement - I say goodbye to the SPD
  5. ↑ Spokespersons. DIE LINKE parliamentary group. in the Bundestag, accessed on April 30, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Kathrin Vogler, Die Linke . German Bundestag. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Vogler, Kathrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German peace activist and politician (Die Linke), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich