Viola by Cramon-Taubadel

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Viola by Cramon-Taubadel

Viola von Cramon-Taubadel (born March 23, 1970 in Halle (Westphalia) ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 2009 to 2013 she was a member of the German Bundestag. She has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019.

Career

Education and first employment

Viola von Cramon grew up with her younger sister as the daughter of the restaurant owner Hartwig Gehring and his wife Margrit in Werther. In 1989 she graduated from the Ratsgymnasium Bielefeld . Between 1990 and 1991 she did an agricultural internship at a Demeter farm in Upper Bavaria . Between 1992 and 1993 she was an Erasmus scholar at Wye College in Kent, England . This was followed in 1993 a voice and study in Russia , in 1994 there an internship as part of a World Bank - Project study in Voronezh and Belgorod and 1995, a study visit to Estonia .

In 1996 she started working as an assistant in the economic policy advisory project of the federal government at the Ukrainian government in Kiev . She studied agricultural economics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and graduated in 1997 as a qualified agricultural engineer. Between 1995 and 1996 she worked there as a student assistant at the chair for environmental and resource economics . From 1993 to 1999 she also worked as an editor at Agra-Europe and other publishers. From 1997 to 2004 she did independent project work in Central and Eastern Europe. Between 2006 and 2007 she attended lectures at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York .

Engagement in local politics

At the municipal level, von Cramon was for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Radolfshausen municipal council between 2001 and 2006 , where he helped to set up the local Green Association. From 2003 to 2006 she sat for the Greens in the Göttingen district council and was on the green district executive from 2002 to 2005. From 2003 to 2006 she was also a member of the overall board of the landscape management association in the Göttingen district.

At the Greens she was a delegate for the party-internal federal working group (BAG) North-South, a delegate for the BAG consumer protection, food and agriculture, spokeswoman for the Lower Saxony LAG consumer protection, food and agriculture. From 2007 to 2009 she was the spokesperson for the regional working group (LAG) for Europe and international politics. For the Lower Saxony state elections in 2008 , Cramon was a green direct candidate for constituency 15 Duderstadt and was on list number 28 on the green state list, but did not win a mandate.

Entry into the Bundestag

She ran for the 2009 Bundestag election as a direct candidate in constituency 52 Goslar-Northeim-Osterode , as well as in 7th place on the green state list of Lower Saxony and thus moved into the 17th German Bundestag . In the 17th electoral term von Cramon-Taubadel was a full member of the Sports Committee , the Committee on European Union Affairs and held the office of secretary . She was also a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Furthermore, she was a full member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE , as well as an alternate member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly .

For the 2013 federal election, the state delegates' conference of the Lower Saxony Greens re-elected von Cramon to be 7th on the list for the 2013 federal election . She also ran again as a direct candidate for constituency 52 Goslar-Northeim-Osterode . However, due to the Greens' loss of votes, she was unable to defend her mandate. An attempt to win against Wolfgang Nolte (CDU) in the 2014 mayoral election in Duderstadt was also unsuccessful, losing 39.9 percent of the vote.

Change to the European Parliament

In November 2018, von Cramon ran for the European election list of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen at the Federal Delegate Conference. The delegates voted her 19th on the list. In the 2019 European elections , the Greens recorded strong votes: With 20.5 percent, the party won 21 of the 96 German seats, including Viola von Cramon. As part of the Greens / EFA group , she is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and an alternate member of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy .

Further memberships

In 1991 she was a founding member of the APOLLO association ( working group for projects in ecology, agriculture and regional development in Eastern Europe ). There she worked as a regional supervisor and member of the board between 1992 and 2002. Between 1991 and 1996 she was a member of the Agricultural Science Department and student representation in the Agricultural Faculty Council at the University of Bonn. In 2001/2002 she initiated and supported the founding, development and coordination of the Internet platform Agrospezialist eV Between 2001 and 2003 she was the parents' representative in the Evangelical Kindergarten in Waake. Since 2002 she has been on the board of the citizens 'initiative No local bypass Waake eV , since 2002 member and board member (chairwoman since 2008) of the Friends' Association of the Waake primary school, was the initiator of the after-school care center for the Waake primary school in 2002, was a founding member of Kinderkram eV in 2003 , and in 2008 KulturRad eV Waake and in the same year initiator of the children's café Waake . Between 1999 and 2008 she was a member of the German Agricultural Society (DLG) Frankfurt. In 2008 she was the winner of an ideas prize at the Körber Foundation in the USable transatlantic ideas competition . Since 2009 she has been a member of the European / Transatlantic Advisory Board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. She has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Freya von Moltke Foundation since 2010.

Private

Von Cramon-Taubadel is married to Stephan von Cramon - Taubadel , Professor of Agricultural Policy in Göttingen, and has four children.

Web links

Commons : Viola von Cramon-Taubadel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alphabetical list of all elected - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f http://webarchiv.bundestag.de/archive/2013/1212/bundestag/abteilunge17/biografien/C/cramon_taubadel_viola.html Biography Archive Bundestag, accessed January 24, 2016
  3. ^ Viola von Cramon was subject to incumbent Wolfgang Nolte. In: Harzkurier. May 5, 2014, accessed July 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Green European List. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Home | Viola VON CRAMON-TAUBADEL | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cramon Taubadel, Viola von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Westphalia)