Ursula Groden-Kranich

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Ursula Groden-Kranich (2017) in the Paul-Löbe-Haus of the German Bundestag

Ursula Groden-Kranich (born May 24, 1965 in Mainz ) is a German politician ( CDU ), banker and member of the German Bundestag . She has been a directly elected member of the Mainz constituency since the 2013 federal election .

Life and work

After graduating from the Maria Ward School in Mainz in 1984 , Ursula Groden-Kranich completed her training as a bank clerk at LRP Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz , after which she worked there as an investment advisor from 1989 to 2014.

Ursula Groden-Kranich is married and has a daughter. She is honorary deputy president of the Mainz-Bingen district association of the German Red Cross , chairwoman of the DRK local association Mainz-Hechtsheim eV, chairwoman of the church building and community development association St. Pankratius Mainz-Hechtsheim and member of the board of trustees of the Fridtjof-Nansen academy for political education at the Ingelheim training center .

Ursula Groden-Kranich is married and has one child. She is of the Roman Catholic denomination.

politics

Political party

Ursula Groden-Kranich joined the Junge Union Mainz in 1982 and later became a member of the board of the CDU Hechtsheim and a member of the state board of the Local Political Association (KPV) of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate. She is also the chairwoman of the Women's Union (FU) Rhineland-Palatinate .

Communal work

Elected to the Hechtsheim local council in 1994, she also made the leap to the Mainz city council in 1999, to which she has been a member since then. As a member of the city council, she has the following functions:

  • Layenhof / Münchwald association
  • Member of the supervisory board of the central investment company of the city of Mainz
  • Member of the board of directors of Sparkasse Mainz

In 2004 she was elected mayor of Mainz-Hechtsheim in a direct election and was confirmed in her office in 2009. Due to her work in the Bundestag, she did not run again for the office of mayor in 2014. In 2019 she was elected to the Mainz city council with 30,977 votes.

Bundestag

In 2013, she moved directly into the Bundestag with a majority of the first votes for the constituency of 206 Mainz as the successor to Ute Granold (CDU) . In the 2017 federal election , she ran again for her party and was able to defend the direct mandate with 35.7% against the SPD candidate, Carsten Kühl .

Ursula Groden-Kranich is a full member of the Committee for European Union Affairs and the Foreign Affairs Committee . She is also the chairwoman and full member of the Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy subcommittee . In addition to the regular memberships, Groden-Kranich is a deputy in the committee for family, senior citizens, women and youth and in the committee for culture and media .

Ursula Groden-Kranich has been a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019 .

Memberships

Ursula Groden-Kranich is a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.

Groden-Kranich has been the federal chairwoman of the Kolping Society in Germany since 2018 . Since March 2017 she has been chairwoman of the state association of Rhineland-Palatinate women.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  2. ^ City of Mainz. City of Mainz, accessed on November 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ German Bundestag - Foreign Affairs Committee. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Ursula Groden-Kranich website of the European Union Germany. Retrieved January 12, 2018
  5. ↑ Change at the top of the Kolping Society . In: kolping.de , November 17, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2018
  6. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Groden crane, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz