Maria Hay Book

Maria Hay Book

Maria Heubuch (born December 12, 1958 in Ravensburg ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). She was elected to the European Parliament in the 2014 European elections . At the Federal Delegates Conference 2019, she no longer ran for a seat in the European Parliament .

On June 28, 2020, she announced that she was applying for the nomination as a direct candidate of her party in the constituency of Lake Constance for the next federal election .

Life

From 1976 to 1978, Heubuch trained as a house and family carer in Munich. From 1980 she worked as a farmer. In 1987 she graduated as a "Master of Rural Housekeeping".

In 1984 she founded the "Association for the Preservation of Small and Medium-Sized Family Businesses eV" and in 1988 the "Umbrella Association of the German Agricultural Opposition". In 1997 she joined the " Working Group on Farming Agriculture eV". Since 1998 she has headed the association u. a. with Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf and Bernd Voss . In 2005 she became a member of the Federal Association of German Dairy Farmers and one year later she founded the "Alliance of GMO-free Cultivation Region Lake Constance, Allgäu, Upper Swabia". In 2006 she was a representative on the European Milk Board . Further initiatives followed. She has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 2011.

From 2014 to 2019 she was a member of the European Parliament . There she was a member of the Development Committee, the delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament and the delegation in the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. There she was a deputy in the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Fisheries Committee .

Heubuch is married and has two children.

Web links

Commons : Maria Heubuch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry on Maria Heubuch in the Members' database of the European Parliament
• Website of Maria Heubuch