Renate Augstein

Renate Augstein (2014)

Renate Augstein (born December 4, 1950 in Cologne ) is a German lawyer . As ministerial director from August 2012 until her retirement, she was independent head of the gender equality department at the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth in Berlin. Augstein works as an author on legal, legal and gender equality issues.

Life

Augstein attended after high school at the Cologne Ursulinenschule the justice Raus education at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne , then she studied law at the University of Cologne . Since the late 1970s, Augstein has played a decisive role in the development of the federal government's policy in the area of ​​“violence against women” by supporting important model projects in the area of ​​women's shelters and intervention , research projects on equality , violence against women, prostitution and gender mainstreaming . After passing the second state examination in 1979, she first worked as a socio-political advisor at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Bonn. As a member of the FDP, in 1981 she advocated the deletion of Section 175 from the Criminal Code.

politics

At the end of 1981 she moved to what was then the Federal Ministry for Family, Youth and Health and began working at the Ministry as a consultant in the department of pharmacy law and poisons , before moving to the then women's policy department in 1982 . In 1988 she became head of the women's policy department, and in 1990 head of the protection of women from violence department. In 2000 she went to Berlin as a sub-department head and has been working there since 2012 as head of the gender equality department. The main focus of her work was the fight against violence against women and the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the work of the federal government . Her special tasks were the implementation of the EU directives on equal treatment with the establishment of the federal anti-discrimination agency and the development of the program “Perspective re-entry”.

Augstein drafted bills for the federal government, in particular on abortion , criminal liability for rape in marriage and sexual assault in therapy, the Protection Against Violence Act and the Prostitution Act , the General Equal Treatment Act and the Act on Confidential Birth, as well as the equal participation of women and men Management positions in the private sector and in the public service ( quota for women ).

voluntary work

Augstein was a member of the presidium of the Evangelical Action Group for Family Issues (today: Evangelical Arbeitsgemeinschaft familie, eaf) and was its vice-president for many years. Here she developed political statements and the eaf's family policy program.

She was a member of the supervisory board of the Evangelical Central Institute for Family Counseling. In the German Association of Women Lawyers, she was active in the criminal law commission for many years and often appears as a speaker at events organized by the djb. She is a founding member of the association "Recht Would Helfen", which qualifies psychosocial facilitators.

Publications

Augstein mainly deals with legal and equality policy. She contributed to legal commentaries (commentary on basic security , commentary on the prostitution law ), published a series of advisors in the Rowohlt Verlag , wrote articles for numerous books by other publishers and created documentation on socio-political topics for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. She has also prepared the topic of “violence against women” for a distance learning course at the FernUniversität Hagen . Also for the FernUniversität Hagen she prepared a lecture and a seminar on witch tracking .

• Abortion, Anti-Discrimination Act . In: Johanna Beyer, Franziska Lamott, Birgit Meyer (eds.) Frauenhandlexikon . Munich 1983, ISBN 978-3-406-09048-6 .
• with Hans-Georg Koch: What you should know about abortion . Munich 1984, ISBN 978-3-423-05239-9 .
• Feminine thoughts on masculine sexuality . In: Siegfried Rudolf Dunde (Ed.) If I am not allowed to love, neither are others . Hamburg 1987, ISBN 978-3-499-18227-3
• Proximity through distance - using the example of our home decor . In: Siegfried Rudolf Dunde (Ed.) Gender Envy - Gender Friendship . Frankfurt / Main 1987, ISBN 3-596-23862-5
• Every second MP is female… From the arduous march of women into politics (collective meeting) . In: Ilona Ostner (Ed.) Women, Sociology of Gender Relations . Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3-486-64481-4
• The illegitimate cohabitation, Lesbian cohabitation, At the end of an illegitimate cohabitation . In: Doris Lucke, Sabine Berghahn (ed.) Legal advisor women . Hamburg 1990, ISBN 978-3-499-12553-9
• The Hexenhammer - published 500 years ago, still relevant today . In: Ulrich Battis, Ulrike Schultz (Ed.) Women in Law . Heidelberg 1990, ISBN 978-3-8114-7490-1
• with Hans-Georg Koch: rape / violence in sexual relationships / sexual harassment . In: Siegfried Rudolf Dunde (Ed.) Handbuch Sexualität . Weinheim 1992, ISBN 978-3-89271-258-9
• The campaign of the German Federal Ministry of Women on violence against women . In: Anita Heiliger, Steffi Hoffmann (eds.) Active against male violence . Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-88104-302-1
• Interdisciplinary cooperation in the field of violence against women at federal and state level . In: Friesa Fastie (Ed.) Victim protection in criminal proceedings . Opladen 2002, ISBN 978-3-86649-140-3
• On the draft of the Anti-Discrimination Act . In: Petra Brackert, Gabriele Hoffmeister-Schönfelder (Eds.) Legal manual for women and equality officers . Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-931832-44-5
• Peter Dabrock, Renate Augstein, Cornelia Helfferich, Stefanie Schardien, Uwe Sielert (eds.): Outrageous - beautiful: Sexual ethics: Protestant and realistic . Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-579-08222-6 .

Web links

• Renate Augstein's CV on the FernUniversität Hagen website
• "The Hexenhammer, published 500 years ago - still relevant today" Author: Renate Augstein
• “History of combating and preventing domestic violence and a look into the future” Author: Renate Augstein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kristina Schröder is head of the equality department with a woman , BMFSFJ
2. ↑ Augstein's curriculum vitae at the Fernuniversität Hagen
3. ↑ The FDP wants to delete paragraph 175 from the penal code , Der Spiegel 25/1981
4. ↑ UN Women, speakers, Renate Augstein ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2014 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. 
5. ↑ Short biography on Wienplus20.de ( memento of the original from December 15, 2014 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. , accessed February 20, 2015. 
6. ↑ Renate Augstein: History of combating and preventing domestic violence and a look into the future (pdf), accessed on February 20, 2015.
7. ↑ eaf-bund.de , accessed on February 20, 2015.
8. ↑ Renate Augstein on def-bundesverband.de ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2014 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. (pdf), accessed on February 20, 2015. 
9. ↑ Sponsor of the institute ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ezi-berlin.de, accessed on February 20, 2015. 
10. ↑ Kristina Schröder occupies the head of the equality department with a woman , article from July 18, 2012 on the website of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, accessed on February 20, 2015.
11. ↑ Renate Augstein on the Fernuni Hagen website.