Silke Stokar von Neuforn

Silke Stokar of Neuforn born Heesch ( born May 10, 1953 in Kleinvollstedt ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ).

Life and career

Silke Stokar of Neuforn ended in 1977 a training in wholesale and foreign trade clerk and then worked as a dispatcher until 1980. In 1983 she passed the Abitur at the IGS Roderbruch and then began to study law and political science, which she finished in 1990 without a degree.

Silke Stokar of Neuforn is divorced and has one daughter.

Policy

Already in November 1979 Silke Stokar was co-founder of the District Association Hanover a forerunner of the countryside. It belonged in 1981 to the founding members of GABL in Hanover and in 1982, became a member of the Green Party.

Silke Stokar of Neuforn was dated 10 May 1984 to 1987 the Council of the city of Hanover, where they nachrückte for Manuel Kiper after half the period of the Council, to. There she also served as chairman and spokesperson for the GABL / DKP group respectively from 1986 GABL Group. After being re-elected in 1986, she signed the first red-green coalition agreement. From 1985 to 1986 she was Deputy Assistant and belonged from 1986 to 1987 as Assistant to the Management Committee of the City of Hannover. From 1985 to 1986 Silke Stokar sat on the jury " award for civic self-help". They also belonged from 1986 to 1987 the Association for Leisure Education and Youth Services Hannover eV.

From 1990 to 1994 she was a full-time executive director of the District Association Hannover City of Green, after they had been politically inactive between 1989 and 1990. From 1992 to 1994 she served on the advisory board of the prison and from 1991 to 1995, the chamber at the Wehrbereichsverwaltung III in Hanover.

From 1994 to 2002 she was a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony, where she was domestic policy spokesperson of the parliamentary group of the Green Party in this period. Among her successes, she counts the police reform. But increasingly, also for you to avoid imprisonment for minor offenses in prison. 1998-2002 she was spokeswoman for the Federal Working Group "Democracy and Law".

In 2001, she ran unsuccessfully for the office of Mayor of Hannover v. Herbert Schmalstieg, Rita Pawelski and Claudia Winterstein. The Greens won at least 14.3% of the vote.

2002 Stokar was placed on the third place in the national list of Green for the 2002 elections. From 2002 to 2009 she was a member of the German Bundestag and here spokeswoman for the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group for domestic policy and deputy political coordinator of the Group of Working Group III indoor, integration, right, right-wing, petition, religion, women. Silke Stokar of Neuforn is always drawn on a state list of Lower Saxony in the Bundestag.

It is official supporter of freedom of demonstration rather than fear. On the occasion of the election of the Federal President 23 May 2009 declared Stokar, they have given the candidate of the Union parties, the FDP and the Free Voters, Horst Köhler and not supported by their party and the SPD candidate Gesine Schwan her voice, as it possible a coordinated voting behavior of their party with his left hand in an eventual third ballot, wanted to prevent. Kohler reached exactly the number of votes he needed for a successful re-election in the first round of voting in the election.

In May 2010, she was Nachrückerin as for the previous group chairman Serdar saris member of the Regional Assembly of the Hanover region. At this meeting it was fiscal policy of the Green Party. In the election in September 2011, she was set to the first list position.