Sandra Scheeres

Sandra Scheeres

Sandra Scheeres with Jan-Hendrik Olbertz 2012

Sandra Scheeres (born February 15, 1970 in Düsseldorf ) is a German politician ( SPD ). She was a member of the House of Representatives from 2006 to 2016 and was Senator for Education, Youth and Science of the State of Berlin from December 1, 2011 to December 2016 . She has been Senator for Education, Youth and Family since December 2016 , as the area of ​​science policy, which was previously anchored in her administration, was integrated into the Berlin Senate Chancellery .

biography

Sandra Scheeres trained as an educator and then studied pedagogy at the University of Düsseldorf , graduating in 1999. After working for four years in a federal model project for socially disadvantaged areas, she has been a research assistant at the working group for child and youth welfare since 2003 . Scheeres has been the patron of the Berlin branch of the Fahrradhelden association , a children's aid project that operates across Germany, since 2014 .

Sandra Scheeres is married and has two children.

politics

Scheeres has been a member of the SPD since 1993. From 1999 to 2000 she was a member of the city council of Düsseldorf. In the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives in September 2006 and September 2011 , she won a direct mandate in the constituency of Pankow 5 . She was a member of the House of Representatives until October 2016 and was the educational policy spokesperson for her group.

On November 30, 2011 Scheeres was appointed Senator for Education, Youth and Science in the Wowereit IV Senate and sworn in on December 1, 2011. Under Wowereit's successor, Michael Müller , she kept this office ( Senate Müller I , since December 11, 2014), also in Senate Müller II , but without the science department, which moved to the Senate Chancellery.

Political positions

In 2018, Sandra Scheeres and Senate colleague Matthias Kollatz -Ahnen initiated an offer for teachers to continue working for up to three years beyond their retirement age with a 20 percent salary increase .

Web links

Commons : Sandra Scheeres  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sandra Scheeres - Former homepage (available until 2017)
• Sandra Scheeres - Senate Department for Education, Youth and Science

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article Sandra Scheeres becomes Senator for Education , in: Der Tagesspiegel of November 28, 2011, accessed on November 28, 2011.
2. ↑ Markus Mechnich: Berlin Senator Sanda Scheeres is the patron of Fahrradhelden Berlin. Der Tagesspiegel, July 1, 2015, accessed on July 14, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Anna Klöpper: Interview with Senator for Education Scheeres: “I'm not on the defensive!” In: Die Tageszeitung: taz . December 20, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 17, 2019]).
4. ↑ Berlin is planning a 20 percent surcharge for teachers of retirement age. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .