Lissy Gröner

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Lieselotte Karola "Lissy" Gröner , née Kießling (born May 31, 1954 in Langenfeld ; † September 9, 2019 in Neustadt an der Aisch ) was a German politician . From 1989 to 2009 she was MEP for the SPD and a member of the Social Democratic Group in the European Parliament .

Life

From 1960 to 1966 she first attended the elementary school in Langenfeld, then the Dietrich Bonhoeffer secondary school in Neustadt an der Aisch . In the fall of 1970 she started her professional life at Telecommunications Office  3 in Nuremberg .

Their first marriage from 1974 to 2001 had a daughter and a son. In September 2005 she married her partner in Brussels . The wedding ceremony was carried out personally by the mayor and was the first same-sex marriage of a member of the European Parliament to attract media interest worldwide. The separation took place in 2015 with subsequent annulment of the civil partnership; The marriage ended in divorce in 2017. In politics, too, she was committed to the equality of lesbians and gays. For her international engagement in this area she was awarded the moral courage prize of the Berlin CSD in 2007 .

On September 9, 2019, she succumbed to longstanding cancer.

Member of the European Parliament

Tasks and responsibilities in the European Parliament

Gröner was a member of the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education , the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and a deputy member of the Committee on Budgets . In addition, she was a member of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly between the States of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean and the European Union (ACP-EU) and Vice-President of the Intergroup Gay and Lesbian Rights. She was also a member of the Tibet and Reproductive Health Intergroup.

Gröner worked as a coordinator for the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party of Europe in the Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities, as well as spokeswoman for women's affairs for the PES parliamentary group and as youth, education, cultural, sport and gender equality spokeswoman for the SPD European parliamentarians . She also held the office of Vice President of the Children's Alliance.

Focus of work

Gröner was rapporteur for the Youth in Action program and rapporteur for the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing and Beijing +5 in New York. Her focus was on the problems of children in the European Community and the poverty of women in Europe .

She was involved in the interim report on the equal opportunities program, the youth action program and the youth white paper. She was also responsible for women in the EU budget 1997/98/99/2005/2008.

The DAPHNE program 2004–2008 (prevention of violence against children, adolescents and women) and the DAPHNE III program “2008–2013” ​​were further focal points of her work.

She wrote a follow-up to the white paper “New impetus for Europe's youth” and was involved in the “Youth for Europe 2008–2013” ​​action program.

In addition, Gröner was co-reporter for the European Gender Institute and reporter for the Audiovisual Media Services Directive at FEMM.

Functions outside the European Parliament

  • Vice President of SIW (Socialist International Women)
  • Federal Executive Board of the ARSP - Working Group of Social Democratic Women

Memberships

Honors

Fonts

  • Europe for women and EU enlargement to the east , with contributions from MEP Lissy Gröner, MEP Christa Prets and MEP Maria Berger, September 2002.
  • Europe is forming , EU funding opportunities in the youth and education sector, March 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Lizzy Gröner: Personal. In: Blog Oneworld4all. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
  2. Lissy & Sabine say: YES. In: emma.de . November 2005, archived from the original on October 27, 2007 ; accessed on September 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The death of Lissy Gröner triggers mourning in Neustadt. In: nordbayern.de . September 10, 2019, accessed September 13, 2019 .
  4. Gröner Vice President of Homo-Intergroup. In: queer.de. April 26, 2007, accessed September 13, 2019 .
  5. ^ MEP Lissy Gröner receives the Federal Cross of Merit. In: bayernspd.de. February 5, 2009, archived from the original on February 10, 2009 ; accessed on September 13, 2019 .