Doris Barnett

Doris Barnett born Frenzel ( May 22nd, 1953 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German politician (SPD). She was 1998-2002 chairman of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs of the German Bundestag.

Life and career

After attending the elementary school and the National Trade School Barnett was from 1969 to 1970 as a typist at BASF in Ludwigshafen works. She then attended a commercial high school, where she was a high school in 1973. After that, she studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, which she finished with the first legal state exam. After completing the internship she laid in 1982 and the second state examination. In 1982 she began work as a legal secretary at the DGB and changed in 1983 in the district administration Mainz the Union for the Public Services, Transport and Traffic. In 1987 she joined the staff of the Department TWL AG, where he was until 1992 an employee representative on the Supervisory Board. The TWL were to rename the municipal utilities Ludwigshafen. There and later at the TWL AG the father of Barnett was for decades the staff council or works council. Then she headed until 1994, the welfare office belonging Social Administration of the City of Ludwigshafen.

Barnett 1992 state chairman of Friends of Nature Rhineland- Palatinate and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Panel Foundation. She is married, has one child and is the granddaughter of politician and trade unionist Max Frenzel.

Policy

She is a member of the SPD since 1971. In 1990, she was deputy chairman of the SPD - urban community Ludwigshafen and 1991 Member of the national executive of the SPD Rhineland- Palatinate.

Since 1994, Doris Barnett is a member of the German Bundestag. Here it belongs since 1998 to the board of the SPD parliamentary group. From 1998 to 2002 she was also chairman of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs.

Doris Barnett has moved 1994 on the national list of Rhineland-Palatinate and thereafter up to and including 2005 as directly elected representatives of the constituency Ludwigshafen and since 2002 the constituency Ludwigshafen / Frankenthal in the Bundestag. In the general election of 2005 it achieved 43.3 % of the primary vote. In 2009 she won with 32.4 % of the primary vote the direct mandate of its CDU - female opponent Maria Böhmer, who scored 38.4 %, but moved over the national list back in the Bundestag. There she is a member of the Committee on Economics and Technology. In the general election of 2013 she ran again in the same constituency against Maria Böhmer, lost and pulled over the national list in the Bundestag.