Renate Juergens-Pieper

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Renate Jürgens-Pieper (born April 5, 1951 in Braunschweig ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1998 to 2003 she was Lower Saxony's Minister of Education and Culture and, from 2000, also Deputy Prime Minister. From 2007 to 2012 she was Senator for Education and Science and from 2011 to 2012 she was also Senator for Health of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

biography

After graduating from the Ricarda-Huch-Schule in Braunschweig in 1970 , Jürgens-Pieper completed a teaching degree in biology and chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig , which she completed in 1975 with the first state examination for a higher teaching post. After her legal clerkship , she passed the second state examination in 1977 and then worked as a teacher at the Wilhelm Bracke Comprehensive School in Braunschweig until 1990 . From 2003 to 2007 she was a research assistant at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung .

She is married and has two kids.

politics

Jürgens-Pieper joined the SPD in 1972, but became involved in the Greens from 1985 . Since 1994 she has been a member of the SPD again.

In the local elections in Lower Saxony in 2006, she was nominated by the SPD as a candidate for the office of Lord Mayor of the City of Wolfsburg . In the first ballot on September 10, 2006, she won 26.2% of the votes in the direct election for the office of Lord Mayor . She lost the runoff election on September 24, 2006, with 39.2% of the votes, clearly against incumbent Rolf Schnellecke (CDU), who received 60.8% of the votes.

From 1985 to 1990 she was a member of the municipal council of the Schwülper municipality .

After a Red-Green coalition was formed under Prime Minister Gerhard Schröder after the state elections in Lower Saxony in 1990 , Renate Jürgens-Pieper, still a member of the Greens, was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture in June 1990 . She also retained this office after the Greens left the state government after the 1994 state elections in June 1994 and the SPD was able to form a sole government. Renate Jürgens-Pieper complained about a lack of support in her party, returned to the SPD in October 1994 and remained State Secretary until 1998.

After the state election in 1998, she was finally appointed Minister of Education for Lower Saxony on March 30, 1998. Among other things, she reformed the participation rights of parents (telephone hotline). In this office she also belonged to the state governments led by Gerhard Glogowski (1998 to 1999) and Sigmar Gabriel (from 1999). From December 13, 2000 she was also Deputy Prime Minister . After the SPD lost its majority in the 2003 state elections, it left office on March 4, 2003.

When a red-green coalition under the President of the Senate and Mayor Jens Böhrnsen (SPD) was formed in Bremen after the 2007 general election , Juergens-Pieper became Senator for Education on June 29, 2007, succeeding Willi Lemke (SPD) and Science of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Carl Othmer (SPD), formerly Ministerialdirigent in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education, followed her and became State Councilor in Bremen .

From June 30, 2011 until her resignation in December 2012, Jürgens-Pieper was Senator for Education, Science and Health of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Her successor as Senator for Education and Science was Eva Quante-Brandt (SPD) on December 13, 2012 . Hermann Schulte-Sasse (non-party) became the new health senator.

Controversy

In connection with the death of three premature babies in the Bremen-Mitte Clinic, a parliamentary committee of inquiry was set up in 2011, which was supposed to clarify, among other things, whether Jürgens-Pieper, as Senator for Health and as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of “Gesundheit Nord” (the clinic's sponsor), had a I have political and administrative responsibility. The public taking of evidence began on December 19, 2011. According to information from the Weser Kurier , the allegation was in the room that the inadequate hygiene conditions in the Bremen Clinic - which, according to a survey by the Institute for Applied Quality Promotion and Research in Health Care (AQUA), were worse than in 90 percent of the comparable 337 German hospitals - related to "structural, personnel and organizational deficiencies" for which Jürgens-Pieper is responsible, especially with regard to the under-staffing of public health services in the heavily indebted federal state. Before the committee of inquiry, Jürgens-Pieper admitted that “the doctors and nurses saved too quickly” - but before their term of office.

A conflict over the education budget led to her resignation as a senator in 2012. In his own words, Jürgens-Pieper was not prepared to accept the “structural deficit” in the educational budget of the state of Bremen, which repeatedly performed extremely poorly in educational comparisons. She complained that, in her opinion, she was not granted additional funds for education.

See also

literature

  • Munzinger International Biographical Archive 40/2007 of October 6, 2007 (gi)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bremen's Senator for Education resigned: Juergens-Pieper's statement in full, Weser-Kurier online, November 26, 2012
  2. ↑ Sabine Doll: The Search for Responsibility, Kurier am Sonntag, December 18, 2011, p. 3
  3. ↑ Barbara Supp: The beggars of the nation, Der Spiegel, No. 43/2011, October 24, 2011, pp. 58–62
  4. ↑ Ralf Wiegand: Apocalypse now. In Bremen politics is limited to management of shortages, saving is the order of the day - but this can have fatal consequences, Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 165, July 19, 2012, p. 6.
  5. ↑ Education Senator goes into dispute, Weser Kurier, November 27, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Jürgens-Pieper, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig