Kerstin Griese

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Kerstin Griese (2014)

Kerstin Griese (born December 6, 1966 in Münster ) is a German politician ( SPD ). She is a member of the German Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs . She is also a member of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

education and profession

Video presentation (2014)

The pastor's daughter Griese grew up and went to school in Gerbrunn in Franconia and in Düsseldorf . After graduating from high school in 1985, she completed a degree in Modern and Eastern European History and Political Science at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , which she completed in 1997 as a Magistra Artium . From 1987 to 1997 she worked first as a freelance and then until 2000 as a research assistant at the memorial for the victims of National Socialism in Düsseldorf.

Political party

Kerstin Griese has been a member of the SPD since 1986 and was initially involved in the Juso University Group in Düsseldorf. In 1989/90 she was AStA chairwoman and from 1990 to 1992 she was president of the student parliament at Heinrich Heine University. From 1989 to 1993 she was a member of the federal coordination committee (federal board) of the Juso university groups , which she also represented on the Juso federal board. From 1994 to 1997 she was deputy chairwoman of the Lower Rhine Jusos. She was considered to be a representative of the undogmatic - reform socialist wing of the Jusos.

From 1995 to 2011 and since 2013 she has been a member of the SPD's federal executive committee . From 1996 to 1999 she was chairwoman of the youth commission of the SPD executive committee, from 2006 to 2011 she was a member of the management of the forum for children and family and the steering group of the future workshop family. Since 2008 she has been the spokesperson for the Christian Working Group in the SPD .

Member of Parliament and State Secretary

On May 11, 2000, Griese moved into the Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia as a replacement for the resigned MP Willfried Penner . In the federal election in 2002 , she was directly elected to the Bundestag with 45.3% of the first votes for the Mettmann II constituency (Heiligenhaus, Ratingen, Velbert and Wülfrath). In 2005 she was re-elected with 43.5% of the first votes. In 2009 she only got 35.6% of the first votes and missed the mandate. On July 23, 2010, she moved up again to the Bundestag after Angelica Schwall-Düren was appointed Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media in the NRW state government. In the federal election in 2013 she received 37.1% and in 2017 30.6% of the first votes. It moved into parliament via the SPD state list.

From 2001 to 2002 Griese was the spokeswoman for the group of young MPs - "Youngsters" - in the SPD parliamentary group . From 2002 to 2009 she was chairman of the committee for family, senior citizens, women and youth and was a member of the SPD parliamentary group executive committee. From 2006 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2018 she was the SPD parliamentary group representative for churches and religious communities . From 2014 to 2018 she was chair of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs. She is a member of the progressive - reformist network Berlin .

On March 14, 2018, Hubertus Heil appointed Kerstin Griese as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs.

Church and Diakonia

From 1979 to 1989 Griese was active in youth work in the Evangelical Church Community in Düsseldorf-Urdenbach and in the Düsseldorf Church District. From 1987 to 1989 she was a youth delegate to the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

From 2001 to 2016 she was a deputy member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. She has been a member of the EKD Synod since 2003, to which she was previously a deputy member for six years. In 2015 she was elected to the church leadership, the 15-member council of the EKD.

From 2009 to 2010 she was a full-time member of the national board of the EKD's Diakonisches Werk, responsible for social policy .

Further honorary positions

Griese was state vice-president of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund NRW (2006–2009 and 2011–2018), is a member of the board of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy (since 2010) and is a member of the Foundation Board of Kindernothilfe (since 2009). She is also a co-founder of the Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem , for whose trilateral work she is still committed to this day.

Positions

Griese argues for conditions that make "children, work, career and success" compatible for women in Germany. “The birth rate is highest in Europe where the female employment rate is high and childcare is well regulated.” That is why the federal government is investing billions in the expansion of childcare and parental allowance .

She criticized the current spouse splitting , the advantages of which she wants to limit. It is absurd that "forty percent of the spouse splitting benefits couples who do not have to support children."

On the issue of child protection, Griese had spoken out in favor of mandatory child preventive examinations . That is "a building block for the protection of children".

In the revision of the Pregnancy Conflict Act on the question of medical indications and late terminations , Griese was in charge of presenting his own draft law, which contradicted the majority opinion of the SPD parliamentary group. Together with Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Greens) and Andrea Nahles (SPD), she pleaded for a binding reflection period and an obligation for the doctor to mediate in counseling and to establish contacts with organizations for the disabled. The von Griese u. a. The draft presented largely corresponded to the law ultimately passed by the Bundestag.

As rapporteur, Griese had played a key role in the inclusion of computer games in the Youth Protection Act and the age classification. “A pure prohibition policy is of no use”, she turned against demands to ban so-called killer games . Griese criticized the fact that the federal government provides 300,000 euros a year for the German computer game award , while the board and parlor games with their game of the year award go away empty-handed. “The alternative to a digital computer game can also be an analog board and card game. Perhaps it would be good to give this part of the culture appropriate recognition. "

Griese had campaigned for the abolition of compulsory military service and thus of community service . She wanted to ensure that the financial resources released are invested in the Voluntary Social Year and that the emergence of a new culture of volunteering among young people is promoted. She had criticized the creation of the Federal Voluntary Service as "impractical". "Anyone who intervenes in the structure of the voluntary service in this way will destroy a lot."

Griese missed “real progress for ecumenism in practice” in the relationship between the Christian churches , because “ Rome refuses to give evangelical Christians an encounter on an equal footing”. She criticized the Pope for “conveying an unfamiliarity to the world that contradicts my Christian understanding of an inviting faith”. "I see a lot of marginalization in the Catholic Church."

Griese spoke out in favor of maintaining and reforming the special church labor law . She appealed to the churches to accept the workers' right to strike and to exclude diaconal companies that “work as' black sheep 'with outsourcing and replacement agency work ”. She called for a generally binding tariff for the social sector, so that “private providers in particular cannot continue to depress wages”.

Together with Michael Brand (CDU / CSU) and other MPs from all parliamentary groups, Griese had drafted a group motion that banned commercial suicide assistance . “ My aim is to prevent the activities of euthanasia associations or individuals who consciously and intentionally make suicide assistance a regular subject of their work,” says Griese. She warned: "Death on prescription, provided with a billing number, could become the norm in the country." The Brand / Griese bill prevailed against three further cross-party motions with a majority of 360 out of 602 votes.

For the majority of Muslim students, there is still no proper Islamic religious instruction in schools, complained Kerstin Griese. “For integration to be successful, there must first be offers.” As long as Islamic classes are not offered nationwide, it is inevitable that many Muslim families will fall back on the offers of the mosque associations .

Kerstin Griese is committed to overcoming the Hartz IV labor market reforms. "Hartz IV is 17 years old and no longer fits into a time when we are recording a record low in unemployment." She wants to "put everything on qualification" and fear people who have had a long working life to quickly fall into the basic security. At the same time, she emphasizes the necessity of the newly introduced social labor market so that “long-term unemployed people finally have a chance to get into work again”.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Kerstin Griese  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ dpa news channel: SPD executive completely assessors selected. In: Süddeutsche.de. November 15, 2013, accessed August 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ In profile: Kerstin Griese. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 20, 1996.
  4. ↑ Kelber moves up next. In: Bonner General-Anzeiger. April 26, 2000.
  5. ^ SPD politician Griese back in the Bundestag. epd , July 23, 2010.
  6. ↑ Familiarize yourself with staying power early on. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. May 12, 2001.
  7. ↑ Griese becomes State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor. In: Rheinische Post. March 12, 2018.
  8. ↑ Everyone is a bit of a priest . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 11, 2015.
  9. ^ The many construction sites of the Diakonie . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 13, 2010.
  10. ^ Diakonie loses another member of the federal board . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 16, 2010.
  11. ↑ Do not be afraid. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 12, 2001.
  12. ↑ "Shock in East Germany in 2015" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 17, 2006.
  13. ↑ Single parent - left alone . In: Die Zeit 24/09
  14. ↑ The horror after infant death in Schwerin . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 23, 2007.
  15. ↑ Bundestag regulates late abortions again . In: Die Welt , May 14, 2009.
  16. ↑ Late abortion . In: Tagesspiegel , May 11, 2009.
  17. ↑ For a positive protection of minors . In: Berlin Republic 4/07
  18. ^ Maleficent with digitalists . In: Berlin Republic 3/09
  19. ↑ More money for voluntary services. In: epd Sozial , July 2, 2010.
  20. ↑ An army of volunteers . In: The Economist , July 15, 2010.
  21. ↑ The long farewell to community service . In: Berlin Republic 4/10
  22. ↑ Working group Christians in the SPD (AKC): Pope visit: Kerstin Griese hopes for progress in ecumenism. (No longer available online.) In: spd.de. September 22, 2011, archived from the original on August 19, 2016 ; accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  23. ↑ one to one: Are we (still) Pope ?, WDR television , September 21, 2011.
  24. ↑ "Church and ver.di, armament!" See PDF (≈ 58 kB), in: epd Sozial , March 16, 2012
  25. ↑ Bundestag advises on the third way. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 27, 2012.
  26. ↑ Four Paths to a Dignified Death . In: tageszeitung (taz) , November 5, 2015.
  27. ↑ Do what you want . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 3, 2015.
  28. ↑ Commercial euthanasia is prohibited. (No longer available online.) In: tagesschau.de. November 6, 2015, archived from the original on November 7, 2015 ; accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Comprehensive Islamic teaching . In: Heilbronner Voice , April 20, 2016.
  30. ↑ Kerstin Griese (SPD) draws a positive balance for the year 2019 . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , January 8, 2020.
  31. ↑ Support and demand remain, but support should be increased . In: Deutschlandfunk Interview , February 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Griese, Kerstin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster