Edelgard Bulmahn

Edelgard Bulmahn ( born March 4, 1951 in Peter Hagen ) is a German politician (SPD). She was 1998-2005 Federal Minister of Education and Research and from 2005 to 2009 chairman of the Committee on Economics and Technology of the German Bundestag. In the 17th electoral term, she was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag. Since October 2013 she is Vice President of the German Bundestag

Life and career

After graduation in 1972 at the high school building Peter Hagen Edelgard Bulmahn first spent a year in the kibbutz " Bror Hail " in Israel. Then she began a teaching degree in political science and English literature in Hanover. In 1978 she was the first and 1980 second state examination for secondary school teaching. Since then, she worked as a school teacher at the Luther School Hannover.

She was deputy chairman of the Friends of Nature in Germany and was a member of the Board of Euro Solar. She was a member of the boards of trustees of the Öko-Institut, the German Federation of Industrial Research Associations " Otto von Guericke", the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the Volkswagen Foundation. She is currently a Senator of the Foundation of Lower Saxony, is among other things the trustees of German Telekom Foundation and the German Institute for Economic Research. She is also a member of the Foundation Council, which was founded by Georg Zundel Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies. She is deputy chairman of the German - American network Atlantik-Brücke eV.

Edelgard Bulmahn is married to Joachim Wolschke - Bulmahn.

Party

Since 1969 Edelgard Bulmahn is a member of the Social Democratic Party, from 1993 to 2011 Member of the SPD party executive. Furthermore, it is since 1995 chairman of the Science Forum for Social Democracy. From 1998 to 2003 she was the SPD regional chairman in Lower Saxony. From 2001 to 2011 she was a member of the Board of the SPD.

Member of Parliament

From 1981 to 1986, Bulmahn district councilor in the Municipality of Linden - Limmer. Since 1987 Edelgard Bulmahn is a member of the German Bundestag. From 1987 to 1989 she was deputy chairman of the Enquete Commission on " Technology Assessment and Rating ". Since 1991 she was a member of the board of the SPD parliamentary group. From 1995 to 1996 she was chairman of the Committee on Education, Science, Research, Technology and Technology Assessment and 1996-1998 faction spokesperson for education and research. 2005-2009 she was chair of the economic committee of the German Bundestag. She is currently a full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Edelgard Bulmahn is always drawn as directly elected representatives of the constituency Hanover II in the Bundestag. In the 2005 federal election it achieved 54.3 % of the primary vote. In the 2009 federal election it achieved 39.8 % of the primary vote. In the general election in 2013 it achieved 42.8 % of the primary vote. In the inaugural session of the Bundestag on 22 October 2013, it was voted one of the Vice- President of the Bundestag.

Public offices

Since 27 October 1998, it was in the files kept by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder Federal Government Federal Minister of Education and Research.

She brought in her tenure fundamental reforms of the German education and research landscape on the way. The project initiated by their Education Forum, in which for the first time participated alongside representatives / the inside of federal and state governments and social partners, churches, parents, students /, trainees, students and academics, put on 19 November 2001 after two years of work, 12 recommendations to redesign the German education system before. This aimed to improve the quality of school education, ensuring equal opportunities, a better individual attention and influenced the educational debate in the coming years. The recommendation for the expansion of all-day school sat Bulmahn against the fierce resistance of the union -run countries with the equipped with 4 billion euro investment program Future Education and Care to. Your going beyond proposals for the reform of the German education system failed, however, to the countries. Yet succeeded only in terms of the National Education Report proposed by Bulmahn an understanding. In the field of vocational education and training numerous occupations have been modernized or newly created as in the information and communication technologies under Bulmahn. The Vocational Training Act ( Germany ) was amended on 1 April 2005 for the first time after 35 years fundamentally. A National Pact for Training and Young Skilled Staff should ensure a sufficient apprenticeship places. The Career Advancement Training Promotion Act was expanded by Bulmahn significantly with the amendment of 20 December 2001, which was reflected in rapidly increasing numbers of participants.

The Federal Training Assistance Act ( federal financial aid ) has been successfully retreaded by Bulmahn. The allowances and basic allowances were raised significantly, capped the loan debt and lifted restrictions on study abroad. With its far-reaching reform ideas associated with the introduction of a parent -independent basic grant it but failed on the power of word of the Registrar. Only a short-term success they had ruled by law with its plans tuition and a student representative to anchor the law in the Higher Education Act, as the Federal Constitutional Court herein saw an impermissible intrusion into the legislative competence of the Länder. Lasting impact on the development of the German university landscape practiced Bulmahn from the expansion of women and the promotion of young scientists ( graduate college, graduate school, Emmy Noether - Program ), the introduction of the junior professorship, the reform of the professor grade ( Besoldungsordnung_W ), the Bologna reforms and the Excellence Initiative. The desired width of your better promotion of universities failed because of the countries that opposed the proposed pact for universities as intervention in the cultural sovereignty and complained university building for themselves.

In research policy Bulmahn continued with the program " Research for Sustainability", the initial promotion of socio-ecological research, the foundation of the German Foundation for Peace Research, develop a specific program for the new countries ( InnoRegio ) and the expansion of health research special accents. They trod new ground with the targeted promotion of dialogue between science and population in the context of science in Dialogund the establishment of the Science Years. With the establishment of the Helmholtz Association eV and the introduction of program -controlled promotion Bulmahn brought the most comprehensive structural reform of the German research landscape on the way. By the Pact for Research and Innovation, the non-university research institutes and the German Research Foundation received financial planning. Total succeeded Bulmahn despite the tight budgetary situation, to enforce a clear means growth of nearly 36% for the Promotion of Education and Research. With the election of Angela Merkel as Chancellor she divorced on 22 November 2005 from the Office.

Cabinets

• Cabinet Schröder I
• Cabinet Schröder II