Kerstin Kießler

Kerstin Kießler (born June 26, 1945 in Horneburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2001 to 2011 she was the representative of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen at the federal government.

biography

education and profession

After graduating from high school, Kießler studied economics , sociology , business administration and social psychology at the University of Hamburg , the Free University of Berlin and the University of Mannheim from 1965 to 1971 . In 1973 she received her doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Mannheim with the thesis Participation and Power in Task-Oriented Groups - a field experiment on the theory of the organizational conditionality of group processes . She then worked as a research assistant at the University of Cologne until 1980 . In 1980 she moved to the Federal Ministry of the Interior as a consultant . In addition, from 1989 to 1991 she was a personal advisor to the Bundestag member Herta Däubler-Gmelin (SPD) and from 1991 to 1998 also women's representative in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. From 1998 to 1999 she headed the press department of the Ministry of the Interior and at the same time was press spokeswoman for Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily (SPD). From 1999 to 2001 she was the press spokeswoman for Federal President Johannes Rau .

Kerstin Kießler is divorced and has two children.

politics

Kerstin Kießler joined the SPD in 1969.

On October 1, 2001, Kerstin Kießler was appointed State Councilor and Plenipotentiary of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen to the Federal Government and for Europe, and she also became a member of the Federal Council . In her function as authorized representative, she was the only Bremen state councilor with the status of a member of the Senate.

Since 2010 she has been Vice-Chair of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.

In June 2011, Kießler left office. Your successor as Agents for Federal in the Senate Böhrnsen III joined Eva Quante-Brandt on.

Web links

CV at the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (no longer online)

Individual evidence

^ Message from the Committee of the Regions ( Memento of July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Kießler, Kerstin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kerstin Kießler-Hauschildt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Horneburg

[1] Message from the Committee of the Regions ( Memento of July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )