Margit Stumpp

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Margit Stumpp Member of the Bundestag (2019)

Margit Stumpp (born April 13, 1963 in Mengen ) is a German politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 . For her parliamentary group, she is the spokesperson for education policy, media policy and an expert on digital infrastructure. Since 1999 she has been politically active as a local politician in the Heidenheim district and in the Ostalb district . From 2013 to 2018 she was a member of the party council of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Baden-Württemberg .

Life

Stumpp grew up with three younger siblings in the Upper Swabian town of Mengen , where she worked on her parents' farm. She has been married since 1986, has two grown children and lives in Königsbronn . In 1979 Stumpp received her secondary school leaving certificate at the secondary school in Mengen and began training, which she completed in 1980 as a state-certified housekeeper. In 1983 she caught up with the Abitur at the Saulgau Business School and worked as a housekeeper on her parents' farm until 1984. From 1984 she studied precision engineering at the Ulm University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 1988 with a Dipl.-Ing. (FH). Until 1990 she was an application developer for electronics at Mannesmann Tally, then a freelance application developer for a year. In 1991 she switched to school service as a teacher at the HEID TECH vocational school in Heidenheim an der Brenz . In addition to her subjects in information and media technology as well as technical physics , she was responsible for system administration and editing the teacher training server.

Political career

Stumpp has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 2009 . She is a board member of the local political association of the Greens and alternatives in the councils of Baden-Württemberg. In the 2013 federal election campaign , she ran as a direct candidate for the Greens in the Aalen-Heidenheim constituency and in 15th place on the state list of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg, but missed entry into the Bundestag.

At the state party conference of the Baden-Württemberg Greens 2013 in Esslingen , Stumpp was elected to the party council of the state party. In 2017 she was re-elected at the state party conference in Heidenheim. She gave up her membership in the party council in 2018.

Local politics

Stumpp has been a councilor in Königsbronn since 1999, and chairwoman of the faction of the Independent / Alliance 90 / The Greens since 2009. She has also been a district councilor in the Heidenheim district since 2004 and has also been the chairwoman of her parliamentary group there since 2014. She has also been a member of the Regional Association of East Wuerttemberg since 2004, where she is deputy parliamentary group leader.

As a counter-event to the "Königsbronn Talks" organized by the reservists' association, Stumpp initiated the "Königsbronn Peace Talks" in her hometown of Königsbronn, which aim to highlight international developments and solutions that go beyond military interventions.

Member of the Bundestag since 2017

In the 2017 federal election she was elected to 13th place on the state list of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg in the German Bundestag. She was also a direct candidate for the Greens in the constituency 270 Aalen / Heidenheim. She is the first member of the Bundestag of the Greens for this constituency. In addition to her mandate as a member of the Bundestag, Stumpp does not have any paid sideline jobs.

Stumpp maintains a constituency office in Aalen and in Heidenheim, where you can visit citizens and talk to them personally.

Stumpp is an expert on digital infrastructure for the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group. Stumpp calls for a right to mobile communications. Mobile telephony is to be ordered as a "compulsory service", and the federal government could then oblige telecommunications companies in underserved regions to expand networks. In January 2020, the Green parliamentary group introduced a corresponding motion with the title "Mobile communications as a service of general interest " to the Bundestag.

In the debate about more media literacy , Stumpp made the proposal to create a "Federal Agency for Digital and Media Education" based on the Federal Agency for Civic Education .

In the case of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange , Stumpp took a stand against the UK's extradition of Assange to the US because she feared setting a precedent for freedom of the press . In the criminal case against the journalist Meşale Tolu , the member of the Bundestag campaigned for a fair trial and has been traveling to Istanbul for every day of the trial since 2018 to officially observe the process as a representative of the German Bundestag .

Web links

Commons : Margit Stumpp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Bundestag - Margit Stumpp. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  2. Rural areas need to be more confident. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  3. Rural areas need to be more confident. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  4. Stumpp and Müller are in the Green Party Council. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  5. Candidates from East Württemberg successfully re-elected. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  6. ^ Heidenheimer Zeitung GmbH & Co KG: Security: Margit Stumpp promotes Königsbronn peace talks. April 3, 2016, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  7. "The election was a violent thunderstorm". Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  8. ^ German Bundestag - Margit Stumpp. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  9. Contact - Margit Stumpp. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (German).
  10. tagesschau.de: Greens want to establish the right to mobile communications. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  11. ^ Team Margit: Mobile communications as a public service - Margit Stumpp. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (German).
  12. Federal Agency for Digital and Media Education - conversation with Margit Stumpp. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  13. Detlef Borchers: Interim balance and outlook: the proceedings against Assange. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  14. Mesale Tolu - Margit Stumpp. Retrieved on March 26, 2020 (German).