Andrea Nahles
Andrea Maria Nahles ( born June 20, 1970 in Mendig ) is a German politician (SPD). She was from 2009 to 2013 Secretary General of the SPD, before she was 2007-2009 Deputy National Chairman. From 1995 to 1999 she was National Chairman of the Young Socialists. In the current grand coalition (Cabinet Merkel III) it is labor and social affairs.
Origin and study
Andrea Nahles grew up as the daughter of a master mason in Rhineland-Palatinate district of Mayen - Koblenz in the volcanic Eifel. In 1989, Nahles on Megina Gymnasium Mayen, the Abitur. In the high school newspaper, she was the career aspirations " housewife or Chancellor " to. She studied 20 semester Politics, Philosophy and German at the Rheinische Friedrich -Wilhelms -University Bonn. The Master of Arts degree in the subjects Newer and Older German and political science reached at Jürgen Fohrmann.
During her studies she was an employee of a Member of Parliament. In 2004 she was a doctoral student at the Department of Germanic Studies, the working title of their planned dissertation was Walter Scott's influence on the development of the historical novel in Germany. With their re-entry into the Bundestag in 2005 Nahles presented, however, a work on its promotion.
SPD politician
Andrea Nahles came even as a high school student with 18 years of the SPD in 1989, she founded the local branch of the SPD in the hamlet. For several years she was chairman of the Young Socialists sub- district of Mayen- Koblenz. 1993 to 1995, she held the presidency of the Young Socialists in the Rhineland- Palatinate. In 1995 she was elected national chairman of the Young Socialists. "The new Young Socialist Party leader, who like also refers to its women's political work, emphasizes the finding that they neither of the two major stock - belongs within the Young Socialists - who took part and reform socialists. However, she was elected at the weekend with the voices of the traditionalist left, whose candidate, former Young Socialist boss Thomas Westphal, no longer had begun, "wrote the newspaper.
Member of the SPD leadership she has been since 1997, since 2003 it belongs to the SPD presidium. She led the project group Citizens Insurance of the SPD party executive. Since 2000, she was the founding chairman of the Democratic Left Forum 21, which is taken the place of the Frankfurt circle as a merger of the SPD - Left. The chair she gave on 15 February 2008 to Björn Böhning. From 2002 to 2003 she worked in the IG Metall liaison office in Berlin. Already in the discussion of the Agenda 2010, she was among the leading internal party critics of the policy of Gerhard Schröder.
On 31 October 2005 she sat down in the party leadership in a crucial vote for the nomination to the Secretary General by 23 votes to 14 against Kajo Wasserhövel through, which was proposed by the then party chairman Franz Müntefering. Therefore, Franz Müntefering no longer stood for the party presidency. Nahles was criticized by sections of the SPD; she finally gave up the nomination as Secretary General and also rejected the post of deputy party chairman from, for Matthias Platzeck they had proposed.
In May 2007 Nahles was nominated together with Peer Steinbrück and Frank -Walter Steinmeier of the SPD leadership for the office of deputy party leader and elected on 26 October 2007 of 74.8 % of the party delegates in this office. On 30 June 2009, the Chancellor of the SPD's candidate, Frank -Walter Steinmeier took Nahles in his shadow cabinet for the parliamentary elections in 2009, and gave her the responsibility of education.
On 13 November 2009 it was SPD General Secretary; after the elections lost by the SPD took over the office from Heil. She was elected at the congress in Dresden with 69.9 % of the vote and confirmed in 2011 in this office for two more years with 73.2 % of the delegates' votes. 2013, it was re-elected, but scored with 67.2 % available to that weakest result. After Nahles was appointed in late 2013 the Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs, Yasmin Fahimi was elected at a special party conference on 26 January 2014 at her successor as general secretary.
Member of Parliament
Nahles was the first time from 1998 to 2002 and again since 2005 Member of the German Bundestag. There she was, from 1998 to 2002 and again from 2005 to 2007 deputy spokesperson of the Working Group on Labour and Social Affairs and Labour and Social Affairs; Since November 2007 she is their spokesperson. Since January 2008, she also belongs to the board of the SPD parliamentary group. Nahles always pulled over the national list of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Bundestag. 2006 Angela Marquardt was her colleague.
Nahles is a member of the Parliamentary Left and the think tank in the SPD Parliamentary Group, an association of mainly younger left SPD deputies.
Since 1999 Nahles belongs to the council of the district of Mayen- Koblenz.
Social offices
Nahles from 2000 to 2004 as a representative of the SPD Member of the ZDF Television Council. She is co-editor of the Journal of Socialist Politics and Economics ( spw ). Since 2004 Nahles chairman of the association Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Party School of the Willy -Brandt-Haus. She is also a member of the trade union IG Metall, the non-profit European Association of Euro Solar Energy Solar and Attac.
Political positions
Nahles rejected the proposed by Horst Seehofer toll for cars and also introduced by the CSU -care benefits. In the coalition negotiations with the CDU after the parliamentary election in 2013 they demanded tax increases for top earners.
Private
Nahles is Catholic. She comes from the Eifel and inhabited in Weiler ( in Mayen ) a farm on which has already lived their great-grandparents. Because of a Hüftleidens after a car accident, she is severely disabled ( degree of handicap 50).
Her partner from 1997 to 2007, the VW labor director and former Audi Board of Management Horst Neumann. Since 2009 Nahles is in a relationship with the art historian Marcus Frings, whom she married on June 18, 2010. On 18 January 2011 she brought a daughter into the world. Eight weeks after the birth of the child she took her activities again.
Publications
- Woman, believed, left. What is important to me. Pattloch Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-629-02239-4.
- The camera sees everything - How woman should behave in political talk shows. In: Sascha Michel, Heiko Girnth (ed.): Political talk shows - Stages of Power. A look behind the scenes. Bouvier, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-416-03280-3, pp. 174-176.