Ilse Aigner

Ilse Aigner ( born December 7, 1964 in Feldkirchen- Westerham ) is a German politician (CSU ). She was from 1998 to 2013 Member of the German Bundestag and from October 2008 to September 2013 the Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. In the election in Bavaria on 15 September 2013, it received a mandate for the state legislature and was then deputy prime minister, and Bavarian State Minister for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology in the Cabinet Seehofer II

  • 2.1 pricing of the food industry
  • 2.2 Fees for orders from ATMs

Life

Background, education and Private

Ilse Aigner grew up in Bad Aibling. Her father was an electrician. She changed from high school to the Wilhelm -Leibl -Realschule in Bad Aibling, on which they then 1981, the high school acquired. Following Aigner graduated to 1985, vocational training for radio and television technician in the family business, which she completed with the final apprenticeship examination in the electrical trade. Aigner worked until 1988 in the family business as Handwerksgesellin. From 1988 to 1990, she occupied at a technical school, a career advancement for state-certified technician specializing in electrical engineering. She then until 1994 worked for the Eurocopter Group in the development of system electrics for helicopters. Aigner is Roman Catholic, single and childless.

CSU politician

Aigner occurred in 1983 in the Junge Union (JU ) and 1985 in the CSU one. She was 1993-1999 Deputy JU state chairman in Bavaria and from 1995 to 1999, deputy chairman of the CSU district association Rosenheim country. From 1999 to 2011 she was deputy chairman of the CSU Regional Chapter Upper Bavaria. On July 23, 2011, she was elected with 98.2 % of the delegates' votes to the county chairman. The chair she held provisionally on board resolution down since 17 March 2011. Since 1995 she is a member of the CSU Board and was elected to the CSU Executive Committee as Secretary in 2007.

Deputies activity

From 1990 to 1998 Aigner belonged to the council Feldkirchen- Westerham and from 1990 to 1999 the council of the district of Rosenheim. From 1994 to 1998 she was a member of the Bavarian Landtag. There she was, among other

  • Committee on Education, Youth and Sports,
  • Committee for input and complaints and
  • State sports council operates.

Aigner since 1998, always directly elected Members of the Bundestag constituency Starnberg (No. 224, formerly 225; includes the districts of Bad Tölz- Wolfratshausen, Mies Bach, Starnberg ) joined the Bundestag. Here she was 1998-2002 chairwoman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Enquete Commission on " Future of Civic Engagement" and from 2002 to 2005 deputy chairman of the CSU party. The Budget Committee Aigner was the rapporteur for the budget of the Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture. From 2005 until her appointment to the Federal Minister Aigner was chairman of the Group of Working Group on Education and Research.

In the German Bundestag she was

  • Deputy Chairman of the CSU group
  • Member of the Budget Committee ( rapporteur for the section of the Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture)
  • Substitute Member of the Defence Committee
  • Chairman of the Working Group on Education and Research
  • Spokeswoman of the CDU / CSU Group in the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment
  • Substitute Member of the Budget Committee
  • Group Executive Board

Choice

Projection

In the federal elections in 2005 and 2009 reached Aigner most first preference votes among the German Bundestag candidates. At the general election in 2013 Aigner did not occur again. She moved back to the Bavarian politics and ran for the state elections in Bavaria (15 September 2013) in the voting district rotten creek.

Choice

Projection

Public offices

On 31 October 2008 Aigner was appointed as successor to Horst Seehofer, the Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. The swearing-in ceremony in the German Bundestag took place on November 4. Also in the Cabinet Merkel II (2009-2013, CDU / CSU - FDP coalition ) remained Aigner, Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Your second swearing-in took place on 28 October 2009. She retired at his own request on September 30, 2013 from her post to go back to the Bavarian politics. There she was Deputy Prime Minister in October 2013, and Minister of Economic Affairs in the Cabinet Seehofer II

Others commitment

Aigner is Vice President of the National Association of Upper Bavaria in the German Carnival ( BDK ). From 2001 to 2009 she was state chairman of the BRK- water rescue. As Federal Minister Aigner was a member of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Bank pension.

Positions

Pricing of the food industry

In April 2011, Aigner criticized that the food industry is founded any price increase with higher raw material costs. She stressed that the cost factors are as varied as the individual products and in that context, the amount of the share of feed costs to the production cost of a beef steaks as an example: " While the share of feed costs the farmer still amounts to around 40 percent, there are only about 15 percent of the total cost if the meat has arrived in the refrigerated display the butcher. "

Fees for orders from ATMs

Aigner particularly committed to the fight against increased fees at ATMs. Savings banks and local cooperative banks which operate 80 % of the ATMs in Germany and especially in the area are present with their machines, raised long time increased fees for cash withdrawals by customers who had no account at the bank or in the corresponding composite. Aigner continued with support from the Federal Cartel Office, these banks under pressure to reduce their fees. Since the beginning of 2011, most banks have lowered their fees for foreign customers dramatically.

Cabinets

  • Cabinet Merkel I
  • Cabinet Merkel II
  • Cabinet Seehofer II

Awards

  • On 9 July 2009 she was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.
  • The negative price dinosaur of the year received Aigner, 2012.
  • 2012: Bavarian Constitution Medal in Silver
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