Monika Dethier-Neumann

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Monika Dethier-Neumann (born February 26, 1960 in Eupen ) is a Belgian interior designer , youth leader and politician for the Ecolo party , who works in national politics in the Walloon Region and in local politics in Eupen (in the German-speaking community ).

biography

Monika Neumann grew up in Eupen and worked as a youth leader in the Herver Land (Pays de Herve) , where her husband Dominique Dethier comes from. In nearby Liège , she studied interior design at the St-Luc Institute . In the years from 1980 to 1984 she created the project draft for a joinery business and also managed the construction site. She then worked in youth work in a Catholic youth home in Eupen until 1992. In 1992 she started her own business as an interior designer and founded the Weiherhof studio in Eupen with two architects, including her husband.

In 2000 Monika Dethier-Neumann joined the Ecolo party . From 2001 to 2004 she was a member of the Eupen City Council for Ecolo, and in 2004 she entered the Walloon Parliament as a member of Ecolo for the Verviers area . In 2009 she was re-elected and was temporarily interim president of the Walloon Parliament until she left this office to her party colleague Emily Hoyos on July 16, 2009 . She was the first woman, the first Greens and the first person from the German-speaking community to head the Walloon Parliament. She became chair of the Public Works, Agriculture, Rural and Heritage Committee. She held this office until the end of the 2014 legislative period. From 2003 she was also a member of the Federal Council of Ecolo in Namur . In 2012 she was re-elected to the Eupen City Council.

On October 17, 2013, she was critically injured in a car accident with an 87-year-old wrong-way driver who got away with minor injuries on the motorway near Verlaine on the way to the Walloon Parliament and was admitted to the intensive care unit at Huy Hospital . She was released from the hospital on December 6, 2013. It was only after a long period of rehabilitation that she was able to resume her parliamentary activities as chair of the commission on March 26, 2014, but her mandate ended in May 2014. Even after she was released from the hospital, she had even more serious health problems. She did not run again in the elections on May 25, 2014 for the Walloon Parliament, but supported Ecolo's election campaign. As before, she remained a member of the city council of Eupen. In October 2014 she took over the joint chairmanship of the Ecolo regional association of East Belgium , which includes the local groups of the DG , with the Amel politician Frederic Arens . However, Arens resigned from his post on March 31, 2016 for private reasons.

family

Monika Dethier-Neumann has been married to the Belgian architect Dominique Dethier since 1980, with whom she has three adult sons. She is bilingual in French and German.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dethier-Neumann injured in an accident with a wrong-way driver. Belgian Broadcasting , October 17, 2013.
  2. ↑ Monika Dethier-Neumann continues in intensive care. Ostbelgien direct, October 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ Monika Dethier-Neumann: “View of things changed”. Interview by Volker Krings with Monika Dethier-Neumann. Belgian Broadcasting, 23 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Bruno Beckers: La députée eupenoise Monika Dethier de retour au Parlement après son terrible crash en octobre. ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Sudinfo, March 27, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sudinfo.be
  5. ↑ Ecolo Ostbelgien has a new dual leadership. Belgian Broadcasting, October 16, 2014.
  6. ^ The ECOLO regional group in East Belgium. Ecolo website, accessed November 2, 2017.
  7. ↑ Frederic Arens resigns from his mandate with immediate effect. Ecolo Ostbelgien, March 31, 2016.
  8. ↑ Monika Dethier-Neumann: Monika Dethier-Neumann. Page from Ecolo Verviers, June 27, 2008. «En 1980, j'ai épousé Dominique. Nous sommes parents de trois garçons de 25, 20 et 14 ans. »
  9. ↑ Atelier Weiherhof ( Memento from October 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Dethier-Neumann, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician (Ecolo)
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Eupen