Mirjam Kruppa

Mirjam Kruppa (born May 21, 1970 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer. Since May 2015 she has been the Thuringian Commissioner for Integration , Migration and Refugees , based in the Thuringian Ministry for Migration, Justice and Consumer Protection . She followed Petra Heß as the Foreigners Commissioner for the Free State of Thuringia .

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Kruppa completed a practical year abroad in the autonomous Palestinian territories and worked on various social projects. This was followed by a law degree in Marburg an der Lahn and Tübingen , which she completed with the first state examination in law. After her legal clerkship from 1995 at the regional court in Erfurt , with study visits to Speyer and Bielefeld , she passed the second state examination in 1997. From 1997 to 1999 Kruppa also studied Arabic at the University of Leipzig .

From 1998 she worked as a lawyer specializing in immigration and asylum law and as a specialist lawyer for administrative law, including providing legal advice to refugees, in hearing procedures at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), in administrative and immigration law proceedings, in the law of freedom of movement, in questions of naturalization, in redistribution / accommodation procedures, in various aspects relating to health care for refugees and in connection with the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act (social law).

Mirjam Kruppa is married, has four children and lives with her family in Erfurt .

Memberships

Since 2005 she has been a member of the Thuringian Hardship Commission (as a representative of the League of Free Welfare in Thuringia e.V.)

Web links

• Official website of Mirjam Kruppa as Commissioner for Integration, Migration and Refugees
• Gerlinde Sommer: Mirjam Kruppa wants to improve the situation of Thuringian migrants in TLZ from June 16, 2015 [1]
• The Commissioner for Integration, Migration and Refugees at the Thuringian Ministry for Migration, Justice and Consumer Protection on erfurt.de