Maria Eichhorn (politician)

Maria Eichhorn born Hetzenegger (born September 11, 1948 in Piesenkofen ) is a German politician ( CSU ).

From 2006 to 2009 she was drug commissioner of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .

Life and work

After primary school , Maria Eichhorn first did an apprenticeship as a rural housekeeper and then from 1967 to 1969 an apprenticeship as a bank clerk . During this time she also attended the vocational school and then completed a degree in business administration at the Regensburg University of Applied Sciences , which she completed in 1973 with a degree in business administration (FH). She then worked for a year as a subject teacher and began studying business education in 1974 at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg , which she completed in 1977 as a business teacher. From 1980 to 1990 she worked as a teacher at the commercial vocational school in Regensburg .

Maria Eichhorn is married and has two children.

Political party

Maria Eichhorn joined the Junge Union in 1967 and the CSU in 1969. From 1992 to 2005 she was a member of the CSU party executive and from 1995 to 2005 she was state chairman of the Christian Social Women's Union . Since 1987 she has been the deputy chairwoman of the CSU district association in Regensburg.

MPs

Maria Eichhorn has been a member of the district council of the Regensburg district since 1972 .

Since 1990 she has been a member of the German Bundestag . From 1994 to 2005 she was chairwoman of the parliamentary group on families, seniors, women and youth and since 2006 drug commissioner of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

Maria Eichhorn was a directly elected member of the Regensburg constituency in 2002 and 2005, and before that she always entered the Bundestag via the Bavarian state list. In the 2005 Bundestag election she received 53.0% of the first votes in the Regensburg constituency .

In 2009 Maria Eichhorn no longer stood for a mandate in the German Bundestag and therefore resigned. Your successor as constituency member is the CSU politician Peter Aumer .

Public offices

From 1990 to 2002, Maria Eichhorn deputy district administrator of the district of Regensburg .

Eichhorn is a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) and the Bavarian state chairman of donum vitae .

The "Kulturverein Regensburger Domspatzen ", of which she was also chairwoman, disbanded in January 2015, as the diocese had forbidden the Domspatzen to accept funds from this association years earlier. The reason for this was that, in the opinion of the diocese Eichhorn, activity for Donum Vitae was not compatible with her chairmanship of the friends' association.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release: ZdK general assembly elects 45 individual personalities. In: www.zdk.de. November 22, 2008. Retrieved February 27, 2009 . 
2. ↑ donum vitae: Maria Eichhorn new chairwoman. (No longer available online.) In: Mittelbayerische.de. October 18, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 27, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ^ Regensburger Domspatzen: Church drives support association into the dissolution on www.sueddeutsche.de

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag