Julia Klöckner

Julia Klöckner ( born December 16, 1972 in Bad Kreuznach ) is a German politician ( CDU). She became known in 1995, first as German Wine Queen. From 2002 to 2011 she was a member of the German Bundestag. From 2009 to February 2011 Klöckner was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Since 25 September 2010, she is Chair of the CDU Rhineland- Palatinate. Since March 2011 she has been chairman of the CDU faction in the Landtag of Rhineland- Palatinate. Since 15 November 2010, she is a member of the CDU Bureau and was elected on December 4, 2012 Deputy National Chairman of the CDU.

Life

Career

As the youngest child of a family of winemakers Julia Klöckner grew up in Guldental. After graduation in 1992 at the High School on the city wall in Bad Kreuznach Klöckner studied Political Science, Catholic theology and education. Their studies focused on international policy, agricultural policy, and social ethics, economics and bioethics. The topic of her thesis was " Structure and development of the European wine market policy ". She graduated in 1998 with the first state examination for secondary school teaching for social studies and religion as well as a Master of Arts at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. After their intermediate examination, she worked with special permission from 1994 to 1998 as a religion teacher at a primary school in Wiesbaden and then began a journalistic internship. In 1994 she was elected to the Nahe wine queen and 1995 German Wine Queen. Klöckner from 1998 to 2002 for the Department of Land Management at Southwest Broadcasting Television in Mainz as a freelancer from 2000 to 2002 as editor of the journal weinwelt active. From 2001 to 2009 she was chief editor of the magazine Sommelier from the Meininger Verlag.

Political career in the CDU

Klöckner occurred in 1997 in the Junge Union (JU), the Women's Union ( FU), the Christian Democratic Union, the European Union and the Young European Federalists one. 2001 began her membership in the JU- District Executive Bad Kreuznach, where she was employed until 2007. In 2001, she was also a member of the CDU district Board Bad Kreuznach. The JU Regional Executive Rhineland -Palatinate belonged to 2002-2007.

In 2003, she was admitted to the Federal Executive of the Women's Union. In the Bundestag, its membership began in the boys Group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in which she was vice-chair. In the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU they rose to the State Executive Committee. On January 24, 2006, she was elected to the Executive Group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and officer for Consumer Protection of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. On 8 July 2006, she was elected with 91.5 % of the delegate votes at the 59th National Congress of the CDU as Deputy State Chair. She was also deputy member of the board of the European People's Party ( EPP). On 14 May 2007 she was deputy chairman of the CDU Commission " integrity of creation: climate, environment and consumer protection " - she heads the Sub-Commission consumer protection. On 23 October 2007, she was unanimously elected vice-chairman and thus to the chairwoman of the Working Group on Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. It belonged to this group until 2009. She was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU regional party congress in Mainz with 96.9 % of the valid votes on the new Rhineland-Palatinate CDU Regional Chairman on 25 September 2010. On 15 November 2010 she was on the 23 CDU party congress in Karlsruhe with the highest agreement of all 40 candidates ( 94.43 % of the vote ) Member of the CDU headquarters. On 4 December 2012, she was (again, the best result ) elected with 92.92 % of the vote as Deputy National Chairman of the CDU.

Deputies activity

In October 2002, Klöckner moved to the federal election, a country on the list of Rhineland- Palatinate in the German Bundestag. The SPD competitors it was inferior after first votes of seven percentage points. On 14 November 2002 she was elected secretary of the plenary of the Bundestag. In addition, she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Centre for Political Education. Later she became a member of the Committee on Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture and substitute member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. In 2003 she became a member of the Enquete Commission on " Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine" and was one of the interest groups ' ethics in the life sciences and medical research "and" transplantation " to.

In the 2005 federal election, she won by about 50 years with 43.0 % of the primary vote the constituency Kreuznach first time for the CDU. On 15 December 2005 she was re-elected as Secretary in the Bundestag. In 2005 she was deputy member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. On 2 June 2006, she was a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development. In July 2008, she was for two years chairman of the newly founded to safeguard the protection of interests of consumers Consumer Advisory Board Schufa

In the 2009 federal election, she was confirmed as the directly elected representatives of the constituency Kreuznach / Birkenfeld with 47.0 % of the primary vote and 18 percentage points ahead of the SPD competitors.

After the constitution of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament on 18 May 2011 she laid down on 27 May 2011 its mandate in the German Bundestag.

Klöckner is a board member of the German Parliamentary Society. She founded the Parliamentary Forum and wine belonged to the Intergroup discussion group " hospice " to.

Twitter message to the Federal Presidential Election 2009

Julia Klöckner reported from the official Zählkommission advance the outcome of the Federal Assembly of 2009 on Twitter. About 15 minutes before the official announcement of the election results, they tweeted with respect to the final day of the Bundesliga season: "# Federal Assembly people, you can watch football in peace. Ballot worked! ". Other MPs gave the result is also in advance of SMS and Twitter announced justified but which late to not have been involved in the count.

After criticism of its premature announcement of the result Klöckner renounced the post of Secretary in the Bundestag.

Policy in Rhineland -Palatinate

On 13 June 2004 she was in the district council election of the district of Bad Kreuznach with 42,888 votes, the highest number of votes among the 50 CDU candidates elected to the county council. In the following district council elections on 7 June 2009, she ( 46 759 votes this time ) was again with the highest number of votes re-elected.

On 17 November 2009 Klöckner was proposed by the CDU state chairman Christian Baldauf as a top candidate for the state election in Rhineland -Palatinate, 2011. On 17 April 2010 she was elected on the CDU regional party in Bingen am Rhein with 400 of 402 votes (99.5 % ) for the CDU top candidate. On 4 December 2010 she was elected at the party convention of the CDU Regional Association of the Rhineland -Palatinate in Landstuhl with 99.6 % of the votes at number one on the country's list for the parliamentary election in 2011.

Julia Klöckner won in the parliamentary elections of 27 March 2011, the direct mandate in the electoral district of Bad Kreuznach with 44.4 % of votes. The CDU won, after they had achieved in 2006 with 32.8 % their lowest share of the vote at the state level, against the national trend by 2.5 percentage points added and remained 0.5 percentage points behind the SPD, which had recorded a historic loss of 9.9 %.

After the state election Klöckner was unanimously elected on 30 March 2011 the CDU parliamentary groups of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament.

Public offices

On 29 October 2009 Klöckner was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. On 15 February 2011 she put this resigned due to the change to Rhineland- Palatinate. My successor in office is Peter Bleser ( CDU).

Others commitment

Julia Klöckner is a trustee of the University of Applied Sciences Trier, the Ossig Foundation for the Friends of Children's Hospital in Bad Kreuznach eV, the Youth Room Foundation, the World Church Foundation and the Caritas Foundation " Focus on People ", whose board of trustees chairman it is. She is also patron of the Rhineland-Palatinate state Association of the German Muscular Dystrophy Association eV, the German Multiple Sclerosis Society Bad Kreuznach, of the Society of Christian hospice movement Bad Kreuznach, outpatient service eV, the multi-generational house Idar -Oberstein and the Foundation ACTION KIDNEY. In addition, she is an honorary member of the action German language eV, Ambassador of the association " Lützelsoon " to support cancer patients and children in need and their families eV, initiator and member of the jury, which is under the patronage of former Federal President Roman Herzog consumer journalism prize and member of the Assembly of the Central Committee of German Catholics.

Publications

• By Thomas Hartmann: The wine gladden the heart of man. Paulusverlag, Fribourg 1998, ISBN 3-7228-0446-9.
• By Thomas Hartmann: Underground Wine - Heavenly enjoyment. Paulusverlag, Fribourg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7228-0748-5.