Maria Michalk
Maria Ludwiga Michalk b. Ziesch ( Upper Sorbian Marja Michałkowa rodź. Cyžec , born December 6, 1949 in Merka , district of Bautzen ) is a German politician ( CDU ) of Sorbian nationality.
From 1991 to 1994 she was deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. She was a member of the Bundestag from 1990 to 1994 and again from 2002 to 2017.
Life and work
After graduating from the Sorbian high school in Radibor , Maria Michalk completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk from 1966 to 1968 and then attended a technical college for business administration , which she finished in 1972 as an economist. She then worked in the accounting department of the Margarethenhütte electrical porcelain factory in Großdubrau until she began distance learning at the Dresden University of Transport in 1976 , which she gave up in 1979. Instead, she devoted herself to looking after her children, and from 1986 to 1990 she also worked as a clerk in a law firm. In 1995 she started as a project manager at Fortbildungswerk Sachsen gGmbH and was its managing director from 1996 to 2002 .
Maria Michalk is a Catholic Sorbin , married and has three children.
Political party
In 1972 Maria Michalk joined what was then the GDR CDU . She has been a member of the board of the CDU district association in Bautzen since 1990 and was chairwoman of the district association from 1992 to 2010. From 1996 to 2001 she was also the state chairwoman of the Women's Union in Saxony . From 1996 to 2012 she was a member of the CDU federal executive committee .
MPs
Maria Michalk was a member of the GDR's first freely elected People's Chamber from March to October 1990 . She was also one of the 144 MPs elected by the People's Chamber who became members of the German Bundestag on October 3, 1990 . Maria Michalk was a member of the Bundestag until December 1990.
On February 13, 1991, she moved into the first all-German Bundestag in Bonn as a replacement for the resigned MP Hans Geisler , to which she then belonged until the end of the 1994 legislative period. During this time she was also deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .
Since 2002 Maria Michalk was again a member of the German Bundestag.
She moved into the Bundestag in 1991 via the state list of Saxony and from 2002 as a directly elected member of the constituency of Bautzen - Weißwasser . In the 2005 Bundestag election she received 38.5% of the first votes . In 2009 she was re-elected to the German Bundestag with 42.3 percent of the first votes in constituency 157 Bautzen I. In the 2013 election year, with 49.2% of the first votes, she achieved her best result to date in her constituency and thus moved into the German Bundestag as a directly elected member for the fourth time.
During the 18th legislative period of the German Bundestag she was a full member of the Committee on Health and there chairwoman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group; She is also a deputy member of the Committee on Culture and Media and the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs . She was also secretary in the Bundestag. In October 2016, Michalk announced that he would not run for the Bundestag again in autumn 2017.
Social Commitment
One focus of Maria Michalk's commitment is the promotion and preservation of Sorbian culture. From 1991 to 1994 she was chairwoman of the parliamentary advisory board of the Foundation for the Sorbian People and from 1994 to 1999 she was chairwoman of the foundation council itself. From 2000 to 2019 she was chairwoman of the council for Sorbian affairs in the Free State of Saxony.
Since 1999 Maria Michalk has also been the state chairwoman of the donum vitae association in Saxony.
Special
The credit goes to Michalk for the first Bundestag speech in the Sorbian language. She spoke on June 17, 2004 on minority issues, there was even a Sorbian-speaking exchange with another Lusatian MP. On the other hand, Bundestag Vice- President Hermann Otto Solms was unable to intervene against exceeding the speaking time due to a lack of knowledge of Sorbian.
Honors
In 1994 she received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . On June 2, 2007, Erich Iltgen, President of the Landtag, awarded her the Saxon Constitutional Medal “in recognition of her services to the Sorbs living in Saxony” .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated October 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung: Who is going to race in Berlin?
- ↑ http://www.berliner-kurier.de/archiv/nachrichten,8259702,4158574.html
- ↑ http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btp/15/15114.pdf page 1435 f.
- ↑ Press release of June 1, 2007: Erich Iltgen, President of the Landtag, honors five deserving citizens with the Saxon Constitutional Medal ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 24, 2010
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| SURNAME | Michalk, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Michalk, Maria Ludwiga (full name); Michałkowa, Marja (Upper Sorbian); Ziesch, Maria (maiden name); Cyžec, Marja (Upper Sorbian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), MdV, MdB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merka , Upper Lusatia |