Susanne Kastner
Susanne Kastner , b. Baumgärtel, (born December 11, 1946 in Karlstadt ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2002 to 2009 she was Vice President of the German Bundestag .
Life and work
After secondary school , Susanne Kastner attended a specialist academy where she was trained as an educator. After that she completed in the second-chance education studies at the Religion Pedagogical College in Nuremberg for the teaching profession as a religion teacher at primary and secondary schools. Until 1989 she worked as a religion teacher (among others in Pfaffendorf).
Susanne Kastner is a Protestant , married and the mother of three children.
Political party
She has been a member of the SPD since 1972. Since 1992 she has been a member of the SPD regional executive committee in Bavaria and since 1998 also of the presidium of the Bavarian Social Democrats. She was also a member of the SPD federal executive from 2004 to 2009. She is part of the leadership of the Seeheimer Kreis in the SPD.
MPs
On May 22, 1989, she entered the German Bundestag as a replacement for the resigned MP Anke Martiny-Glotz . From 1989 to 1998 she was the tourism policy spokeswoman and from 1998 to 2002 Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD parliamentary group . She was chairman of the German-Romanian parliamentary group.
From October 17, 2002 to October 22, 2009 she was Vice President of the German Bundestag. She lost the vote in the SPD parliamentary group for a new nomination in 2009 against Wolfgang Thierse with 84 to 44 votes. After 2002 she was chair of the commission of the Bundestag's council of elders for the use of new information and communication technologies and media.
Susanne Kastner has always entered the Bundestag via the Bavarian State List . Your constituency was Bad Kissingen . She did not run again for the 2013 federal election.
Memberships
Kastner is a member of the European Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag .
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (2001)
- Honorary doctorate from the Universitatea Aurel Vlaicu in Arad , Romania
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (2008)
- Bavarian Order of Merit (1999)
- Honorary citizen of the cities of Lipova and Sibiu, Romania
- Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver (2010)
- Bavarian Order of Merit (2011)
- Order of Lazarus (2013)
literature
- Christoph Schwennicke: Bundestag Vice-President Susanne Kastner. In: Michael F. Feldkamp (Ed.): The President of the Bundestag . Office - function - person. 16th legislative term. 17th updated and revised edition. Olzog, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7892-8201-0 , pp. 189-193.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Now eight grandchildren have priority . inFranken.de. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
- ^ SPD proposes Thierse as Bundestag Vice-President . Reuters Germany. October 22, 2009. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
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SURNAME | Kastner, Susanne |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baumgärtel, Susanne (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlstadt |