Aydan Özoğuz

Aydan Özoguz [ ɑidɑn œzou ː z] ( born May 31, 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German politician (SPD) and since 2009 member of the German Bundestag. ÖZOGUZ since December 2011 Deputy National Chairman of the SPD. Since December 2013, it is the successor of Maria Böhmer, Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery as the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration.

Education and work

ÖZOGUZ graduated in English Literature with minors in Spanish and Personnel Management with a Master exam. During her studies she was a member of the Turkish Student Association Hamburg and two years their chairpersons.

Since 1994 ÖZOGUZ was a research assistant project manager of the Körber Foundation in the " Coordination New projects " focusing German -Turkish projects operate. Since 1996, she led German -Turkish projects in the field of youth and scientific exchange and symposia on issues of intergovernmental relations. With the adoption of its electoral mandate ÖZOGUZ has been released from the Körber Foundation.

Political offices

From 2001 to 2008 ÖZOGUZ was a member of the Hamburg Parliament. There she was migration policy spokeswoman of the SPD and a member of the Interior, inputs and Family Committee.

At the 2009 federal election, she was elected on 14 February of the year by the Country Representative Assembly of the Hamburg SPD at number two on the country list. They won the vote against Sylvia Wowretzko with 216 to 102 votes. In the 2009 federal election, she moved into the German Bundestag. There is ÖZOGUZ Member of the Committee for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and a member of the Commission of Inquiry Web and digital society.

On 2 March 2010, the SPD parliamentary group ÖZOGUZ appointed to the Commissioner for Integration of the Group. In March 2011, she advised in this function German Muslims to boycott the meetings convened by Interior Minister Hans- Peter Friedrich, German Conference on Islam, because Frederick had this explained to a " security partnership" with the state against Islamists. The boycott came across incomprehension and criticism in parts of the CDU and the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs.

ÖZOGUZ since December 2011 Deputy National Chairman of the SPD. ÖZOGUZ is the first Turkish-born woman in the party leadership of the SPD.

In the general election in 2013 ÖZOGUZ was elected to the Bundestag with 39.9 percent of the primary vote in the constituency Wandsbek again as a direct candidate. After the parliamentary election in 2013, she was in the Cabinet Merkel III successor of Maria Böhmer, Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery as the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration.

Private

ÖZOGUZ is married to Hamburg's Senator Michael Neumann ( SPD). Together they have one child.

Since 1989 ÖZOGUZ has German citizenship. Her parents came in 1958 as guest workers from Turkey to Germany and made later in the trade of food products independently.

ÖZOGUZ has two brothers, Yavuz Özoguz and Gürhan Özoguz, run the the Islamist Muslim Internet portal market. ÖZOGUZ and her husband were questioned in an interview in 2005, according to the activities of their brethren. In the taz ÖZOGUZ explained that their views in her family would be the exception. Her husband referred in this context to other relatives, their cousins ​​, the twins Gokhan and Hakan ÖZOGUZ that form the Turkish punk rock band Athena.

Memberships

ÖZOGUZ is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Muslim Academy in Germany, a deputy since 2010 Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Historical Museum and also deputy member of the Board of Trustees of the House of History.