Kersten Steinke

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Kersten Steinke (2014)

Kersten Steinke , née Naumann (born December 7, 1958 in Bad Frankenhausen ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ) and a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

After attending the polytechnic high school in Bad Frankenhausen, Steinke completed vocational training with a high school diploma as an agricultural engineer / mechanizer in Aschersleben from 1975 to 1978 . She then studied until 1981 at the Economics Section of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Then she worked as a feed economist in the LPG (animal production) Bad Frankenhausen until 1983 . In addition, she completed a distance learning course at the agricultural engineering school in Stadtroda , which she completed in 1985 as an agricultural engineer for animal production. From 1983 to 1989 Steinke was secretary of the district board of the Association of Allotment Gardeners, Settlers and Small Animal Breeders (VKSK) in Artern .

Kersten Steinke has two children and has been married since 2008. After the federal election in 2009, she took her husband's name.

politics

Kersten Steine ​​in the German Bundestag, 2019

Steinke was a member of the SED from 1981 to 1989 , from 1989 to 1991 chairwoman of the PDS district association Artern and from 1995 to 1998 deputy state chairwoman of the PDS in Thuringia. She was spokeswoman for the Federal Party Council of the PDS for eight years before moving up to the federal executive committee in 2005. At the merger congress of the party Die Linke, she was elected to the federal executive committee in June 2007.

From 1998 to 2002 she was a member of the German Bundestag . From 2004 to 2005 she was a member of the Thuringian state parliament and was the spokesperson for European policy for the PDS state parliamentary group. In 2005 she was re-elected to the German Bundestag. Here she was chairman of the petitions committee from 2005 to 2017 . For the 2013 federal election she was the top candidate of her party in Thuringia. Kersten Steinke has always entered the German Bundestag via the Thuringian state list. In January 2017 she was elected as a direct candidate for constituency 189 .

Web links

Commons : Kersten Steinke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography at the German Bundestag ( Memento from November 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.nnz-online.de/news/news_lang.php?ArtNr=206064
personal data
SURNAME Steinke, Kersten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Naumann, Kersten (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdB, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Frankenhausen