Ulrike Sparr

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Ulrike Sparr (2018)

Ulrike Sparr (* 19th April 1957 in Hamburg ) is a German politician of the party Alliance 90 / The Greens Hamburg , editor, author and since 2015 a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Live and act

education and profession

Ulrike Sparr graduated from high school in 1976 and learned the trade of bookseller, in which she worked for several years. She then studied Romance studies at the University of Hamburg and graduated in 1993 with a master's thesis on Marie de Gournay's writings . She then worked as a publishing clerk or editor. She currently works for the Hamburg publisher Edition Wartenau GmbH. As a freelance author, she also publishes books related to Hamburg, including a Winterhude lexicon and collections of biographies of Nazi victims formerly living in Hamburg who are remembered by the Stolpersteine project. She is also involved in the Jarrestadt archive, which she co-founded in 1991 , which collects photos and eyewitness reports on the history of the Winterhude district of the same name.

Political work

From 2001 to 2015 Sparr was a member of the Hamburg-Nord district assembly , and since 2002 as a member of the GAL and the Greens. Her political work focuses on the environment and urban development. In 2011, she ran again successfully both in the choice of district assembly Hamburg-Nord in the constituency Eppendorf Winterhude and in the state election in the constituency Barmbek-Uhlenhorst-Dulsberg , but where they could obtain no mandate. In the district assembly, she became deputy parliamentary group leader and spokesperson for the environment and consumer protection of the GAL parliamentary group, and from 2013 deputy chairwoman of the district assembly.

In the state elections in Hamburg in 2015 , Sparr took 33rd place on the Greens state list and 2nd place on the constituency list for the Fuhlsbüttel-Alsterdorf-Langenhorn constituency , but did not receive a mandate. On April 15, 2015, she moved up to the 21st parliament for Katharina Fegebank , who had been elected Second Mayor and Senator . In her group, Sparr is the spokesperson for the environment, nature conservation, energy and agriculture. She was a member of the Environment and Energy Committee and the Submission Committee, as well as a deputy member of the Urban Development Committee. She no longer belongs to the citizenship elected in 2020. After the 2020 general election, she moved up again for a Senate member in parliament.

Publications (selection)

  • Marie de Gournay's writings on the French language and literature and their reception in the first half of the 17th century. Master's thesis, University of Hamburg, 1993.
  • Winterhude from A - Z: the district dictionary. Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-929229-65-X .
  • with Elke Groenewold: Between new construction and destruction: The Jarrestadt 1929 to 1945. Jarrestadt-Archiv, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-00-010924-2 .
  • Soap factory Karl Walter: a piece of industrial history on Jarrestrasse. Jarrestadt-Archiv, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035228-7 .
  • Stumbling blocks in Hamburg-Winterhude: Biographical search for traces. State Center for Political Education Hamburg, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-929728-16-3 .
  • with Björn Eggert u. a .: Stumbling blocks in Hamburg: Biographical search for traces. State Center for Political Education Hamburg, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-929728-74-3 .
  • (Ed.) Nice prospects: Hamburg for the best years. editionwartau, Hamburg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-941308-35-0
  • with Victoria Asschenfeldt: Harvestehude Eppendorf. editionwartau, Hamburg, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941308-05-3
  • (Translator) Marione Ingram, War Child: A Jewish Childhood in Hamburg , Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86218-084-4

Web links

Commons : Ulrike Sparr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The team of edition Wollenau Warteau.de. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  2. ^ History of the Jarrestadt Archive jarrestadt-archiv.de. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  3. Elections to the citizenship and to the district assemblies on February 20, 2011, Volume 2: Calculation and allocation of the mandates Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  4. New MPs move up. The Green Group is becoming more feminine. ( Memento from June 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) gruene-fraktion-hamburg.de. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  5. Preliminary result of the 2020 parliamentary elections: elected members of the 22nd Hamburg parliament. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein - Institution of Public Law - (Statistics Office North)., February 24, 2020, accessed on March 10, 2020 .