Krista Sager

Krista Sager, 2006

Krista Sager, 2009

Krista Sager (* 28. July 1953 in Bremen as Krista Schuller ) is a German politician of the party Alliance 90 / The Greens .

From 1997 to 2001 she was Second Mayor and Senator for Science, Research and Equality of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and from 2002 to 2005, together with Katrin Göring-Eckardt, chairwoman of the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . After that she was deputy leader of the Greens in the Bundestag until 2009.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Bremen, she began teaching German and history at grammar schools in Hamburg in 1972 , which she completed in 1979 with the first state examination. Subsequently, she stayed until 1981 for a research stay in Denmark. After passing the 2nd state examination in 1985, she was a teacher in adult education until 1989.

Krista Sager is married to the former Spiegel editor and former HSV supervisory board chairman Manfred Ertel .

Political activity

After she was politically u. a. until 1976 in the "Socialist Student Group" of the Communist Federation of West Germany (KBW) was active and then in citizens' initiatives against nuclear power, for the environment and for human rights in Turkey, Sager was involved from 1982 on the Green Alternative List (GAL) , the Hamburg State Association of the Greens. In 1983 she became a member of the Greens and the GAL state committee in Hamburg. From 1994 to 1996, together with Jürgen Trittin, she was the spokesperson for the federal board of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. From 1996 to 1997 she was GAL regional chairman in Hamburg. It belonged to the party council of the Green Party.

From 1989 to 1994, 1997 and from 2001 to 2002 she was a member of the Hamburg Parliament . There she was from 1991 to 1993, 1993 to 1994, 1997, and from 2001 to 2002 chairwoman of the Green Citizenship Group . Among other things, she was spokeswoman for the parliamentary group for economics and finance during this time. In 1993 she was the top candidate of the GAL in the state election, in which the Hamburg GAL won 13.5%. In the subsequent failed coalition negotiations with the SPD under the then First Mayor Henning Voscherau, she was negotiator for the Greens. In 1997 Krista Sager was again the top candidate of the GAL, which was able to improve its result to 13.9% - a result that the Greens could not improve until 2020 .

After the formation of the red-green coalition under First Mayor Ortwin Runde ( SPD ), she was appointed Second Mayor and Senator for Science and Research on November 12, 1997. In this function, she introduced target and performance agreements based on multi-year global budgets, developed a higher education law that should guarantee higher education institutions more autonomy, and laid the foundation stone for the Center for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. During this time she was appointed to the Senate of the Max Planck Society. As the Senator of Equality, she enforced the so-called Hamburg marriage for gay and lesbian couples as a forerunner of the later registered civil partnership. After losing the red-green majority in the 2001 general election, she left the state government.

From 2002 to 2013 she was a member of the German Bundestag . Here she was elected in October 2002 together with Katrin Göring-Eckardt as chairman of the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. After the 2005 Bundestag elections , she decided not to run for the office of parliamentary group leader. From 2005 to 2009 she was deputy parliamentary group leader and political coordinator of the knowledge & generations working group of the green parliamentary group. From 2009 to 2013 she was the science policy spokeswoman for her parliamentary group and chairwoman of the Bundestag's education and research committee.

Krista Sager always entered the German Bundestag via the Hamburg state list . For the general election in 2013 it did not happen again.

membership

Among other things, Sager is a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society , the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe and the Board of Trustees of the Ernst Reuter Science Foundation in Berlin. Krista Sager is also a member of the Hamburg football club FC St. Pauli .

literature

• Kürschner's People's Handbook of the German Bundestag, 15th electoral period, 94th edition, 2003, p. 205 (and subsequent editions); 16th legislative term
• Krista Sager , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 27/2013 from July 2, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Irmela Hannover , Cordt Schnibben : I can't get no. A couple of 68ers meet again and do their accounts , Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2007 ISBN 978-3-462-03905-4

Web links

Commons : Krista Sager  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Krista Sager's website
• Krista Sager on parliamentwatch.de
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Curriculum vitae at the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt , edition of September 3, 2012, p. 8.
2. ↑ Krista Sager , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 27/2013 of July 2, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
3. ↑ Green politician Krista Sager gets married in the harbor . Hamburger Abendblatt. Accessed on September 20, 2010.
4. ↑ Don't leave anything unsaid . WELT online, accessed on September 20, 2010.
5. ^ Entry "Sager, Krista" in Munzinger Online / Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv , accessed on July 28, 2016
6. ↑ The main proceedings against Schavan are "serious information" , Deutschlandfunk, January 23, 2013, last accessed on July 28, 2016
7. ↑ faz.net:And time goes with us, Krista Sager