Rosemarie Raab

Rosemarie Raab (born November 12, 1946 in Lübeck ), also Rosi Raab , is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1987 to 2000 she was the Hamburg School Senator.

Life and career

Rosemarie Raab is a sociologist and social worker . 1974-1979 she worked as a social worker employed before 1979 research assistant at the SPD - parliamentary group was.

From 1982 she was a member of the Hamburg parliament . At the same time, she was head of the social services department at the Hamburg vocational training center from 1982 to 1985 . On September 2, 1987, she was appointed senator for the School, Youth and Vocational Training Authority. She held this office for several legislative periods up to her resignation with immediate effect on April 5, 2000 and thus decisively determined Hamburg's education policy . Ute Pape took her place until the end of the 2001 legislative period.

Political activity

Her youth policy came under criticism with her concept of “people instead of walls”, which stands for the socio-therapeutic treatment of juvenile offenders. The seriously criminal youngster Dennis, who was known for numerous car thefts, was sent at the age of 14 after a joyride with fatal consequences instead of to a closed home in the Finnish youth village Kuttula . After returning to Germany at his own request in 1995 and breaking into cars again, the then 17-year-old was sent back to Kuttula. Also because the stay cost around 40,000 DM a month, Raab's concept was criticized.

During her term of office, a new Hamburg School Act was passed in 1997 , which strengthened the responsibility and independence of schools. Other school policy projects were the introduction of the reliable half-day elementary school , English lessons from the third grade, the “Learning with New Media” program and the initial learning situation study (LAU) carried out by Hamburg as the first federal state . When it came to child day care, it was her concern to implement her legal right to a place in a kindergarten in Hamburg. In the youth welfare sector , her authority commissioned fundamental scientific studies on violence and experiences of violence among young people in order to tackle fundamental improvements. In the area of vocational training, she aimed in particular at guaranteeing a vocational school for all young people, combined with the modernization of this type of school.

Towards the end of her tenure, Raab came under increasing criticism, both from the opposition and from the teachers' unions. The main point was the austerity policy at the Hamburg schools - operated as part of a general budget consolidation. She denied allegations by one of her successors, Senator Rudolf Lange (FDP), that she had pursued a debt policy.

After politics, Raab got involved in the Hamburg popular initiative “One School for All”, which aims to abolish the structured school system in Hamburg.

literature

Peter Gabrielsson: Mayor, Senators, Councilors of State of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1995, p. 135.

Individual evidence

↑ Annette Langer : Hamburg's most famous crash kid. In: Spiegel Online , April 15, 2002.
↑ Hamburg's school senator resigns after twelve years. Raab: "The time is ripe". In: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 1, 2000; Ludwig Rademacher: Mayor Runde thanks Rosemarie Raab. ( Memento of June 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Press release. In: Hamburg.de , March 31, 2000.
↑ Peter Ulrich Meyer: CDU: The school senator must go! In: Hamburger Abendblatt , December 12, 1998, p. 13; Peter Ulrich Meyer: GEW: It works without Ms. Raab. Union attacks school senator sharply. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , October 30, 1998, p. 20; Peter Ulrich Meyer: Senator Rosemarie Raab defends herself against allegations of saving too much at the expense of schools. Despite sharp criticism: I want to continue. Interview. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , December 15, 1998, p. 11.
^ Debt allegation: Rosi Raab defends herself. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 8, 2002.
↑ Rosemarie Raab: “Not just half of heaven: A school for everyone”. Presentation at the founding of the initiative, October 30, 2007 (PDF) .

personal data
SURNAME	Raab, Rosemarie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Raab, Rosi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD) and Hamburg senator
DATE OF BIRTH	November 12, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck

[1] Annette Langer : Hamburg's most famous crash kid. In: Spiegel Online , April 15, 2002.

[2] Hamburg's school senator resigns after twelve years. Raab: "The time is ripe". In: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 1, 2000; Ludwig Rademacher: Mayor Runde thanks Rosemarie Raab. ( Memento of June 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Press release. In: Hamburg.de , March 31, 2000.

[3] Peter Ulrich Meyer: CDU: The school senator must go! In: Hamburger Abendblatt , December 12, 1998, p. 13; Peter Ulrich Meyer: GEW: It works without Ms. Raab. Union attacks school senator sharply. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , October 30, 1998, p. 20; Peter Ulrich Meyer: Senator Rosemarie Raab defends herself against allegations of saving too much at the expense of schools. Despite sharp criticism: I want to continue. Interview. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , December 15, 1998, p. 11.

[4] Debt allegation: Rosi Raab defends herself. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 8, 2002.

[5] Rosemarie Raab: “Not just half of heaven: A school for everyone”. Presentation at the founding of the initiative, October 30, 2007 (PDF) .