Sabine Kurtz

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Sabine Kurtz (born August 8, 1961 in Bad Hersfeld ) is a German politician ( CDU ). She has been a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg for the constituency of Leonberg-Herrenberg-Weil since 2006 and has been vice-president of the state parliament since April 25, 2018 .

education and profession

After graduating from high school in Bad Hersfeld, Sabine Kurtz studied political science , German and Romance studies in Freiburg . During her studies she worked as a native speaker assistant in Strasbourg for a year . After the exams, an internship in an agency for press and public relations followed from 1987 to 1989. From 1989 to 1990 she worked as an adviser to the state parliament member Franz Longin . From 1991 to 1992 and in the period from 1998 to 2002 she acted as a parliamentary advisor to the CDU parliamentary group in Baden-Württemberg. In between, she worked from 1993 to 1997 as a research assistant to the Bundestag member Hans-Peter Repnik . From 2002 to 2006 she worked as a consultant in the State Ministry .

Political activity

Sabine Kurtz joined the CDU in 1990. From 2003 to 2017 she was chairwoman of the CDU city association Leonberg and has been a member of the board of the CDU parliamentary group since 2011. From 2012 to 2018 she was the state chairwoman of the Evangelical Working Group (EAK) of the CDU Baden-Württemberg and has been the deputy federal chairwoman of the EAK since 2015 .

She was elected in the 2006 and 2011 state elections through the direct mandate for the Leonberg state electoral district. In the election on March 13, 2016, she lost her direct mandate to the Greens, but was given a second mandate by the CDU for the 16th legislative period in the Stuttgart parliament.

From 2006 to 2011 she was the youth policy spokeswoman for the CDU parliamentary group. Since 2006 she has been a full member of the committees for culture, youth and sport as well as for science, research and art. From 2013 until her election as vice-president of the state parliament, Sabine Kurtz was the chair of the "Science, Research and Art" working group of the CDU state parliamentary group, spokeswoman for the CDU state parliamentary group for science, research and the arts and a member of the CDU parliamentary group executive committee. Since March 2017 she has also been chair of the "Zulagen Ludwigsburg" investigative committee. Sabine Kurtz has been Vice President of the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament since April 25, 2018; She was only elected in the second ballot, as MPs from her coalition partner, the Greens, refused to vote because of misleading statements by her about homosexuality. At the same time she became spokeswoman for the group for early childhood education. She has been spokesperson for church politics since 2019.

Other memberships and honorary positions

Sabine Kurtz is a member of the administrative board of the Württembergische Staatstheater Stuttgart, member of the broadcasting council of Südwestrundfunk, member of the advisory board and the board of trustees of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, member of the advisory board of the Theaterhaus Stuttgart, member of the board of trustees of the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg, member of the board of trustees of the state headquarters for political education Baden-Württemberg as well as deputy chairwoman of the sponsoring association of the state academy for youth education in Weil der Stadt . Until 2018 she was a member of the supervisory board of the media and film company Baden-Württemberg

Family and private

Sabine Kurtz is Protestant, has two younger siblings and has been married since 1987; she is the mother of two daughters and one son.

Web links

Sources and Notes

  1. ↑ Information on parliamentwatch.de from November 20, 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abektivenwatch.de
  2. ↑ Information on parliament watch.de from November 21, 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abektivenwatch.de
  3. ↑ http://www.landtag-bw.de/cms/home/der-landtag/abussy/abenkenprofile/cdu/kurtz.html
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 15, 2017 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landtag-bw.de
  5. ↑ CDU politician Sabine Kurtz elected Vice President of the State Parliament on stuttgarter-nachrichten.de, April 25, 2018, accessed February 11, 2019
  6. ↑ Speaker functions. May 7, 2019, accessed May 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kurtz, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Hersfeld