Kerstin Kassner

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Kerstin Kassner (2020)

Karin Kerstin Kassner (born January 7, 1958 in Radebeul ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ) and economist. She was 2001-2011 district administrator of the district of Rügen in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013 .

Life

Kerstin Kassner grew up on the island of Rügen and learned to be a waitress after graduating from high school . In 1981 she became a restaurant manager at the FDGB holiday service in Binz . A distance learning course , which she began at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management during this time , she completed as a graduate economist in the hotel and restaurant sector. She then continued to work in various positions for the FDGB holiday service and last ran a hotel until 1991. After completing the holiday service, she went into business for herself and ran her own pension at Putgarten from 1992 to 2018 .

In 1990 Kerstin Kassner was elected to the last people's chamber in the GDR for the PDS . In the same year she also became a member of the state parliament in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . There she worked in the committees for finance, economics and tourism. From 1998 until she left Parliament in 2001, she was Deputy President of the State Parliament .

On September 16, 2001, Kerstin Kassner was directly elected district administrator for the Rügen district. In the district election on June 22, 2008, she was confirmed in office with 68.3 percent of the votes in the first ballot.

Kassner got into the nationwide headlines in the media during the occurrence of the avian flu H5N1 on Rügen in the spring of 2006. State and federal politicians accused her of not having immediately declared a disaster . However, no specific errors could be proven.

Kerstin Kassner was the chairwoman of the board of directors of the Kreissparkasse Rügen .

In the district election of the new district of Vorpommern-Rügen , which was created in the course of the district reform Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2011 on September 4, 2011, Kassner lost in the runoff election to Ralf Drescher , the candidate of the CDU , with 31,079 to 33,206 votes. Until the federal election in 2013, she was the second deputy of the district administrator in charge of the municipal job center .

In the 2013 federal election , Kerstin Kassner ran for Die Linke in constituency 15 . Although it was clearly defeated by Angela Merkel , it entered the German Bundestag via the state list.

On April 26, 2015, Kerstin Kassner came second behind the previous incumbent Alexander Badrow , who received 65.1% of the votes, in the mayor election in Stralsund with 19.6% of the vote and a turnout of 38.4% .

In the 2017 federal election , she was re-elected via the state list.

She is an honorary member of the board of the regional association of Linke Vorpommern-Rügen and chairwoman of the Prora-Zentrum eV , an association that is dedicated to conveying history, especially in connection with the "Colossus of Rügen" in Prora . Among other things, she is a member of the Rügen Cultural Foundation, the Insula Rugia Association and the Ernst Moritz Arndt Society. Kassner has been the mayor of Bergen on Rügen since June 2019 .

She is married to Andreas Kassner and has two children.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Pergande : The one mistake. In: FAZ.NET . February 20, 2006, accessed December 3, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Why is everyone picking on her? In: superillu.de . March 13, 2006, archived from the original on April 29, 2008 ; Retrieved December 3, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Search for Kreissparkasse Rügen, annual financial statements for the business year from 01/01/2010 to 12/31/2010. In: Electronic Federal Gazette . Retrieved January 5, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Mayor elections . Stralsund.de, accessed on January 1, 2018 .
  5. ^ German Bundestag - Kassner, Kerstin . In: German Bundestag . ( online [accessed July 28, 2017]). German Bundestag - Kassner, Kerstin ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundestag.de
  6. ↑ Thomas Pult: Rügen's ex-district administrator Kerstin Kassner returns a mandate to the district council. In: Ostsee-Zeitung. August 28, 2019, accessed February 14, 2020 .
  7. ^ Ostsee-Zeitung GmbH & Co. KG: Politics - Candidates on Facebook to catch votes. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
  8. ^ German Bundestag - MPs. Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kassner, Kerstin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kassner, Karin Kerstin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdV, District Administrator of the Rügen District, MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Radebeul