Natascha Kohnen

Natascha Kohnen, 2018

Natascha Kohnen (born October 27, 1967 in Munich ) is a German politician ( SPD ). Since 2008 she has been a member of the Bavarian State Parliament , and since May 20, 2017, State Chairwoman of the BayernSPD . From 2009 to 2017 she was Secretary General of the BayernSPD. From 2015 to 2019 she was a member of the federal executive committee of the SPD , initially as an assessor, from 2017 to 2019 as deputy SPD chairwoman. She was the top candidate of the BayernSPD for the state election in 2018 .

Life

Kohnen grew up in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich . After graduating from high school in 1987, she studied biology at the University of Regensburg until 1992 . The biologist then worked as a lecturer and editor . From 1994 to 1995 she worked as a lecturer in the natural sciences department at Oldenbourg Verlag in Munich. From 1996 to 2002 she was a freelance lecturer in the natural sciences department and from 1997 to 1999 in the French-speaking area. From 2001 Kohnen ran his own editorial office with freelance workers .

She lives in Neubiberg near Munich and has two grown children.

politics

Natascha Kohnen is since 2001 member of the SPD and from 2003 to 2009 chairman of the SPD in Neubiberg and until 2009 deputy subdistrict chairman of the SPD Munich-country. At the 60th Ordinary State Party Congress of the BayernSPD in Weiden on July 11, 2009 she was elected Secretary General of the BayernSPD. From 2013 to 2015 she was chairwoman of the SPD Munich-Land, since December 2015 she has been on the federal executive committee of the SPD. In a member survey in the run-up to the election of the state chairman of the BayernSPD in spring 2017, she was one of six candidates proposed by her predecessor Florian Pronold and received 53.8 percent of the votes. At the party congress on May 20, 2017, she was elected state chairman of the SPD in Bavaria with 88.3 percent of the delegate votes.

Kohnen was a member of the Neubiberg council from May 2002 to September 2010. In the state elections in Bavaria in 2008 she was elected in the constituency of Upper Bavaria and has been a member of the Bavarian state parliament since October 20, 2008. There she is a member of the Committee for Building and Housing . From 2011 to 2013 she was also deputy parliamentary group leader of the SPD in the Bavarian state parliament.

In November 2017 , Kohnen was proposed by the state board of the BayernSPD as the top candidate for the Bavarian state elections in 2018. On March 10, 2018, she was elected as the top candidate at the 69th Extraordinary State Party Congress of the BayernSPD. In the state elections in 2018 , the SPD under the leadership of Kohn achieved the worst result in a state election at that time with 9.7 percent and was only the fifth strongest force in the Maximilianeum after the CSU, Greens, Free Voters and the AfD, ahead of the FDP.

In your own constituency Munich-Land-Süd almost halved Kohnen's personal first vote result in the election year 2018 of her top candidate to 12.2% (compared to 20.5% in 2013).

criticism

Natascha Kohnen was accused of "bad style" and "bad style" in the procedure for the 2017 membership decision on the state chairmanship, and that she would override and punish internal party critics.

After the state elections in 2018, she came under pressure because of the historically poor election result. The former state chairman and top candidate Renate Schmidt criticized Kohnen's lack of presence in the election campaign and suggested that she resign. Munich's former mayor and top SPD candidate for the 2013 state election, Christian Ude , accused Kohnen of a “politically free, content-free election campaign” and also suggested that she step down. Resignation calls also came from the parliamentary group of the BayernSPD, the Bavarian regional group in the German Bundestag and from individual local politicians.

In Kohnen's own constituency in the southern district of Munich, an open letter was formulated that Kohnen should not stand in the way of a renewal at the party leadership in Bavaria.

Web links

Commons : Natascha Kohnen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography. Bavarian State Parliament.
• Natascha Kohnen's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Natascha Kohnen “There has to be a change of direction in the SPD” , May 15, 2016, Die Welt
2. ↑ ^{a b} Natascha Kohnen state chairwoman of the BayernSPD . SPD. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
3. ↑ Lisa Schnell: Natascha Kohnen prevails. Sueddeutsche.de , May 12, 2017, accessed on May 16, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Natascha Kohnen is the SPD's top candidate . Bavarian radio. November 13, 2017. Archived from the original on July 2, 2018. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
5. ^ Result of the state elections 2018. State returning officer, October 19, 2018, accessed on October 19, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Eva Lell: There is rumbling in the BayernSPD. BR24, May 2, 2017, accessed May 2, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Reante Schmidt sharply criticizes Natascha Kohnen. Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 20, 2018, accessed on October 20, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Munich ex-mayor Natascha Kohnen suggests resignation. Tagesspiegel, October 14, 2018, accessed on October 14, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Von Brunn: The Kohnen strategy did not work. Die Welt, October 15, 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Thomas Hossfeld: Strong criticism of the "keep it up" of the SPD leadership. Straubinger Tagblatt, November 27, 2018, accessed on November 27, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Angry letter to Bavaria's SPD leadership. BILD, November 11, 2018, accessed on November 11, 2018 .