Katrin Langensiepen

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Katrin Langensiepen

Katrin Langensiepen (born October 10, 1979 in Langenhagen ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). She has been a member of the European Parliament as part of the Greens / EFA group since the 2019 European elections .

Life and professional history

Katrin Langensiepen was born in Langenhagen and graduated from the Integrated Comprehensive School in Langenhagen in 2001 in her hometown . In the same year she completed a kibbutz assignment in Israel . After studying in the Netherlands (2003), she went to Marseille as an au pair in 2006 .

Since Katrin Langensiepen has been living with a rare hereditary disease , the TAR syndrome , since she was born , which causes her to lack the spokes on her forearms, she has repeatedly experienced discrimination herself.

In 2009, Katrin Langensiepen completed an apprenticeship as a foreign language assistant and worked in Shanghai for several work stays.

Political career

Langensiepen became a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in 2010. In the following year she was elected to the city council of Hanover and was there social policy spokeswoman for the Greens. She ran in the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2013 as a direct candidate in the Hanover-Linden constituency, but did not win a seat.

Langensiepen is the spokesperson for the State Working Group on Social Affairs in Lower Saxony and the spokesperson for the Federal Working Group on Disability Policy. From 2017 she worked for the Lower Saxony parliamentary group of her party as personal assistant to the MPs Filiz Polat and Belit Onay .

In November 2018, she ran at the party's federal delegate conference for the European election list, and the delegates nominated her for 9th place on the list. Your party won the European elections with 20.5 percent of the vote 21 of the 96 German mandates, so that Langensiepen moved in directly. She joined the Greens / EFA group , for which she is Vice-Chair of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs . She is also a deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs .

As the only female MEP with visible disabilities , she is committed to the rights of people with disabilities and to the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the European Union . She is the chair of the Interparliamentary Group of People with Disabilities of the European Parliament.

In the Committee for Employment and Social Affairs , she works in particular on the issues of housing, basic security and the fight against poverty.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Maestro: Politician about her life with a disability: “I am a luxury disabled person” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 3, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on March 28, 2019]).
  2. ^ Katrin Langensiepen on the website of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Niedersachsen
  3. ↑ Green European List. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Alphabetical list of all elected - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Home | Katrin LANGENSIEPEN | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
  6. ^ Disability Intergroup of the European Parliament | European Disability Forum. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  7. ↑ For a Europe based on solidarity - Katrin Langensiepen -. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Langensiepen, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenhagen