Constanze Angela Krehl

Constanze Angela Krehl ( born October 14, 1956 in Stuttgart ) is a German politician and since 1994 MEP for the SPD in the Socialist Group in the EP.

Life and career

Krehl is living in Leipzig since 1957, earned her high school here in 1975 and then studied at the Technical University of Dresden, which she left in 1980 as a computer scientist. Until 1984, she worked as a computer scientist in different data centers, then it was the next five years no longer employed as a housewife.

In 1998 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit bestowed on ribbon.

Party

In the fall of 1989, she became involved in the New Forum and joined the following January the SPD. She was until 1996 a member of the Executive Board of the Saxon SPD, deputy state chairman until 1999 and then to 2004 state chairman of the SPD Saxony was then. From 1999 to 2005 she was a member of the Federal Executive of the SPD.

Member of Parliament

March 18, 1990, she was deputy of the People's Chamber and was established in October members of parliament, which it still belonged to the end of the eleventh legislature on 20 December 1990. From February 1991 to June 1994 she was as an observer since 1994 as a member of the European Parliament.

From 1994 to 2002 was Krehl President of the Delegation for Relations with the European Parliament to Russia until 2004 member and since then a deputy member of the Budget Committee. Since 2004 Krehl member of the Committee on Regional Development and there Committee Coordinator for the PES and S & D Group. Since 2009 Krehl is a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and the Delegation of the Euro- Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat ). Krehl is a substitute member of the Delegation to the EU - Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.