Barbara Hendricks (politician)

Barbara Anne Hendricks ( born April 29, 1952 in Kleve ) is a German historian and politician (SPD). Since 17 December 2013, it is the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety Construction in the Cabinet Merkel III.

She was from 2007 to 2013 the Federal Treasurer of the SPD and the 1998-2007 Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance.

Education and work

After graduation in 1970 at the Johanna- Sebus High School in Kleve Barbara Hendricks holds a degree in history and the social sciences in Bonn, she with the first state examination for teachers in high schools finished in 1976. After that she worked until 1978 at the German Student Union, then to 1981, speaks at the press office of the SPD parliamentary group. 1980, her PhD. with the work of the development of the margarine industry on the Lower Rhine. Until 1990 she was spokeswoman for the Minister of Finance of North Rhine- Westphalia. In 1991 she was appointed Undersecretary in the Ministry of Environment, Planning and Agriculture of North Rhine -Westphalia.

Barbara Hendricks is Catholic. She is a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics and the trustees of the Foundation Action Pro humanity and the Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld. She is also patron of the Amani Children 's Villages

Party race

Since 1972, Barbara Hendricks, member of the SPD since 1989 and chairman of the SPD sub- district Kleve district. From 1990 to 2001 she was a Member of the party. From 1987 to 2001 she was a member of the state executive of the SPD North Rhine -Westphalia, which in the years from 1996 as Treasurer. Since 2001 she is member of the party executive of the SPD. It was Federal Treasurer of the SPD From October 2007 to December 2013. In this position she held as a general trustee for the SPD 94.67 % stake in the German printing and publishing mbH ( DDVG ).

For the 2009 federal election was Hendricks Member of Shadow Cabinet of the SPD chancellor candidate Frank -Walter Steinmeier, he is responsible for the departments of consumer affairs and investor protection. Hendricks is a member of the Executive Board of the Cultural Forum of the Social Democrats (SPD ) with the main focus on funding of culture and was Chairman of the Credentials and Zählkommission the members vote for the SPD to the coalition agreement of 2013. According to her appointment as Minister Hendricks put her post as Federal Treasurer down. Her successor in office Dietmar Nietan.

Member of Parliament

From 1984 to 1989 she served on the council of the district of Kleve.

Since 1994 she is member of the German Bundestag. Here she was from October 1995 to November 1998 the Board of the SPD parliamentary group on. Barbara Hendricks is always drawn on a state list North Rhine-Westphalia in the Bundestag.

Public offices

After the 1998 election she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance in the run of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder government on 27 October 1998. In this office she was also a member of since November 22, 2005 led by Chancellor Angela Merkel Federal Government. This was Barbara Hendricks Parliamentary Secretary under three finance ministers, namely under Oskar Lafontaine, Hans Eichel and Peer Steinbrück. After she was elected to the Federal Treasurer of the SPD, she divorced on 16 November 2007 from the Office.

On December 17, 2013 appointed President Joachim Gauck Hendricks to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety in the Cabinet Merkel III.

Private

Except in Berlin Barbara Hendricks lives temporarily in her house in her home town of Kleve. End of December 2013, it made ​​the relationship with her ​​partner in public.

Trivia

Supposedly Hendricks received in the late 1980s in CDU circles the nickname " Burning Barbara " after, like this reported, have expressed on the back of the hand of the CDU politician Hartmut Schauerte a cigarette.

Awards

• 2008, together with Reinhard Loske: Adam Smith Prize for Environmental Economic policy of the forum Ecological- Social Market Economy

Cabinets

• Cabinet Schröder I - Cabinet Schröder II
• Cabinet Merkel I - Cabinet Merkel III