Hannelore Kraft
Hannelore Kraft, born Külzhammer ( born June 12, 1961 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a politician of the SPD. She's since July 14, 2010 Minister -President of North Rhine- Westphalia. Since 2007, power is state chairman of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia and deputy since 2009, federal chairman of the SPD.
- 3.1 State Budget
- 3.2 Education Policy
- 3.3 Labour Market Policy
- 3.4 Energy policy
- 4.1 chancellor candidacy
- 5.1 dealing with Ruhr barons
Origin, professional career and private life
Hannelore Kraft and her older sister grew up in the Ruhr as children of a tram driver and a stewardess in Mülheim. After completing her secondary education at the high school Broich in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1980 force initially completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk at Dresdner Bank in Mönchengladbach. In 1982, she enrolled at the University of Duisburg - comprehensive university for a degree in economics. From 1986 to 1987 she studied at King's College London. In 1989, she completed her studies in Duisburg as a graduate economist.
From 1989 to 2001 she worked as a management consultant and project manager at the government- consulting firm Centre for Innovation and Technology ( ZENIT ) in Mülheim as well as head of the network Euro Info Centre of the European Commission.
Hannelore Kraft is married in a civil ceremony since 1992 and has a grown son. Force in October 2012 married her husband in church in Namibia.
Political career
State Parliament of North Rhine -Westphalia (2000 to present)
Hannelore Kraft in 1994, member of the SPD. Since June 2, 2000 she is a Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine -Westphalia. It held there from 2000 to 2005 the constituency 74 ( Mülheim an der Ruhr II - Food VII), since 2005 the constituency 64 (Mülheim I).
State Minister in North Rhine -Westphalia (2001 to 2005)
On April 24, 2001, she was appointed as the successor of Detlev Samland of Wolfgang Clement, Minister for Federal and European Affairs ( Cabinet Clement II). Under Prime Minister Steinbrück they held office from 12 November 2002 to 24 June 2005 as Minister for Science and Research.
Opposition politician in North Rhine -Westphalia (2005 to 2010)
After the electoral defeat of the SPD in the regional elections on 22 May 2005 force was chosen on 31 May 2005 with 95.7 % of the votes cast as the successor of Edgar Moron to the chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.
With the government took office on 22 June 2005 Rüttgers force took over hence the post of opposition leader in North Rhine- Westphalia state.
Following the resignation Jochen Dieckmann as SPD regional chairman on 11 December 2006 was chosen force on 20 January 2007 at a state convention in Bochum to the new state chairman.
On 13 November 2009 force was elected to the national convention of the SPD to one of the four deputy national chairman of the new party leader Sigmar Gabriel. They received 90 %, the best result under Gabriel's deputies. In February 2010 it was confirmed on a state convention as state chairman and elected almost unanimously ranked one of the country's list for the parliamentary elections in May 2010; so she was the top candidate of the SPD for the office of Prime Minister of North Rhine -Westphalia.
North Rhine-Westphalia state election 2010
In the state elections in North Rhine -Westphalia on May 9, 2010 to the force as SPD top candidate took and Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU ) challenged the SPD won 67 seats. She lost less than the CDU reached 34.5 % but also fewer votes than in the previous elections. The favored by power red-green coalition missed a total of 90 seats, the absolute majority in the Landtag for a mandate. Then, Hannelore Kraft led exploratory talks with all represented in the newly elected parliament parties to form a government, but without success.
Force subsequently announced to want to operate a policy change out of Parliament and the Government Rüttgers thus to keep business leader in office. A few days later she said but then, to be elected prime minister in a red-green minority government. She was elected to office at 80 votes against and 11 abstentions by 90 votes in the second ballot on 14 July 2010. This corresponds to the voices of the red-green, black and yellow, and the Left in parliament. In the second ballot gave a simple majority. The Cabinet Ministers were appointed and sworn I force on 15 July 2010. In order to form a government was completed 67 days after the state elections.
From 1 November 2010 to 31 October 2011, she was in rotation Federal President. She has held this office as the first woman in the history of the Federal Council.
North Rhine-Westphalia state election 2012
After the parliament had unanimously decided its dissolution on 14 March 2012, new elections were held. In the election on May 13, 2012 with 39.1%, the SPD scored the most votes and now had with the Green Party has an absolute majority of seats in the new Düsseldorf parliament. On June 20, 2012 Hannelore was elected power by 137 votes in the first ballot again as prime minister of North Rhine- Westphalia. That's nine more votes than the Red-Green Coalition Member raises. At the state convention of the SPD in Münster force was almost unanimously re-elected in September 2012 as party leader in North Rhine -Westphalia.
As Minister President of North Rhine -Westphalia
State budget
With her assumption of office as Prime Minister of North Rhine -Westphalia in 2010 established force a policy of " preventive social policy." Here she discusses the consolidation of public finances subordinated to the goal of long term saving funds with spending on " social prevention ", such as institutionalization, Hartz IV and prison.
The state budgets provided by their government for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 were respectively assessed by the country's Constitutional Court in Münster as unconstitutional and partially annulled. In support led Michael Bertram, President of the Constitutional Court in 2011 that the new borrowing was higher than the level of investment. Through a cyclical increase in tax revenues, the actual debt in 2011 was below the limit set by the state constitution.
The rejection of the 2012 draft budget by the majority of Members of Parliament led to the election of the country's Parliament and a new red-green state government under Hannelore Kraft (Cabinet force II).
The strengthening of poorer communities should be guaranteed in 2014 by a local solos by 59 donor communities. In particular, the small town of Monheim am Rhein looks at a disadvantage for fiscal consolidation of the past and has announced a lawsuit.
Education policy
In its election manifesto for the 2010 election power provided for a comprehensive review of education policy; they wanted to abolish the tripartite school system and replace it with a longer common primary school and that builds community school. The decision whether a high school after eight or nine years is reached, should be left to the schools and parents. The kindergarten fees should be abolished. The tuition fees in the universities of the country were abolished.
Labor market policy
2011 passed the state legislature under Hannelore Kraft, an amendment to the state Personnel Representation Act. This personnel participation was revised in the public service.
2012 was the tilted CDU and FDP in 2006 collective agreements law that links the award of public contracts to compliance with collective agreements, re-enacted.
Energy policy
In a parliamentary debate in September 2012 gave power to ensure that by 2015 at least 30 percent of the electricity produced in North Rhine -Westphalia to be generated from renewable sources. At the same time, the industrial center of gravity of the economy remain.
For the transition phase of the degradation of particular domestic coal should still be possible to be further promoted and also the construction of coal-fired power plants on the basis of the applicable laws. From nuclear energy she wants to get off completely.
As part of the coalition negotiations after the parliamentary election in 2013 they said in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung that the retention of jobs in the domestic industry should have priority over the energy turnaround.
Federal policy
After the parliamentary elections of 2009 Hannelore moved force as deputy party chairman next Andrea Nahles, Olaf Scholz, Manuela Schwesig and Klaus Wowereit in the SPD executive on. She took part in this function 2013 the coalition negotiations with the CDU. Public was a loud confrontation with Alexander Dobrindt on budgetary policy in this context.
Hannelore Kraft is committed to, among other things, the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage. They wanted to prevent as decided by the black-yellow government and passed by the Bundestag in the fall of 2010, extending the life of nuclear power plants through the Bundesrat, along with other state governments. It also regards the envisaged reductions in payroll and income tax due to the deficit in the federal budget for not financially viable. Also as part of the 2011 health care reform came into force the black-yellow government partly carried introduction of capitation in the statutory health insurance would not agree to force. Instead, she argues for the introduction of a universal health insurance.
Power demanded similar as before Guido Westerwelle, " nonprofit jobs" for unemployment benefit II recipients, so that a " general interest labor market " arises. This would require no additional costs for the state and is also necessary, since a structural unemployment prevails. However, he maintained power she wanted, in contrast to Westerwelle no compulsion to work, but put on the voluntary commitment of long-term unemployed.
Financially troubled municipalities are to receive aid from the country and can also apply for money from the " Aufbau Ost " program that is to be converted into an all-German compensation fund. The sale of all land holdings in Westdeutsche Landesbank, which was posted since the financial crisis of 2007 and was criticized in their structure of the European Union, force first declined. WestLB was settled in 2012.
Chancellor candidacy
From the media Hannelore Kraft has often been rumored as a possible SPD candidate for chancellor. These messages they disagreed vehemently at a special meeting of the SPD parliamentary group on November 29, 2013 in Dusseldorf. Before the SPD parliamentary group affirmed force: "I will never, ever compete as chancellor. I stay in North Rhine -Westphalia. You can count on you. "
Others
Confrontation with Ruhr barons
Journalist David Schraven pointed out in his blog ruhrbarone.de on 16 June 2009 indicates that from 2006 to Kraft's official resume work as a management consultant for the Mülheim Centre for Innovation and Technology ( Zenit GmbH) in the years 1989-2001 was deleted. In this context Schraven recalled to a funding scandal in 2007, in which the Zenit GmbH was involved. Force was therefore accused of manipulation of the resume. She justified, they saw themselves thus brought "unlawful" in connection with the funding scandal. On 29 June 2009 force tried in vain to move Schraven by declaration of a withdrawal of the statement.
Awards
- 2012: Marie- Juchacz badge
- Order of Merit of North Rhine -Westphalia