Petra Pau

Petra Pau Angelika ( born August 9, 1963 in Berlin ) is a German politician (The Left ). Since 2006 she is Vice President of the German Bundestag.

Life and career

Petra Pau was born in 1963 as the daughter of a bricklayer in East Berlin. After attending a general polytechnic high school she started in 1979 a technical college studies at the Central Institute of the Pioneer Organization " Ernst Thalmann " ( ZIPO ) in Droyßig, from which she graduated in 1983 as a friendship pioneering leader and as a sub- levels teacher for German and art education. Until 1985, she worked in their trained profession. Then she began to study at the Party School Karl Marx ( PHS) in Berlin, where she graduated in 1988 with a degree in social scientist. Until 1990 she worked at the Central Council of the FDJ, they transacted after the turn with. Until 1991, she was then unemployed.

Pau is non-denominational and married since 1994.

Party

1983 Pau became a member of the SED. Between January and October 1991, she was chairman of the PDS district association Berlin- Heller village and then deputy PDS state chairman in Berlin. When André Brie had to resign because of his secretive Stasi past, Pau was elected in October 1992 on the state chairman of the Berlin PDS. This office she held until December 2001, and from 2000 to 2002, she was also deputy national chairman PDS. Within her party Pau is one of the so-called reform left and is also spokeswoman for the Federal Working Group " civil rights and democracy."

Member of Parliament

Pau belonged from 1990 to 1995 the district council in Berlin - Heller village and from 1995 to 1998 the House of Representatives of Berlin. In the 1998 election, she won the direct mandate for the German Parliament in the constituency of Berlin-Mitte - Prenzlauer Berg against Thierse, the candidate of the SPD, and Marianne Birthler, the candidate of the Alliance 90/The Greens. Pau is then fed directly elected MPs in the Bundestag and was like Gesine Lötzsch as the directly elected, but non-attached MEPs continue the Bundestag after the PDS had failed in the general election in 2002 at the five-percent hurdle. Petra Pau scored in the Marzahn - Heller village in the general election in 2005 42.6 %, in the general election in 2009 and 47.8% in the general election in 2013 38.9 % of the primary vote.

From October 2000 to October 2002 Pau was also deputy chairman of the PDS parliamentary party. Since October 2005 she has been on the board of the Left Party in the Bundestag from 2005 to 2008 she was vice -chairman. 2005 to 2008, she led the group working group on civil liberties and democracy.

On 7 April 2006 she was elected Vice President of the German Bundestag, after the original candidate of the Left faction, Bisky, had not reached the required number of votes in four ballots. On 27 October 2009 it was confirmed in the 17th German Bundestag and on 22 October 2013 18th German Bundestag in this position.

In January 2012 it was announced that Petra Pau as one of 27 members of parliament of the Left under observation is by the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution, which was criticized by politicians from all political groups. See also: Observation of the Left Party by the Constitutional protection.

She was 2012-2013 chairwoman of the Left in the Committee of Inquiry into the terrorist group National Socialist Underground

Stop The Bomb

Petra Pau is among the prominent signatures of non-partisan initiative Stop the Bomb. The initiative aims to prevent Iran obtains nuclear bomb.