Kirsten Eickhoff-Weber
Kirsten Eickhoff-Weber (* September 18, 1960 in Dinslaken as Kirsten Eickhoff ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and elected member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament and its vice-president.
Life, job and volunteering
After graduating from high school in Voerde in 1979, she studied land maintenance at Leibniz University in Hanover and graduated in 1987 with a degree in engineering . She then worked for a year as an employee of a freelance garden and landscape architect before joining the administration of the independent city of Neumünster in 1988 . From 1988 to 1992 she was head of the Lower Nature Conservation Authority and was the deputy head of the Office for Nature and Environment. After her parental leave, she worked in urban planning from 1998 to 2002 and in urban development and tourism for the city administration from 2002 to 2009. In 2009 she took over the management of the green spaces department , which she held until she moved into the state parliament in 2012.
Eickhoff-Weber has been a member of the SPD since 1983 and has been a member of the Neumünster-West local committee since 1988. Since 2013 she has also been chairwoman of the SPD district association Neumünster and an assessor in the SPD state executive. She is a co-founder of the SPD's agricultural network.
From 2005 to 2010 she was a member of the board of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) Neumünster and from 2007 to 2011 a member of the board of the AWO Schleswig-Holstein and a member of the federal committee of this organization.
Eickhoff-Weber is a member of the board of the Academy for Rural Areas SH.
She is Protestant and has two sons.
Political electoral offices
She ran for the first time in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2012 and won the direct mandate in the Neumünster state electoral district with 39.6% . She is a member of the environmental and agricultural committee of the state parliament and spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group for agricultural policy and rural areas, state planning and demographic change, as well as for broadband expansion and securing skilled workers. She is also a member of the state planning council. Since November 4, 2014 she has been the deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group.
In the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2017 , Eickhoff-Weber ran again for her home constituency and was only barely defeated by Wolf-Rüdiger Fehrs (CDU), who won the direct mandate for the Neumünster state constituency, with 34.9% . Eickhoff-Weber then moved into the 18th state parliament via the party's state list (state list in 14th place).
Eickhoff-Weber has been the first vice-president of the state parliament since June 6, 2017. Eickhoff-Weber is also a member of the Environment and Agriculture Committee.
Web links
- Kirsten Eichoff-Weber at the SPD Neumünster
- Curriculum vitae on the website of the SPD parliamentary group
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eickhoff-Weber, Kirsten |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eickhoff, Kirsten (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dinslaken |