Michaele Sojka

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Michaele Sojka, May 2011

Michaele Sojka , divorced Reimann (born March 12, 1963 in Altenburg ), is a German state and local politician of the party Die Linke . From 2001 to 2012 she was a member of the Thuringian state parliament , where she was the educational policy spokesperson for her party and a member of the budget and finance committee. From 2012 to 2018 she was the district administrator of the Altenburger Land district . For the local elections in May 2019, she was re-elected to the Altenburger Land district assembly and the Altenburg city council.

Life

Education, employment, private matters

Michaele Sojka went to the Polytechnische Oberschule (POS) from 1969 to 1977 , from 1977 to the Extended Oberschule , where she graduated from high school in 1981 . From 1981 to 1985 she studied at the Erfurt University of Education , graduating as a qualified teacher for mathematics and physics. From 1985 to 1990 she was a teacher at a POS in Altenburg. From 1990 to 1991 she worked in the PDS office in Altenburg (most recently as head). After three months of unemployment, he retrained at the creativity institute Prof. Mehlhorn in Leipzig to become a teacher or head of creative schools. She was a co-founder of the association "Narrenschiff" eV, which later became the sponsor of the youth art school in Altenburg. From the end of 1992 Sojka was again a teacher of math and physics at a regular school in Altenburg. In 2001 she moved up as a member of the Thuringian state parliament and was re-elected in 2004 (state list 7th) and 2009 (state list 5th). She was the education policy spokeswoman for the parliamentary group DIE LINKE.Thüringen.

Michaele Sojka is divorced and has two grown children.

Party, political mandates, other public functions

Michaele Sojka had been a member of the SED since 1985 and had no functions until the fall of the Berlin Wall. After the fall of the Wall, she was temporarily a voluntary member of the federal, state and district executive boards of the PDS. From 1997 to 2007 she was district chairman of the PDS / DIE LINKE party in Altenburger Land . From 1994 to 1999 Sojka was a member of the Altenburg city council and the Altenburger Land district council . In the latter, she held the honorary position of councilor and chairman of the school, culture and social committee from 1999 to 2004. From 2004 to 2009 she was chairman of the PDS district parliamentary group (then DIE LINKE.) In summer 2009 she became a member of the school, culture and sports committee of the Altenburger Land district assembly. From 2007 to 2009 she was deputy chairwoman of the state committee of the party DIE LINKE.Thüringen. In November 2009 she was elected to the 20-member state executive by the state party conference in Schleiz.

Michaele Sojka (MdL) stood as the candidate of the LINKE on May 6, 2012 in the runoff election for the district council in Altenburger Land against the incumbent Sieghardt Rydzewski (non-party, formerly SPD). She won this election with 50.2% of the votes cast and a voter turnout of 34.2%.

At the beginning of 2016, Michaele Sojka came under public criticism in connection with the leadership crisis of the Lindenau Museum . As a result of the non-renewal of the contract of the successful museum director Julia M. Nauhaus , which can be traced back to Sojka , four of 16 members of the board of trustees for the Gerhard Altenbourg Prize , which is awarded every two years, declared their resignation from the board of trustees in protest. The winner of the 2016 award, Miriam Cahn from Switzerland , then rejected the award.

In the local elections in Thuringia in 2018 , Sojka lost her office to Uwe Melzer (CDU) in the runoff election on April 29, 2018 .

Sojka was the country manager of Die Linke Thüringen from March 2019 to December 2019 .

Sojka is a member of various regional associations and a member of the GEW teachers' union . She is involved as a member of the Alternative 54 eV association, an association of left-wing representatives from Thuringia who donate part of their diets for social, cultural and ecological purposes.

Web links

Commons : Michaele Sojka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Thuringian regional returning officer
  2. ↑ "Controversy at the Lindenau Museum - Gerhard Altenbourg's homestead in trouble" , Deutschlandradio Kultur, January 13, 2016, accessed on February 9, 2016
  3. ↑ Election of the district administrators and mayors of the independent cities 2018 - final result: District 077 Altenburger Land. State Returning Officer Thuringia, accessed on July 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sojka, Michaele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reimann, Michaele (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg