Michaele Schreyer

Michaele Schreyer (2020)

Michaele Schreyer (born August 9, 1951 in Cologne ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and was Vice President of the European Movement Germany until 2018 . From 1989 to 1990 she was Senator for Urban Development and the Environment in the State of Berlin and from 1999 to 2004 she was the EU Commissioner responsible for the budget .

job

Michaele Schreyer studied economics and sociology at the University of Cologne from 1970 to 1976 . There she received her doctorate in political science in 1983 . Since 1977 she has held various academic positions at the Free University of Berlin , with the parliamentary group of the Greens in the Bundestag and at the Ifo Institute in Munich .

In 1989 Michaele Schreyer began her political career with her appointment as Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection of the State of Berlin, but resigned from this office in 1990 due to the termination of the red-green Senate coalition ( Senate Momper ). From 1991 to 1999 she was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . From 1991 to 1995 she was a member of the Presidium and from 1998 to 1999 chairwoman of the Green Group in the House of Representatives.

EU commissioner

In September 1999, Schreyer was EU - Commissioner and took over the responsibility for the General Budget and the European Anti-Fraud Office ( Prodi Commission ). Schreyer was the first and so far only green member of the EU Commission.

Her appeal was met with protests from the opposition in the federal government ( CDU / CSU and FDP ), since with her and Günter Verheugen ( SPD ) two members of the governing parties became EU commissioners. Previously, it was common for one of the two commissioners to belong to the opposition .

Schreyer left the EU Commission in 2004 when the Barroso I Commission took office . Like all EU states, Germany has only had one EU commissioner since autumn 2004; Günter Verheugen, the German representative of the SPD, remained in the commission.

Current

Michaele Schreyer (2010)

Schreyer was Vice President of the European Movement Germany Network from 2005 to 2018 .

She is also involved in the board of trustees of the European Youth Parliament in Germany. V. and is a member of the board of the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe . She also teaches at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin, in the interdisciplinary master’s degree in European Studies Berlin and at the Hertie School of Governance .

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. 336.

Web links

Commons : Michaele Schreyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Commissioner Michaele Schreyer - Member of the European Commission in the archives of the EU Commission

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Board of Directors | Network EBD. In: www.netzwerk-ebd.de. Retrieved September 25, 2016 . 
2. ^ Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe: Board of Directors