Maike Schaefer

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Maike Schaefer (born June 2, 1971 in Schwalmstadt ) is a German biologist , politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and from June 2015 to August 2019 the parliamentary group leader of her party in the Bremen Citizenship , of which she has been a member since 2007. In the general election in Bremen 2019 , she was the top candidate of the Greens. Since August 2019 she has been Deputy President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen as well as Bremen Senator for Climate Protection, Environment, Mobility, Urban Development and Housing in the Senate Bovenschulte .

biography

Family, education and work

Schaefer graduated from the Staatliches Gymnasium Diez, today's Sophie-Hedwig-Gymnasium in Diez , in 1990 . She then went to London as an au pair for a year .

After her stay in England, she studied biology at the University of Bremen and graduated in 1997. As a research assistant at the Center for Environmental Research and Sustainable Technologies (UFT) at the University of Bremen in the area of ​​risk assessment of environmental chemicals , she received her doctorate in natural sciences in 2004 as part of a soil remediation project . She stayed at UFT in the field of ecotoxicology and examined the environmental effects of pollutants in soils and water on behalf of the institute.

She is married, has one child and lives in Bremen- Vegesack .

politics

Maike Schaefer 2015

Schaefer has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Bremen since January 2002 . From 2003 to 2007 she was a member of the Neustadt Advisory Board .

In September 2003 she was elected as an assessor in the green state board , where she was responsible for the areas of environment and science. Together with Karin Mathes (Member of the Bundestag) she initiated the green regional working group (LAG) Environment.

Schaefer has been a member of the Bremen Parliament since June 2007 and was deputy parliamentary group leader from 2011 to 2015. Since the beginning of June 2015, as the successor to Matthias Güldner , she has led the parliamentary group as parliamentary group leader. Your successor in this office is Björn Fecker . She was the environmental policy spokeswoman for her group until 2019. She was represented in the committee for port matters in the state of Bremen, operational committee "Umweltbetrieb Bremen", temporary committee for the amendment of the state constitution and in the constitution and rules of procedure committee as well as in the state and municipal deputation for the environment, construction, traffic, urban development and energy and the municipal deputation for economy, labor and ports.

In the summer of 2018, Schaefer prevailed against Senator and Mayor Karoline Linnert in a primary election for the top candidate of the Greens in the Mayor elections in Bremen 2019 with 223: 191 votes . After around 2 percent increase in votes for the Greens in the Bremen citizenship election 2019, Schaefer spoke out after explorations for coalition negotiations with the SPD and the left. In the election campaign, she had not committed to any possible alliance.

Publications

  • with Hartmut Koehler, Tobias Freshness, Ingo Dobner, Peter Behrend, Heidi Taubner, Bernd Jastorff, Jürgen Warrelmann & Ulrich Walter: Testing and success control of a phytoremediation process for the remediation of soils contaminated with explosives. Part II: Results of an outdoor experiment. In: UWSF-Z Umweltchem, Ecotox . 13 (5), 2001, pp. 255-316 ( PDF; 534 kB ).
  • Behavioral Endpoints in Earthworm Ecotoxicology. Evaluation of Different Test Systems in Soil Toxicity Assessment. In: Journal of Soils and Sediments. 3 (2), 2003, pp. 79-84 ( PDF; 201 kB ).
  • Earthworms in Contaminated Soils. Ecotoxicological Testing and Biodegradation of Crude Oil. GCA publishing house. Dissertation, GCA-Verlag, Herdecke 2004, ISBN 3-89863-164-8 .

Web links

Commons : Maike Schaefer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Benno Schirrmeister: "Stop for Macho-Macker" - top candidate of the Greens on goals in: taz.die tageszeitung from October 29, 2018
  2. Our congratulations! Maike Schaefer wins primary election Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Bremen September 27, 2018
  3. Red-Red-Green: The Bremen Experiment. June 6, 2019, accessed June 11, 2019 .