Veronika Winterstein

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Veronika Winterstein (born January 31, 1939 in Vienna ) is a former German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Hessian state parliament .

Life

Veronika Winterstein, née Steinborn, attended grammar schools in Augsburg and Frankfurt and studied languages ​​in Frankfurt am Main and Paris. She worked as an interpreter in French and English. Veronika Winterstein has two children and lives with her husband, the former Lord Mayor Norbert Winterstein in the Rüsselsheim suburb of Bauschheim.

politics

Veronika Winterstein has been a member of the SPD since 1969. In addition, she belonged to the Young Socialists and the Working Group of Social Democratic Women (state executive).

From December 1, 1982 until her departure on April 4, 2003, she was a member of the Hessian state parliament. It was elected from the state list. Your constituency Main-Taunus I was won in the last elections by Roland Koch and previously by his father Karl-Heinz Koch . Her work focused on women's politics, the environment, nature conservation, animal welfare and agriculture.

From 1995 to 2003 she was Vice President of the Hessian State Parliament.

She was chairman of the study commission "Future tasks of the Hessian state parliament at the turn of the 21st century".

From 1977 to 1989 she was a member of the district council of the Main-Taunus-Kreis .

Honors

On April 24, 1991 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon, and on April 4, 2003 the Hessian Order of Merit .

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 298 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 414.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StAnz. 16/2003 p. 1554
personal data
SURNAME Winterstein, Veronika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinborn, Veronika (maiden name); Kiekoben-Schmidt, Veronika; Kiekoben-Schmidt-Winterstein, Veronika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna