Claudia Nolte
Claudia Crawford, born Wiesemüller, divorced Nolte ( born February 7, 1966 in Rostock ) is a German politician ( CDU). She was from 1994 to 1998 the Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
Life and career
After attending the Polytechnic High School in Rostock Crawford made from 1982 a teaching for the electronics worker. In 1985, she was a high school and then studied engineering for automation and cybernetics at the Ilmenau Technical University, where she graduated in 1990 as a graduate engineer. After that she worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Ilmenau.
Since 2005, she headed the foreign office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Belgrade. Since April 2010, Crawford is Head of the KAS office abroad United Kingdom, London.
Since March 2009 she is an honorary advisory board chairman of the German Fire Service Association.
Crawford is Catholic and was active during their time at the College in the Catholic student community Ilmenau. She is married to his second wife and has a son.
Party
In October 1989, she worked first with the New Forum in East Germany and then joined the CDU in February 1990. From 1992 to 1994 she was a member of the CDU state Board of Thuringia and from 1996 to 2000 at the Bureau of the CDU.
Member of Parliament
From March to October 1990, she was the first freely elected People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic and was among the 144 members elected by the People's Chamber of Deputies, which has been a member of the German Bundestag on 3 October 1990. In the Bundestag it was from 1991 to 1994 women and youth affairs spokeswoman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.
From January 1999 to October 2002 she was Commissioner of the CDU / CSU Parliamentary Group for the needs of disabled and 2002-2005 Deputy Chairman of the Subcommittee on the United Nations and country representative of the German Bundestag for the Republic of Moldova.
In 2002 she took over the national list of Thuringia in the German Bundestag, at the early Bundestag elections in 2005, it has the direct mandate of the constituency Gotha - Ilm-Kreis can not win and missed the re-entry over the country list in fourth scarce. In May 2008, she gave up the opportunity for nachzurücken Bernward Müller in the Bundestag.
Public offices
After the parliamentary election in 1994, she was on 18 November 1994 appointed as Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl Federal Government (Cabinet Kohl V). She was at her appointment 28 years old and thus reaching the youngest member of a Federal Government. On November 30 1994 she also headed the first time the EU Council of Ministers and was the youngest of the EU Council. After the 1998 election she resigned from the government on 26 October 1998.