Michelle Müntefering

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Michelle Müntefering as a guest speaker at the opening of the Wikimedia Summit 2019 in Berlin

Michelle-Jasmin Müntefering (born April 9, 1980 in Herne ; née Schumann ) is a German journalist and politician ( SPD ). She was a member of the party executive committee in North Rhine-Westphalia from 2004 to 2014 and won the direct mandate for the Herne - Bochum II constituency in the 2013 federal election with 48.88% and in the 2017 federal election with 41% . She has been Minister of State (Parliamentary State Secretary) for international cultural policy at the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs since March 14, 2018 . In December 2009 she married the former member of the Bundestag, former SPD chairman and vice chancellor Franz Müntefering .

job

During her school days at the Hiberniaschule in Herne, Michelle Müntefering completed an apprenticeship as a nanny that was possible in the school's concept from 1997 to 1998 . After graduating from high school in 2000, she did an internship in a local editorial office and in a news and press agency . In 2002 she began studying journalism with a focus on economics, which she completed in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She then worked as a freelance media worker for the Association of the Housing Industry (VDW), among others. In 2008 and 2009 she was a research assistant at the German Bundestag . From 2008 to 2010 she did an internship at Vorwärts -verlagsgesellschaft in Berlin. She has been a freelance journalist since 2010.

politics

In 1999, at the suggestion of the Herne Jusos, Müntefering ran for the city council of the city of Herne for the first time on the reserve list, but was unable to enter the local parliament after the SPD had lost. In 2002, at the age of 22, she was elected deputy party chairman of the SPD sub-district of Herne in Herne, and in 2004 she was the youngest member of the state executive committee of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia . In the same year she ran for the first time in the Eickel-Nord constituency for the city council, was elected honorary city councilor and held this position until September 2013.

In 2012, she was nominated by her party as a candidate for the 2013 federal election in the Herne - Bochum II constituency, which has been held by the SPD since 1961. In a battle vote, she prevailed against the Herne city councilor Anke Hildenbrand with 77:55 votes. A third candidate, the vorwärts editor-in-chief Uwe Knüpfer , withdrew his candidacy after a poor result in a preliminary vote in the sub-district of Herne. On September 22, 2013, she was elected as a successor to Gerd Bollmann , with a direct mandate (48.88%) as a member of the German Bundestag .

In the 18th electoral term, Michelle Müntefering was a full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy subcommittee and (at least deputy) member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection and other committees.

In addition, she was chairwoman of the Germany-Turkey parliamentary group in the German Bundestag for the 18th electoral term.

On the night of August 22, 2017, there were arson attacks on Müntefering's private car and an SPD campaign car in front of her house. Two men in black, one with a balaclava, ran away from the crime scene. The police also used a helicopter and a dog handler to find the perpetrators. The investigation was made by the State Security .

In the 2017 federal election, Michelle Müntefering was re-elected to the German Bundestag. With 41.9% she achieved the best first vote result of the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Since March 2018, Müntefering has been Minister of State for International Cultural Policy at the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Merkel IV cabinet .

Memberships

Müntefering was Vice President of the German-Turkish Society until October 2018. V. Berlin and Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the German Orient Foundation , Berlin. She is a member of the IG BCE union , the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and the non-partisan Europa-Union Deutschland , which advocates a federal Europe and the process of European unification.

Web links

Commons : Michelle Müntefering  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City Council / Members . Retrieved September 19, 2012.
  2. ↑ Participation report of the city of Herne. PDF file, 1.4 MB, pp. 178 & 197. Last accessed on October 1, 2012.
  3. ↑ Michelle is now called Müntefering. spiegel.de of December 12, 2009 (accessed on March 13, 2018).
  4. ↑ Michelle Müntefering triumphs against the cheater. Welt.de, accessed on September 27, 2012.
  5. ^ SPD nominates Michelle Müntefering for the Bundestag. Süddeutsche.de, accessed on September 27, 2012.
  6. ↑ Michelle Müntefering nominated. RP-Online.de, accessed on September 27, 2012.
  7. ^ German Bundestag - Foreign Affairs Committee . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed on March 22, 2018]).
  8. ^ German Bundestag - networked worldwide - the parliamentary groups . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed on March 22, 2018]).
  9. ^ Spiegel Online : Cars by Michelle Müntefering set on fire , article from August 22, 2017, accessed on August 22, 2017
  10. ↑ Michelle Müntefering (SPD): She got the best first vote result for the NRW-SPD. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  11. ^ German Bundestag - Michelle Müntefering . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed on March 22, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Information from the German Bundestag
  13. ^ The ECFR Council | European Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved March 23, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Transparency | Michelle Müntefering. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  15. ^ Michelle Müntefering website of the Europa-Union Deutschland. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Müntefering, Michelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müntefering, Michelle-Jasmin (full name); Schumann, Michelle-Jasmin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Herne