Ewa Klamt

Ewa Klamt ( born May 26, 1950 in Straubing ) is a German politician ( CDU). From 1999 to 2009 she was a member of the European Parliament. Ewa Klamt was as coordinator of the Home Affairs Committee in the European Parliament on the Executive Board of the European People's Party. Since 2010 she is member of the German Bundestag and deposits with the meeting of the 18th German Bundestag on 22 October 2013 the Parliament of.

Life and career

Klamt closed 1966 Mira Loma High School in Sacramento from. She then attended two years, the American River College in Sacramento and the campus of the University of Maryland Munich. She then worked until 1971 as a translator and in 1971 for three years a teacher at the Clemens-August -Gymnasium in Cloppenburg. Subsequently, she worked from 1974 to 1976 as a freelance translator, from 1977 to 1980 as a teacher at the vocational school Cloppenburg and from 1981 as a freelance language teacher. This profession practiced Klamt out to 1999 and gave it up after her election to the European Parliament.

Party

From 1995 to 1997 Ewa Klamt was on the board of the CDU district association Lüneburg as assessor. From 1997 to 2011 was Ewa Klamt deputy chairman of the CDU district association Nordostniedersachsen (up to renaming 2005 Bezirksverband Lüneburg). Since 1998 Ewa Klamt heard as a committee member of the national board of the CDU in Lower Saxony.

Member of Parliament

European Parliament

Ewa Klamt 1999 was elected on the regional list of the CDU in Lower Saxony to the European Parliament. She was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and was deputy to the Fisheries Committee and the Budget Committee. She was also a member of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.

In the investigation conducted in the summer of 2005 discussion about illegal immigration to Europe Ewa Klamt referred as internal political spokesperson of the EPP- ED Group in the European Parliament position. She criticized the according to information provided by a narrow majority decision taken in the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament, en masse output valid residency papers to illegal immigrants. Thus, only additional incentives would be created to illegal immigration.

German Bundestag

In the general election of 2009, Ewa Klamt competed unsuccessfully for the CDU to the direct mandate in the constituency Gifhorn - Peine ( Lower Saxony) and failed to reach the Bundestag. On 29 April 2010 Klamt moved according to the Bundestag for the MEP Astrid Grotelüschen, which moved to the Cabinet of the Minister of Lower Saxony, Christian Wulff as a Minister. She is a regular member of the Committee for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. In addition, she is deputy member of the Interior Committee of the German Bundestag. Klamt joined in the general election in 2013 not again for the Bundestag; their deputies activity ends with the constitution of the newly elected Parliament on 22 October 2013.

Local Politics

At the municipal level held Ewa Klamt 1991 to 1999, the Office of the Deputy Mayor of Gifhorn and was from 1996 to 2006 district council deputy district Gifhorn.