Ursula Sowa

Ursula Sowa b. Knauer (born June 8, 1957 in Würzburg ) is a German politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .

Life

After graduating from Eichendorff-Gymnasium Bamberg in 1976 , Sowa studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts until 1982 . Since 1983 she worked in Bamberg, since 1990 with her own architectural office. She is married, has three children and is Evangelical Lutheran.

Political career

From 1990 to 2002 she was a member of the Bamberg City Council for the Green Alternative List (GAL), and since 2000 she has been chairwoman of the GAL parliamentary group. She has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 2000 . For the local elections in 2008 she was nominated as the top candidate of the GAL for the city council and also elected in this.

In 2002 she was elected to the 15th German Bundestag via the Bavarian state list for Alliance 90 / The Greens and was a member of it until 2005. Your constituency was Bamberg . Sowa was a member of the Petitions Committee and the Culture and Media Committee, and since January 2005 also the Education and Research Committee. She was the chairwoman of the “Culture in Germany” commission of inquiry .

In 2000 she ran for the first time in the mayoral election in Bamberg and achieved 13.9%, the third-best result of five candidates. Mayor Herbert Lauer , who ran for the ÜBG and CSU, was re-elected with 53.2% , while the SPD candidate Klaus Zachert achieved 18.9%. In the 2006 election she ran again for the post of Lord Mayor of Bamberg and achieved fourth place with 14.6% of the votes after the candidates of the SPD, CSU and the Bamberg civic bloc. In the runoff election, Sowa and the GAL supported the SPD candidate, Andreas Starke , who was then also elected mayor. When the GAL was nominated for the mayoral election in 2012, she was defeated by Wolfgang Grader, her deputy as parliamentary group leader in the city council and chairman of the Tibet Initiative Germany .

From 2016 to 2018 she headed the GAL Bamberg city council group.

In the state elections in Bavaria in 2008 she ran in the district of Bamberg-Stadt , in 2013 in the district of Bamberg-Land , and again in Bamberg-Stadt in 2018 . In 2018 she stood as the top candidate of the Greens from Upper Franconia . In the election she defended her first place on the list and reached second place among the green direct candidates in her constituency of Bamberg-Stadt with 21.7 percent of the first votes and moved into the Bavarian state parliament. The parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen appointed her spokesperson for building policy. Ursula Sowa is a member of the Committee for Building, Housing and Transport. Furthermore she is deputy. Chairwoman of the prison advisory board in Bamberg and deputy Chairwoman of the prison advisory board in Ebrach.

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Biography. Bavarian State Parliament.
• own web presence

supporting documents

1. ↑ Portrait of Ursula Sowa ( Memento of the original dated May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the GAL newspaper, accessed December 20, 2011.  
2. ^ Election of the mayor in Bamberg from 1945 . City of Bamberg. Archived from the original on February 22, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
3. ^ Habemus Wolfgang , accessed December 20, 2011.
4. ↑ Board of Directors / Board Members . Tibet Initiative Germany. Archived from the original on November 28, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 19, 2017. 
5. ↑ Ursula Sowa. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .