Petra Köpping

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Petra Köpping (Brandis, January 16, 2020)
Petra Köpping (2016)

Viola Petra Köpping (born June 12, 1958 in Nordhausen ) is a German politician ( SPD ). She was a member of the Saxon State Parliament from 2009 to 2019 and has been the Saxon State Minister for Social Affairs and Social Cohesion in the Kretschmer II cabinet since 2019 . Before that, she was Saxon State Minister for Equality and Integration from 2014 to 2019.

Life

After Köpping had passed her Abitur at the Extended High School Ernst Schneller in Grimma in 1977 , she became Deputy Mayor of the Großsteinberg community . From 1979 to 1987 she worked for the Council of the Grimma District and began a distance learning course in political science and law at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in 1980 , which she completed in 1985 with a degree in constitutional law. From 1987 to 1988 she worked for the City Council of Leipzig and from 1989 to 1990 she was mayor of the Großpösna community . After the fall of the Wall , she worked from 1990 to 1994 as a sales representative for the German Salaried Health Insurance Fund and then held the mayor's office in Großpösna for a second time, which she held until she was elected district administrator for the district of Leipziger Land in 2001. From 2008 to 2009 she worked as a consultant for the Sächsische Aufbaubank .

Köpping lives in Grimma-Höfgen . She is married and has three children from a previous marriage.

politics

Petra Köpping at the presentation of her "Policies for the East" (2018)

Köpping was a member of the SED from 1986 to June 1989 , from which she left four months before the fall of the Wall. In August 2002 she became a member of the SPD . From 2006 to 2016 she was deputy chairwoman of the SPD Saxony .

In 1994 she was elected mayor of Großpösna a second time. She held this office until 2001, when she was elected district administrator for the district of Leipziger Land . In the election of the district administrator of the district of Leipzig, which was formed as part of the Saxon district reform in 2008 as a merger of the previous district of Leipziger Land and the Muldental district, she was defeated in the runoff election on June 22, 2008, to her CDU competitor and previous colleague Gerhard Gey .

In the state elections in 2009 , she moved into the Saxon state parliament with fourth place on the state list and was a member of the committee for economy, labor and transport as well as the interior committee.

On November 13, 2014, Köpping was appointed by Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich as the first Saxon State Minister for Equality and Integration in the Saxon state government. She headed the Equal Opportunities and Integration division in the State Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection with the areas of equality, integration of immigrants and the promotion of democracy.

In August 2019, she announced her candidacy as SPD chairman in a duo with her party colleague Boris Pistorius . In the first ballot, the duo received 14.61% of the vote, which meant they were eliminated from the race for party leadership.

In the 2019 state elections , she moved back to the Saxon state parliament via second place on the state list. After her appointment as Minister of Social Affairs, she announced that she was renouncing her mandate. For she moved Simone long after.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Petra Köpping  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Petra Köpping bundesrat.de
  2. About me petra-koepping.de
  3. Press release of the Saxon State Chancellery of November 13, 2014: Tillich's new government is in place , accessed on October 18, 2016.
  4. ^ Next duo: Pistorius and Köpping are running for SPD chairmanship . In: Spiegel Online . August 16, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed on August 16, 2019]).