Ute Kumpf

Ute Kumpf and Olaf Scholz

Ute Kumpf (born December 4, 1947 in Lenting ) is a German politician (SPD). From 1998 to 2013 she was a member of the German Bundestag and from 2002 to 2010 Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD parliamentary group. From November 2015 to February 2018, Kumpf was state chairwoman of the Berlin workers' welfare organization.

education and profession

Ute Kumpf was born in Lenting near Ingolstadt in Upper Bavaria in 1947 . The only one of six siblings, she completed in 1967 at St. Catherine's High School in Ingolstadt, the High School . Ute Kumpf studied economics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , moved to the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in 1970 and graduated in 1975 with a degree in economics. She started her professional life as a research assistant at the Central Student Advisory Office of the University of Karlsruhe, the BLK's pilot project at the time to set up a central student advisory service. Between 1983 and 1987 she was a. a. worked for the DGB Baden-Württemberg and the Hans-Böckler-Foundation before she was elected chairwoman of the DGB district of Calw from 1987 to 1990 . In 1990 Walter Riester brought her to the district management of IG Metall Baden-Württemberg, where she worked as the district secretary for women's work and collective bargaining policy, and from 1994 as press spokeswoman. This activity ended in 1998 when she was directly elected to the German Bundestag for the first time for the constituency of Stuttgart-Nord. She lives near Berlin.

Ute Kumpf has a grown daughter.

Party, local politics and social engagement

After she became a member of the Jusos in 1972 , Ute Kumpf also joined the SPD in 1973 . In 1975 Ute Kumpf was elected to the Karlsruhe city council, of which she was a member until 1980. She was u. a. Active in the planning and urban development committee and as a member of the regional association assembly of the Middle Upper Rhine. For her, extra-parliamentary work has always been just as important an area as work within committees: as a co-founder of citizens' initiatives in district work (e.g. in tenants' initiatives, in setting up the socio-cultural citizens' center in Durlacher Schloss) or in women's work (e.g. as Co-founder of the Karlsruhe Women's Center and the Karlsruhe Women's Refuge). In addition, she regularly did trade union training with women's and local cartels. With the birth of her daughter in 1983, together with other parents, she founded the “Rasselbande - Verein zur Erziehungsförderung”, the sponsoring association of a day-care center in parent self-management, in order to counter the care emergency for small children in Stuttgart . In addition to setting up this day care center for children from crawling age to 12, she remained chairwoman of the sponsoring association until 1987. From 1994 to 1998 and from 2004 to 2008 she was a member of the regional assembly of the Stuttgart Region Association and a member of the supervisory board of the WRS Region Stuttgart economic development agency (2004–2008). From 1997 to 2004 Ute Kumpf was chairwoman of the SPD district association in Stuttgart. In 2004 Ute Kumpf ran for the SPD for the office of Lord Mayor of Stuttgart. In the first ballot on October 10, 2004, she received 32.5% of the vote. In the runoff election, she was narrowly defeated by incumbent Wolfgang Schuster (CDU) with 45.2% of the vote .

MPs

In 1998, Ute Kumpf was directly elected to the German Bundestag for the constituency of Stuttgart-Nord for the first time, to which she was a member until 2013. In 2013 she did not run again. In 2002 and 2005 she was directly re-elected, and in 2009 she moved back to the German Bundestag, this time via the Baden-Württemberg state list. From 1999 to 2001 she was a member of the Enquête Commission “The Future of Civic Engagement” . From 2002 to 2013 Ute Kumpf was the spokeswoman for the working group “Civic Engagement” of the SPD parliamentary group and a member of the subcommittee of the same name, of which she was deputy chair from 2009 to 2013. From 2002 to 2010 Ute Kumpf was elected parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group. This activity ended in May 2010.

Honors

• Altan Gada's Polar Star Order of Mongolia (2009)

Ute Kumpf has been a regular expert for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung u. a. active in Mongolia. In this role she has u. a. constructively accompanies the process of electoral law reform. In numerous workshops and symposia, Ute Kumpf supports the development of concepts for the political and social participation of Mongolian women, the development of democratic parliamentary and civil society structures as well as the expansion of employee rights. In 2009 she received the Mongolian "Polar Star Order", which is Mongolia's highest official award, for this commitment and her special services to German-Mongolian relations.

• Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (2010)

During a ceremony in the German Bundestag, Ute Kumpf was presented with the Federal Cross of Merit by Bundestag President Norbert Lammert on December 16, 2010 . He highlighted the great civic engagement of Ute Kumpf as spokeswoman for the SPD working group, as a member of the Enquête Commission and as a member of the subcommittee on “Civic Commitment” and as the founder of the “Mitmachen Ehrensache” campaign in Baden-Württemberg. He also paid tribute to Ute Kumpf's commitment to various parliamentary groups, including a. she was deputy chairman of the German-Central Asian parliamentary group.

Web links

• Ute Kumpf on parliament watch.de
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Personal page: https://www.ute-kumpf.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ute Kumpf is the new state chairwoman of AWO Berlin - in future a female management duo. AWO Berlin, November 9, 2015, accessed on March 29, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Ute Kumpf is stepping down as chairwoman of the board of the AWO regional association Berlin. Press release. AWO Landesverband Berlin e. V., February 7, 2018, accessed on February 28, 2018 .