Saskia Ludwig

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Saskia Ludwig (2011)

Saskia Ludwig , née Funck , (born May 23, 1968 in Potsdam ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and has been a member of the Brandenburg state parliament since 2004 . Ludwig was state chairwoman of the CDU in Brandenburg from June 2010 to September 2012 and led the CDU parliamentary group from January to October 2009 and from April 2010 to September 2012. She has also been a member of the German Bundestag since December 3, 2019 .

Life

After finishing school in 1984, Ludwig completed a three-year vocational training course in the GDR with a high school diploma as a specialist saleswoman at the Potsdam trade organization . From 1987 to 1989 she studied socialist business administration at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management , and from 1990 business administration first at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (preliminary diploma) and then at the Free University of Berlin , where she graduated as a business graduate in 1995 . She is co-owner and commercial director of the family company Funck & Co. GmbH .

Ludwig was a member of the television council of the Second German Television ( ZDF ) from 2000 to 2012, where he worked in the program committee “Program Management” and in the committee for finance, investments and technology. As chairwoman of the club 99 friends of Werderaner FC Viktoria 1920 eV, she supports voluntary work with children and young people in Werder (Havel) .

On June 17th, 2008 she initiated the Campus Tour - The Lives of Others . The film The Lives of Others was shown at schools in the state of Brandenburg and afterwards students discussed recent German history with other contemporary witnesses. The background to the project is a study by the Free University of Berlin, which attested that Brandenburg students had little knowledge of life in a totalitarian state and insufficient knowledge of the political systems of the two German states and the division of Germany.

In 2008 she was awarded a Dr. med. At the University of Potsdam with a thesis on “The outsourcing of tasks to state companies in the state of Brandenburg and other selected states”. rer. pole. PhD .

Ludwig has been married since November 2009, has two children and lives in Potsdam .

Political way

Local politics

Ludwig has been involved in local politics in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district since 1997 as a member of the CDU's district executive. In 1999 she became deputy chairwoman of the CDU district association Potsdam-Mittelmark, which she has led since 2002. From 1998 to 2009 she was a member of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district council. From 1998 she was initially deputy, from 2001 to 2006 chairwoman of the CDU parliamentary group in the district council.

From 2018 to 2019 she was the mayor of the Potsdam district of Golm .

State and parliamentary group chairman of the CDU Brandenburg

From 1999 to 2013 Ludwig was a member of the state board of the CDU Brandenburg. From 1999 to 2004 she was also the chairwoman of the CDU regional economic committee.

Ludwig has been a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament since 2004 . She won a direct mandate in constituency 19 - Landtag constituency Potsdam-Mittelmark III / Potsdam III . In the state elections in Brandenburg in 2019, however, it was defeated and entered the state parliament for the first time via the state list.

From 2004 to February 2009 she was the financial policy spokeswoman for the CDU parliamentary group and a member of the budget and finance committee. From 2004 to March 2007 she was Parliamentary Managing Director of the CDU parliamentary group and a member of the Presidium of the State Parliament. In the fourth electoral term of the Brandenburg State Parliament, she was a member of the Main Committee and the Economic Committee.

State election poster (2009)

From January 27, 2009 to October 20, 2009 Saskia Ludwig was chairwoman of the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament. She resigned in favor of the then CDU state chairman Johanna Wanka , when she was supposed to lead the parliamentary group after leaving the state government. Saskia Ludwig was also elected deputy parliamentary group leader. In 2009 she also became deputy state chairwoman.

After Wanka was appointed to his cabinet by the then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff in 2010 , Saskia Ludwig became parliamentary group and state chairman of the Brandenburg CDU. Their tough opposition to the red-red state government met with criticism, even within their own party.

In the run-up to the 24th federal party convention of the CDU in Leipzig, Ludwig called in November 2011 in the new right Junge Freiheit to strengthen “the conservative pillar of the Union as a brand core”. In a conversation with the Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung, she made this more concrete. She also told this newspaper that she was happy that Opus Dei in Brandenburg would be allowed to establish its planned elite high school for boys, which would be "in the greatest possible contrast to the government's desired socialist unified school". In February 2012, Saskia Ludwig explained in an essay in the Junge Freiheit how the CDU had to take on former FDP voters more intensively and reach conservative electorate. Thereupon the FDP and the Greens terminated the joint opposition work with the CDU in the state parliament. In December 2012 she sent a written greeting on the opening of a Berlin branch of the new right-wing think tank “ Institute for State Policy ”.

In another article in Junge Freiheit on the 75th birthday of the former CDU state chairman Jörg Schönbohm , Ludwig stated, among other things, that during Schönbohm's tenure in Brandenburg some “controlled reporting” took place in which part of the Brandenburg media “issued orders the SPD State Chancellery "had to operate an" opinion manipulation machine ". After criticism from within the party, the board of the CDU parliamentary group in Potsdam expressed suspicion for Saskia Ludwig and asked her to resign. On September 11, 2012, she resigned from the party and parliamentary group chairmanship. His successor as parliamentary group leader was Dieter Dombrowski on September 18, 2012 . His successor as party chairman was Michael Schierack at the election party conference on November 17, 2012 .

Bundestag candidacy, state election 2019 and moving up

After resigning as party and parliamentary group leader, Ludwig wanted to run for the CDU in constituency 61 in Brandenburg in the 2013 federal election. At the CDU assembly meeting in October 2012, she was defeated by the previous member of the Bundestag Katherina Reiche with 184 to 223 votes.

In September 2016, Ludwig was nominated as a direct candidate for the 2017 federal election with 71 percent of the delegate votes in her constituency of Potsdam . In her address, Ludwig criticized the politics of her party and called for a rethink in asylum policy. Party colleague Ryssel, who praised the attitude of the federal government, received 29 percent of the vote. In the federal election on September 24, 2017, Ludwig did not achieve the direct mandate and did not move into the German Bundestag .

In a double interview with the Brandenburg AfD chairman Alexander Gauland , which appeared in the Junge Freiheit on March 16, 2017 , Ludwig accused parts of her own party of taking the position that "the 68 movement ... had prevailed" and that CDU must “chase after these utopias”. The AfD described Ludwig as a “reservoir for conservatives, soldiers of fortune and radicals” that will inevitably split sooner or later. A closer cooperation between the CDU and AfD is not desirable. Ludwig was criticized across factions for the interview with Junge Freiheit . At the beginning of July 2017, Ludwig was one of the initiators in founding the Freedom-Conservative Awakening - the Brandenburg Values ​​Union .

After the state elections in 2019 , she criticized the position of the top candidate Ingo Senftleben on the Left Party , blamed him for the party's defeat and asked him to resign. After Senftleben subsequently announced his retirement as state and parliamentary group chairman, the CDU was able to continue exploratory negotiations and form a coalition.

Since the Bundestag member and new state chairman Michael Stübgen was Interior Minister and Ludwig the next-placed successor on the state list in November 2019 , she reaffirmed her intention to exercise both mandates at the same time by the end of the Bundestag period in 2021, which aroused criticism. In an interview she stated that she did not want to resign from her state parliament mandate because she represented 8,000 voters from her constituency with the best result of her party nationwide and did not want to disappoint their confidence at the beginning of the period, and the Bundestag mandate for the remaining 18 months up to to want to accept for the summer break of 2021, since Potsdam is without representation after Manja Schüle's move to the state government and Ludwig believes that he can double the burden for this period.

With regard to renewable energies , Saskia Ludwig takes the position that “technologies (such as wind and solar) should no longer be promoted unilaterally”. She is critical of a further expansion of wind power plants; instead, it places particular emphasis on the further development of energy storage technologies.

Web links

Commons : Saskia Ludwig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ German Bundestag - Retired members of the 19th electoral term. In: bundestag.de . Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
  3. ^ Anne Mareile Moschinski: Former Stasi prisoners in conversation with students / alarming study . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , June 18, 2008
  4. ↑ Biography on the website of the German Bundestag on bundestag.de, accessed on January 15, 2020.
  5. ↑ Saskia Ludwig, the new local head of Golm, on wir-sind-werder.de, accessed on November 17, 2018.
  6. ↑ Saskia Ludwig no longer head of the district on maz-online.de, accessed on January 15, 2020.
  7. ↑ Marco Zschieck: Saskia Ludwig loses constituency 19 in Potsdam. In: pnn.de. Potsdam Latest News , September 1, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Thorsten Metzner: CDU is now playing women's doubles Funck leads the parliamentary group, Wanka the party . In: Tagesspiegel , January 27, 2009
  9. ↑ Thorsten Metzner: Johanna Wanka wants a new beginning . In: Tagesspiegel , January 18, 2009
  10. ↑ Alexander Fröhlich: CDU front woman announces tough opposition . ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2013 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. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , April 28, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lr-online.de
  11. ↑ Saskia Ludwig becomes the new head of the CDU Brandenburg ( memento of April 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, April 20, 2010
  12. ↑ Lisa Caspari: The Rambo woman of the Brandenburg CDU. Zeit Online, February 29, 2012, accessed March 4, 2012 .
  13. ↑ Thomas Wagner: The ZDF television council and the new right. www. Background.de, February 17, 2012
  14. ↑ Lisa Caspari: The Rambo woman of the Brandenburg CDU. www.zeit.de, February 29, 2012
  15. ↑ Opposition leaves the CDU on the right . In: Der Tagesspiegel Berlin , February 18, 2012.
  16. ^ Criticism of Ludwig: "Your appearance has a system" . In: Märkische Onlinezeitung , December 19, 2012.
  17. ^ CDU greeting for the new right institute . In: Publikative.org , December 18, 2012.
  18. ^ Peter Tiede: CDU leader Ludwig: Media controlled by SPD. In: tagesspiegel.de . August 31, 2012, accessed January 27, 2017 .
  19. ↑ CDU parliamentary group executive withdraws Saskia Ludwig's trust . In: Berliner Morgenpost , September 10, 2012
  20. ^ Thorsten Metzner, Alexander Fröhlich: Saskia Ludwig resigns from party and parliamentary group headquarters. Der Tagesspiegel, September 11, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2012 .
  21. ↑ The parliamentary group committee put a coup against Saskia Ludwig . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 10, 2012
  22. ↑ The trust withdrawn. Saskia Ludwig resigns. In: taz.de. September 11, 2012, accessed September 11, 2012 .
  23. ^ Brandenburg: CDU locks journalists out, Reiche wins. In: pnn.de. October 20, 2012, accessed October 21, 2012 .
  24. ↑ René Garzke: Federal Parliament election 2017: Saskia Ludwig becomes CDU candidate. In: Potsdam's latest news . 13th September 2016.
  25. ^ Märkische Allgemeine, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany: Saskia Ludwig missed entry into the Bundestag. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Benjamin Lassiwe: On stalwart right course , Lausitzer Rundschau , March 17, 2017th
  27. ↑ Igor Göldner: A bit of peace in Brandenburg's CDU In: Märkische Allgemeine , July 14, 2017, p. 10.
  28. ↑ Saskia Ludwig loses constituency 19 in Potsdam on pnn.de , September 1, 2019, accessed December 15, 2019
  29. ↑ Conservative Revolt on taz.de , September 5, 2019, accessed December 15, 2019
  30. ↑ Uprising against Senftleben on pnn.de, September 4, 2019, accessed December 15, 2019
  31. ↑ CDU boss Ingo Senftleben throws on pnn.de, September 7, 2019, December 15, 2019
  32. ↑ Brandenburg's CDU boss announces withdrawal on Spiegel Online , September 6, 2019, accessed December 15, 2019
  33. ↑ a b c Saskia Ludwig is aiming for a double mandate on pnn.de, November 22, 2019, accessed December 15, 2019
  34. ↑ Ludwig ecks with a double mandate in his own ranks on rbb24.de, November 25, 2019, accessed December 15, 2019
  35. ↑ Skepticism towards “Windbürgergeld” , Die Welt, January 2, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Saskia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Funck, Saskia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam