Ursula Heinen-Esser

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Ursula Heinen-Esser (before 2007)

Ursula Heinen-Esser (born October 7, 1965 in Cologne ) is a German politician ( CDU ). On May 29, 2018 she was appointed Minister for the Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 2016 to May 2018 she was part of the management of the Federal Association for Final Storage .

From 2007 to 2009 she was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection and from 2009 to 2013 Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1984 at the Liebfrauenschule Cologne , Ursula Heinen-Esser completed a degree in economics at the University of Cologne , which she completed in 1990 with a degree in economics. After working as a freelancer for the business editorial department of the Kölnische Rundschau during her studies from 1987 to 1990 , she started working as an editor for the business newspaper AKTIV after completing her studies . From 1994 to 1998 she finally headed the economic, social and societal policy department of the CDU federal office.

Ursula Heinen-Esser is Catholic , married and has one daughter. She is the daughter of the historian Ernst Heinen .

Political party

In 1983 she joined the CDU and the Junge Union as a student . During her studies, she was involved in the Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS) and was its chairman at the University of Cologne.

Ursula Heinen-Esser was deputy chairwoman of the CDU district association in Cologne from 1998 to 2003 and was elected deputy CDU state chairwoman of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2003 . She has also been a member of the executive committee of the European People's Party (EPP) since 1998 and of the CDU federal executive committee since November 2006 .

MPs

Ursula Heinen-Esser was a member of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2013 . Here she was chairwoman of the young group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group until 2002 . She has been a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee since 2002 and from 2002 to 2005 she was the group's representative for consumer protection and food safety as well as deputy chairwoman of the women's group. From December 2005 until her appointment as Parliamentary State Secretary in September 2007, she was chairwoman of the women’s group in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and deputy chairwoman of the parliamentary group's working group on food, agriculture and consumer protection . Ursula Heinen-Esser has always entered the Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia .

In the early state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 13, 2012, she won a mandate as a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament . She ran unsuccessfully in the constituency of Cologne VI , but moved into the state parliament via number 3 on the list. On May 21, she announced that she would not accept her state parliament mandate because she would like to remain a member of the Bundestag and continue to carry out her previous tasks.

On October 1, 2012, Heinen announced that she would no longer run for the Bundestag in 2013 for family reasons.

Public offices

"It won't get any better in the future." - Ursula Heinen-Esser in the Knechtsteden forest district (2019)

On September 7, 2007, she was appointed to the cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection . In the Cabinet Merkel II she was from 29 October 2009 to 22 October 2013 Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety . She then remained in office as managing director and headed the German delegation at the UN climate conference in Warsaw from November 11 to 22, 2013. In April 2014, she was appointed alongside Michael Müller as one of the two chairmen of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste . On May 29, 2018, she was appointed Minister for the Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection in his cabinet by North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet . To do this, she resigned from her position at the Federal Agency for Final Storage.

further activities

Until 2014, Heinen-Esser was chairwoman of the supervisory board of the Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) mbH and the Institute for Security Technology (IsTec) GmbH, which was founded by the company, and she was also a member of the SME council at the KfW Reconstruction Loan Corporation . After the federal election in 2013, these offices were passed on to your successor, Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter (SPD). She was also a member of the Board of Trustees at the Max Planck Institute for Social Research and the Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research until 2013 . Since 2016, she has been the founding managing director of the Federal Association for Final Storage .

Web links

Commons : Ursula Heinen-Esser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ministry of the Environment NRW: Detail. Retrieved July 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://www.ursula-heinen.de/index.php?mode=person
  3. ↑ Ursula Heinen-Esser: The wording of the press release on the page of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from May 21, 2012
  4. ↑ Heinen-Esser no longer competes. rundschau-online.de, October 1, 2012, accessed on October 8, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Maintain diverse forest functions in the face of climate change. Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 11, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 19th UN climate conference comes to an end. tagesschau.de, November 22, 2013, archived from the original on November 25, 2013 ; Retrieved November 22, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Commission “Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste”. Retrieved September 15, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Ursula Heinen-Esser, CDU / CSU ( Memento from June 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Hendricks announces important personnel decisions regarding the reorganization in the repository area , BMUB, August 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Heinen-Esser, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdB, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne