Sigrid Skarpelis-Sperk
Sigrid Skarpelis-Sperk , b. Sperk, (born April 12, 1945 in Prague ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1990 to 2005 she was chairwoman of the subcommittee on ERP business plans ( European Recovery Program ) of the economic committee of the German Bundestag.
Life and work
After graduating from high school in 1964, Sigrid Skarpelis-Sperk studied economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which she completed in 1970 with a degree in economics. She then worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Public Finance at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1975 she began studying social sciences at the University of Göttingen, but in 1976 she moved to the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich as a research assistant . In 1977 she received her doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. at the University of Göttingen with the thesis "Social rationing of public services" . She then took up a teaching position at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and in 1978 joined the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology as a research assistant .
Sigrid Skarpelis-Sperk is widowed and has a daughter.
Political party
She has been a member of the SPD since 1969. Sigrid Skarpelis-Sperk was for many years deputy chairwoman of the SPD district association Swabia and was a member of the SPD party executive for 12 years. She was also a member of various program commissions of the SPD, beginning with the “Orientierungsrahmen '85” commission and the subsequent party commissions until 2000. She was also a member of the SPD state board of Bavaria and its presidium for many years.
She is counted on the left wing of the SPD and is co-editor of the spw - magazine for socialist politics and economy .
MPs
From 1980 to 2005 Sigrid Skarpelis-Sperk was a member of the German Bundestag . There she was chairwoman of the commission for the use of new information and communication technologies and media from 1983 to 1989 and chairwoman of the subcommittee on ERP business plans of the economic committee from 1990 to 2005 . In addition, from 1994 to 2005 she was deputy spokeswoman for the economics working group of the SPD parliamentary group and from 1999 to 2002 parliamentary group spokeswoman for the Enquête Commission on Globalization of the World Economy . In addition, from 2003 to 2005 she headed the World Economy and Globalization group working group .
In the spring of 2003, together with other party members, she started the first membership application in the history of German social democracy in order to correct the course of Agenda 2010 and finally obtained a special party congress . At that time she called the behavior of the SPD Chancellor " sun king ". In June 2005 she decided not to run for the German Bundestag again. She justified this with the serious, incurable illness of her husband and political differences in connection with Agenda 2010.
Sigrid Skarpelis-Sperk has always entered the Bundestag via the Bavarian state list.
Social Commitment
Sigrid Skarpelis-Sperk is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Attac Germany. She is also President of the Association of German-Greek Societies .
Web links
- Literature by and about Sigrid Skarpelis-Sperk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography at the German Bundestag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agenda 2010: The protagonists - then and now . Mirror online. March 14, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
- ^ Members of the scientific advisory board. In: Attac. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Skarpelis-Sperk, Sigrid |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sperk, Sigrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |