Sybille Volkholz

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Sybille Volkholz (born March 17, 1944 in Dramburg , Pomerania ) is a German education expert and former senator. She lives in Berlin.

Services

Volkholz was already politically active during her teacher training course and traineeship , for many years in the GEW Berlin, of which she was deputy state chairman from 1979 to 1989.

After the election victory of the Berlin SPD and Walter Momper in March 1989 and the subsequent formation of the coalition between the SPD and the Alternative List for Democracy and Environmental Protection (AL) was Volkholz for the AL as a Senator for Education, Vocational Training and Sport in the Berlin Senate appointed . The evacuation of Mainzer Strasse in Friedrichshain in November 1990 by the SPD Interior Senator Erich Pätzold was the reason for AL to end its participation in the government. Volkholz resigned with the other two AL Senators Anne Klein and Michaele Schreyer , so that the Momper Senate lost its majority. After the subsequent new elections , Volkholz represented the AL as spokesperson for education policy, and from 1993 the Greens (successor organization of the AL, of which she had been a member since 1990) until 1999 in the Berlin House of Representatives .

From 2000 to 2004 Volkholz headed the education commission of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the project “Partnership School - Company” of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry . Since 2005 she has been organizing the “Citizens Network Education” with the Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists (VBKI), which arranges volunteer reading mentors at primary and secondary schools in difficult situations.

Honors

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 379.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. rbb-online.de/abendschau
  2. press release
  3. Sybille Volkholz honored with the Federal Cross of Merit ( Memento from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )