Silke Groht

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Silke Groht (born May 25, 1948 in Lübeck ) is a German politician of the FDP .

education and profession

Silke Groht attended grammar school, where she graduated from high school in 1966. After completing her training at the University of Education, she passed the first state examination for teaching at elementary school (primary and secondary school) in 1969. The second state examination took place in 1971. From 1971 she was a teacher at the secondary school in Gevelsberg, in 1975 she initially retired in accordance with the state law. She later returned to school work and most recently worked for the Arnsberg district government in the department for secondary schools and secondary schools.

politics

Silke Groht had been a member of the FDP since 1971 and also became a member of the German Young Democrats (DJD). From 1972 to 1974 she was district chairwoman in Hagen and deputy state chairwoman of the Young Democrats in North Rhine-Westphalia. She played a decisive role in the creation of the FDP paper “Free Church in the Free State”, which was adopted in September 1974 and was based on the demands of the young democrats for the separation of church and state from the previous year. In 1974 she became a member of the district committee of the FDP, district association Westphalia-West. Groht acted as a member of the state main committee and deputy chairperson of the state women's committee.

From May 28, 1975 to May 28, 1980, Silke Groht was a member of the 8th state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , which she entered via the state list. At the time she was the youngest member of parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the state elections in May 1980 , the FDP failed with 4.98% of the second vote on the five percent hurdle and Silke Groht left the state parliament. In connection with the “Wende” in autumn 1982 , she switched to the Liberal Democrats . At the founding meeting on November 28, 1982 she was elected to the first federal executive committee of the new party.

She has been a member of the Education and Science Union since 1969 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The documentation Separation of Church and State (Info 8'73 of the DJD NRW), first published in November 1973, named Ingrid Matthäus and Silke Gerigk-Groht as responsible for editing and text . For the overall context see Tabea Mariga Esch: “Free Church in the Free State”. The church paper of the FDP in the context of church politics from 1966 to 1974 . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150617-8 .
  2. ↑ Landtag NRW: Landtag internal , 6th year, issue 11 of May 10, 1975, p. 11. Digitalized at www.landtag.nrw.de
  3. ↑ Liberale Drucksachen , No. 4, December 1982, p. 7. Digitized in the archive of www.radikaldemokrats.de
personal data
SURNAME Groht, Silke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerigk-Groht, Silke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck