Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter (2017)

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter (born October 13, 1962 in Waldshut ) is a German economist , politician ( SPD ) and, with one interruption, has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2005 . Since 2013 she has been Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks and Svenja Schulze . Schwarzelühr-Sutter currently represents the Federal Republic in the supervisory and management bodies of the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU), the Society for Plant and Reactor Safety (GRS) and the Reconstruction Loan Corporation (KfW).

Personal

After graduating from high school in 1982 at the Hochrhein-Gymnasium Waldshut , Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter completed a degree in economics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the University of Zurich , which she completed in 1989 with a degree in business administration . She then worked from 1992 to 1996 as a marketing assistant and from 1997 to 2005 as a member of the Bundestag Karin Rehbock-Zureich . Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter is married and has two sons.

Party activity

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter joined the SPD in 1994 and has been a member of the board of the SPD district association Waldshut since 1995 . Since 2001 she has been chairwoman of the Waldshut district association, since 2007 a member of the SPD state board of Baden-Württemberg and since 2018 in the presidium of the SPD state association Baden-Württemberg. Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter was a member of the municipal council of her place of residence in Lauchringen from 1999 to the end of 2013. Since 2004 she has also been a member of the district council of the Waldshut district .

MPs

In the 2005 Bundestag election , she became a member of the German Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list . She was a member of the Transport Committee (2005–2009) and, since 2006, chairwoman of the “Transport and Climate” sub-working group of the Transport, Building and Urban Development working group of the SPD parliamentary group .

In the 2009 Bundestag election she reached number 16 on the state list and was barely able to move back into the Bundestag , but in October 2010 she won the mandate again as a replacement for the deceased SPD politician Hermann Scheer via the state list . In the 17th legislature, she was a member of the economic committee of the German Bundestag and SME representative of the SPD parliamentary group.

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter speaks at the United Nations in New York City on sustainability (2016)

In the federal elections in 2013 and 2017 , she was able to defend her mandate and entered the German Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list.

Government activities

In the grand coalition of Angela Merkel , Schwarzelühr-Sutter became Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety on December 17, 2013 and represented Minister Barbara Hendricks in this role in political and parliamentary matters, especially in the areas assigned to her Climate protection, reactor safety, nature conservation and environment and health (departments KI, RS, N and IG). After a lengthy government formation and the continuation of the grand coalition, it retained its position from March 14, 2018 under Svenja Schulze in the changed Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. She now represents the areas of climate protection, nature conservation and nuclear safety.

Schwarzelühr-Sutter led the German delegations to the Small Islands Development Conference for Small Island Developing Countries (SIDS 2014), to the Conference of the Parties to the Biodiversity Convention (World Biodiversity Conference , UN-CBD COP-12) and to negotiations on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which in September 2015 in New York in the presence of the Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel , the then Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety Barbara Hendricks and Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter of the United Nations.

Since 2014, Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter has been chairwoman of the board of trustees of the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU), chairwoman of the supervisory board of the Society for Plant and Reactor Safety (GRS) and a member of the SME council of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW).