Margarethe Nimsch

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Margarethe Nimsch (born January 19, 1940 in Lippe ) is a Hessian politician ( The Greens ). From 1989 to 1995 she was the department head for women and health in Frankfurt am Main and from 1995 to 1998 Hessian state minister for the environment, energy, youth, family and health.

Life and education

Margarethe Nimsch did an agricultural apprenticeship and was then a secretary and stewardess . She lived from 1963 in Frankfurt am Main , look out for the plane crash of her husband caught up on a high school on the tertiary education and then at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main Jurisprudence studied. She later worked as a lawyer and was the founder of the first Frankfurt law firm in 1977. She is widowed and has a son.

Local political work in Frankfurt

In the local elections in Hesse in 1985 she was elected as an independent representative of the autonomous women's movement on the list of the Greens (she joined the party in 1993) as a city councilor in Frankfurt am Main and was confirmed in this mandate in 1989.

The first red-green coalition in Frankfurt elected Nimsch in June 1989 as head of department for women and health in the Frankfurt magistrate . Dörthe Jung was the office manager in the first year . Nimsch held the office for six years.

At the local level, Nimsch campaigned for the improvement of living and working conditions for women in various areas: through the advancement of women and gender equality in labor market and social policy, in urban planning and design, in local public transport, in childcare and in prevention sexual violence and security issues. The head of department carried out a series of public “women’s city talks” on these topics.

In 1994 Nimsch presented the non-profit Frankfurter Frauenbeschäftigungsgesellschaft mbH (GFFB) to the public. The GFFB was financed from public funds and was initially intended to help long-term unemployed women. The municipal advisory and educational institution, which today operates regionally and supra-regionally, prepares women and men equally for the job market with training and further education programs.

Nimsch made a name for itself with its drug policy . With the establishment of drug consumption rooms in particular , she broke new ground and thus polarized. The so-called Frankfurter Weg in drug policy, which the health department initiated in the 1990s, became a drug policy model for local authorities at home and abroad.

On March 13, 1995, Nimsch's re-election was unsuccessful because of votes against from his own camp. This defeat led to the end of the red-green coalition in the city parliament (the Greens had terminated the coalition on March 15, 1995) and to the election of the mayor, in which Andreas von Schoeler (SPD) lost to Petra Roth (CDU). After Nimsch's electoral defeat, the women's department was incorporated into the Law, Sport and Housing Department, and the department head responsible until 2001 was Sylvia Schenk (SPD).

Hessian Minister of State

In 1995 Nimsch succeeded Iris Blaul . In the Eichel II cabinet she was Minister for Environment, Energy, Youth, Family and Health from October 10, 1995 until her resignation on March 24, 1998 .

Her resignation was triggered by allegations that she had given an acquaintance and party friend orders worth around 500,000 DM for a training project for young people without an advertisement. Opposition and parts of the media spoke of the " cousin economy ". Margarethe Nimsch denied the allegation that there were no tenders, but resigned because there was no support from her own parliamentary group. The investigation by the State Audit Office in 1998 did not reveal any award without the necessary tender, but in some cases the principles of economy and efficiency were disregarded. Successor as minister was Priska Hinz .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mechthild Harting: "The wind blows women in the sails". In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, November 28, 2014, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Corinna Willführ: No change without departure. In: frankfurt.de. City of Frankfurt am Main, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Prostitution as a service industry and economic factor in Frankfurt. Public hearing. Women's Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main, September 27, 1990, accessed on April 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Karin Jergas: Men plan for men. In: zeit.de. ZEIT ONLINE GmbH, December 12, 1989, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Dörthe Jung: How the women's movement moved Frankfurt. In: doerthejung-consult.com. Doerthe Jung, accessed July 1, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Stadtchronik 1994. In: www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de. Institute for Urban History Frankfurt am Main, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
  7. ^ "Work for 100 women" employment company founded . In: Rhein-Main-Zeitung . No. 01.06.1994, February 2001.
  8. ↑ About us. In: gffb.de. GFFB non-profit GmbH, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff: The duel. In: zeit.de. ZEIT ONLINE GmbH, March 31, 1995, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
  10. ↑ The Frankfurt way in drug policy. In: frankfurt.de. City of Frankfurt am Main, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Delegations from all over the world obtained information about the "Frankfurter Weg". In: www.sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH, November 16, 2015, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Reine Seilschaften In: Der Spiegel , March 20, 1995
  13. ↑ Anne Lorenc: When the question of women arises in all offices - “Gender Mainstreaming” is the new magic word in women's politics . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . No. 07.02.2001, Frankfurt region / local section, February 2001.
  14. ↑ Michael Biermann: Hesse's Ministry of the Environment had many heads and shapes . In: Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 27.02.1999, Politics, February 1999.
  15. ↑ Klaus-Peter Klingelschmitt: Green Minister resigns. In: taz online. taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH, February 23, 1998, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Awarded the contract by Blaul and Nimsch . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 180 of August 6, 1998, p. 35, August 1998.
personal data
SURNAME Nimsch, Margarethe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (The Greens)
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH lip