Gitta Connemann
Gitta Connemann born Saathoff ( born May 10, 1964 in Leer in Ostfriesland ) is a German politician ( CDU).
She was 2003-2007 chairman of the Enquete Commission on "Culture in Germany " of the German Bundestag.
Life and career
After graduation in 1983 at Teletta large -Gymnasium empty Gitta Connemann made an apprenticeship to a sales assistant in a shoe shop in Leer, and then graduated from in 1984 to study law at the University of Osnabrück and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, which they in 1990 with the first legal state exam ended. After the internship she was 1993, the second state examination and subsequently worked as a lawyer in a law firm in Darmstadt. In 1995 she transferred to the employer organization as Syndika Agriculture and Cooperatives Weser- Ems. Since 2001 she has been an independent lawyer in Leer.
Gitta Connemann is evangelical and divorced. It is East Frisian and is especially active in the Frisian culture.
Since 2010 she is Vice -President of the German -Israeli Society.
Party
Gitta Connemann joined the CDU in 1996 in a.
Member of Parliament
It belonged from 1996 to 1999 the Council of the velvet municipality Hesel and since 2001 a member of the council of the district of Leer.
Since 2002, Gitta Connemann is a member of the German Bundestag. Here she was from 2003 to 2007 chairman of the Enquete Commission on "Culture in Germany ". She is deputy chairman of the German - Israeli Parliamentary Group and serves on the board of the Parliament circle means the state of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group on.
Gitta Connemann is always drawn as directly elected representatives of the constituency Lower Ems in the Bundestag. In the 2005 federal election it achieved 47.1 % of the primary vote in the 2009 federal election, 45.2 % of the primary vote.
Criticism
In August 2009, she refused a camera team of the national mirror TV magazine first entry to an event in a child care center to which they had invited the Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Ursula von der Leyen. Representatives of the local press, however, remained undisturbed. Spiegel TV then brought in the public reporting the allegation of a " selective boycott press ".
In support led to Connemann to the General -Anzeiger, that by means of a " provincial farce " stereotypes about Ostfriesland should be operated. Moreover do not have permission to shoot the lady of the house, the Westoverledingen been laid before, and were the photographs of the local press is done with the consent of the parents. Is in question here is not a violation of press freedom, but the contempt of house rules and the privacy rights of children.