Ulrike Gottschalck

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Ulrike Gottschalck (born November 8, 1955 in Sandershausen ) is a German politician ( SPD ). She was a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2017 and previously a member of the state parliament in Hesse .

Life and work

After attending school in the Kassel district, graduating from secondary school in 1970 and training as a nanny, Ulrike Gottschalck worked as a group leader in a kindergarten in the Niestetal community from 1972 to 1975. From 1975 to 1984 she went on maternity leave. From 1984 to 1997 she worked as an IT supporter in the field of support and training for craft businesses and medium-sized companies and looked after her parents until 1999.

She is married and has three children.

politics

Gottschalck has been a member of the SPD since 1974 and is on the board of the Losse-Niestetal sub-district in the Kassel-Land sub-district. She has been a member of the district council in the Kassel district since 1993 and was chairwoman of the SPD district parliamentary group from April 2006 to the beginning of 2014. Before that, Gottschalck was community representative in Niestetal from 1989 to 2006 and from 1999 to 2005 parliamentary group officer and parliamentary manager of the SPD district parliamentary group in the Kassel district.

In the Hessian state parliament, to which she was a member from June 3, 2005 to October 31, 2009, she was a. a. Member of the science and art, petitions and budget committees as well as member of the hardship commission and the subcommittee for financial controlling / administrative control. After the state elections in 2008 (executive CDU state government and shaping majority by the SPD / Greens and Left) she was chairman of the budget committee and worked actively for the abolition of tuition fees during this time.

On July 23, 2009 she was nominated as a direct candidate in the constituency of Kassel for the 2009 Bundestag election. On September 27, 2009 she won the direct mandate in this constituency and was a member of the German Bundestag from October 27, 2009 . There she was a member of the Committee for Transport, Building and Urban Development and the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development during the 17th legislative period.

In the federal election on September 22, 2013, she again won the direct mandate in the constituency of Kassel with 40% (official final result) . Ulrike Gottschalck was a member of the budget committee in the 18th electoral term . In addition, she was a deputy member of the committee for family, senior citizens, women and youth and deputy chairwoman of the AG Kommunales of the SPD parliamentary group . Furthermore, from January 2014 Ulrike Gottschalck was chairwoman of the Hessian SPD state group in the Bundestag.

On May 20, 2017 Ulrike Gottschalck told the HNA that she would no longer run for the Bundestag constituency of Kassel in the 2017 Bundestag election. Timon Gremmels , a member of the Hessian state parliament for the constituency of Kassel-Land II , was proposed as her successor .

She explained: "Even if I still enjoy my work at the moment, I have the feeling that it will be enough by the end of 2017."

Web links

Commons : Ulrike Gottschalck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Board of the regional group
  2. ↑ For the 2017 federal election: Kassel SPD relies on Gremmels . In: https://www.hna.de . November 18, 2016 ( hna.de [accessed September 19, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Gottschalck does not want to be in the Bundestag again . In: https://www.hna.de . May 20, 2016 ( hna.de [accessed September 19, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Gottschalck, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandershausen