Swantje Hartmann

Swantje Hartmann (born February 8, 1973 in Bremen ) is a German politician ( SPD , then CDU ) and was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

biography

education and profession

Hartmann grew up with her ten siblings. She studied sociology, work sciences and German at the University of Bremen .

During her professional activity for the telecommunications group o2 Germany , she was elected as the exempt works council chairman for the Northwest region and a member of the general works council and economic committee of the general works council. On May 16, 2007, she resigned as chair of the works council due to her mandate in the state parliament. Since then she has been a full member of the BR and has taken leave of absence from her employment relationship for the duration of her state parliament mandate.

politics

In 1990 Hartmann joined the SPD. She has been a member of Delmenhorst's city ​​council since 1991 . From 1996 to 2000 she was district chairman of the Jusos in the Weser-Ems district . From 1996 to 1998 she was deputy state chairman of the Jusos. Since 2000 she has been a member of the subdistrict executive committee of the SPD Delmenhorst, since 2001 deputy district chairwoman of the SPD Weser-Ems and since 2001 a member of the SPD party council of the SPD party executive committee in Berlin.

Hartmann became honorary mayor of the independent city of Delmenhorst in 2001 at the age of 28 and is one of the youngest in Germany . In 2003, at the age of 30, she became deputy state chairwoman of the SPD Lower Saxony . In 1998 she ran for the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which she was a member from December 23, 2002 to March 3, 2003 as a replacement for the late Uwe Inselmann .

In the Lower Saxony state election in 2003, she ran on the state list of the SPD without her own constituency, but failed to make it into the state parliament due to a poor position on the list. On November 8, 2006, she moved back into the Lower Saxony state parliament as a replacement for the resigned Manfred Nahrstedt . Swantje Hartmann was a member of the Committee for Economy, Labor and Transport until the end of the 15th electoral term. In addition, she worked on the state parliament's committee of inquiry into the award of contracts for the JadeWeserPort deep-water port . In the election for the 16th Lower Saxony state parliament on January 27, 2008, she won the constituency 65 Delmenhorst as a direct candidate with 43.1% of the votes .

In connection with allegations of an affair about the alleged embezzlement of party funds in the SPD district of Weser-Ems by her former partner, she declared on May 7, 2008, under pressure from SPD state chairman Garrelt Duin, that she was withdrawing from her party offices as deputy SPD state chairperson as district chairwoman in the Weser-Ems district. But she rejected any responsibility for the embezzlement of party funds. A commission set up by the SPD district of Weser-Ems investigated these and other allegations, although the alleged embezzlement was never (as announced) explained to the public.

On July 8, 2008 Swantje Hartmann resigned from the post of financial policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament. On June 16, 2009, her seat on the Administrative Committee was revoked with one vote against. For legal reasons, she also lost her post as honorary mayor of the city of Delmenhorst. She then resigned from the SPD on June 18, 2009 and became a member of the CDU on June 25, 2009. Until her change of party, Hartmann was seen as a supporter of integrated comprehensive schools and was vehemently against the education policy of the CDU / FDP state government.

Hartmann resigned her seat on the city council in Delmenhorst at the end of May 2011, switched to the CDU district association of Hanover- City and declared that he did not want to run for the state parliament again in 2013.

Web links

• Homepage of Swantje Hartmann

 Wikinews: Financial affair in the SPD district of Weser-Ems: Swantje Hartmann lets party offices rest  - news

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SPD Delmenhorst shelters mayor . Radio Bremen. June 16, 2009. Accessed on June 18, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Swantje Hartmann resigns from the SPD . Radio Bremen. June 18, 2009. Accessed on June 18, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. Jump from Swantje Hartmann to the CDU perfect . Nordwest-Zeitung publishing company. June 26, 2009. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
4. ^ Kai Purschke: Member of the state parliament changes to Hanover. Hartmann leaves Delmenhorst . In: Weser-Kurier, May 14, 2011. Accessed June 2, 2011.