Martina Michels

Martina Michels 2014

Martina Michels , b. Meyer (born December 1, 1955 in East Berlin ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). Michels was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1991 to 2013 . In 2013 she moved up to the European Parliament , in the European elections in 2014 and 2019 she was directly elected to Parliament.

biography

Martina Michels was born in East Berlin and grew up there. In 1975 she completed her school education with the Abitur, then she studied philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1980 and finished her studies with a diploma.

Then she worked until 1985 in the Presidium of the URANIA - Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge . Then she moved to the Ministry of Health , where she worked in the field of international cooperation. From 1988 to 1990 Michels was Sector Head for Health Agreements with the former socialist Eastern European countries, especially the former USSR.

After the end of the GDR, this ministry became the Federal Ministry for Youth, Women, Family and Health . There she was a consultant in the Berlin branch until 1991.

politics

Michels was a member of the SED from 1976 to 1989 , then the PDS . She is a member of the Left Party. From 1989 to 1990 she was a member of the city council of East Berlin .

Member of the Berlin House of Representatives

Martina Michels in the Committee of the Regions in the European Parliament in April 2013, still as a member of the Berlin House of Representatives.

It was in 1990 first elected to the Berlin House of Representatives and was elected from January 1991 to September 2013 a member of the House of Representatives. In the elections in 1990, 1995 , 1999 , 2001 and 2006 she won the direct mandate in the constituency of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg 4 . In the 2011 elections she lost her mandate against Susanne Kitschun , but moved in via the state list.

As part of her work as a member of the House of Representatives, she was Vice President of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2001 to 2006. She was deputy chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group and, from 2001, chairwoman of the committee for European and federal affairs, media and cooperation between Berlin and Brandenburg.

As a member of the House of Representatives, she was also a member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.

Member of the European Parliament

At the European Congress of the party Die Linke in 2009, the party delegates nominated Michels for tenth place on the list. In the 2009 European elections , Die Linke won 7.5 percent and thus 8 of the 99 German mandates, so that Michels missed direct entry into the European Parliament. In 2013, however, Lothar Bisky left the European Parliament, Martina Michels succeeded him on September 5, 2013 and also joined the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left . In the remaining few months of the 7th legislature of parliament, she was only a member of the Committee on Culture and Education , of which she was elected deputy chairman in October 2013.

Michels ran again for the 2014 European elections . Your party won 7.4 percent and thus 7 of the 96 German mandates, so it was directly elected to parliament. In the 8th legislature (2014–2019) she was a member of the Committee on Regional Development and a deputy member of the Committee on Culture and Education for the parliamentary group .

For the European elections in 2019 her party nominated them for the fifth list position. The party lost votes (5.5 percent) in the election, but Michels defended her mandate again. In the legislature from 2019, she is again a member of the Committee on Regional Development for her parliamentary group and a deputy member of the Committee on Culture and Education.

literature

Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 263.

Web links

Commons : Martina Michels - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website
Entry on Martina Michels in the Members' database of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Martina Michels: About the person. In: martina-michels.de. Retrieved September 20, 2019 (German).
↑ PDS candidate stands today In: Berliner Zeitung of May 23, 1996.
^ Election of the federal list for the 2009 European elections. Die Linke, 2009, accessed on September 20, 2019 .
↑ 7th legislative term | Martina MICHELS | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
↑ 8th legislative term | Martina MICHELS | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
↑ Assembly of Representatives Election of the European list. Die Linke, accessed September 19, 2019 .
↑ 9th legislative term | Martina MICHELS | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Michels, Martina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meyer, Martina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (Die Linke), MdA, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH	1st December 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	East Berlin

[:0-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Martina Michels: About the person. In: martina-michels.de. Retrieved September 20, 2019 (German).

[2] PDS candidate stands today In: Berliner Zeitung of May 23, 1996.

[3] Election of the federal list for the 2009 European elections. Die Linke, 2009, accessed on September 20, 2019 .

[4] 7th legislative term | Martina MICHELS | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .

[5] 8th legislative term | Martina MICHELS | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .

[6] Assembly of Representatives Election of the European list. Die Linke, accessed September 19, 2019 .

[7] 9th legislative term | Martina MICHELS | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .