Lale Akgün

Lale Akgun ( born September 17, 1953 in Istanbul) is a former German politician (SPD).

Life and career

After graduation in 1972 Lale Akgun graduated in medicine, ethnology and psychology in Marburg, which she finished in 1981 as a licensed psychologist. In the same year she took part in the German nationality. She was then until 1997 worked at the family counseling of Cologne, from 1992 as Deputy Staff Director. In 1987, her doctorate. nat. at the University of Cologne. From 1997 to 2002 she was Head of the Regional Centre for Immigration of the State of North Rhine -Westphalia in Solingen. In 1999, their license to practice as a psychotherapist. In 2008, she published under the title Aunt Semra in liver cheese country - stories from my Turkish- German family their cheerful memories of the integration process her family in Germany. In May 2013, Akgun began in the framework of Critical Islam Conference in 2013 for the establishment of an association of liberal Muslims, since the majority of German Muslims are not represented by the traditional Islamic associations. Islam in Germany is regulated and controlled from the outside, hence " the green shoots of a liberal Islam" in Germany had to be established.

Lale Akgun is married to the teacher Ahmet Akgun and has a grown daughter.

Policy

Akgun 1982 became a member of the SPD. From 2002 to 2009 Akgun was a member of the German Bundestag. Here she was in December 2005 Deputy spokesperson of the working group " Affairs of the European Union " and, since March 2006, the Working Group "Migration and Integration ". Since October 2007, she also belonged to the board of the SPD parliamentary group. She was one of five MP Muslim faith.

Lale Akgun always drew as a directly elected representatives of the constituency Köln II in the Bundestag. In the 2005 federal election, it reached 43.8 % of the primary vote. In the 2009 federal election she lost her constituency to CDU candidate Michael Paul. On the national list of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia it was elected number 29, which did not come into play. They thus retired from the Bundestag. After the change of government in NRW she was Head of Unit in the State of NRW for International Affairs and one-world policy. Since March 2013 Akgun directs the newly created competence center for sustainable and fair procurement of goods and services NRW. The project has an annual operating budget of 300,000 €.

Awards

• 2012: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2013: Giesberts -Lewin Award

Publications

• With Jendrik Scholz: Local integration policy - Problems and perspectives on the example of Cologne. In: arguments. Contributions to the discussion of future left. Issue 1, 2003 ISSN 1439-9784, pp. 57-67, online ( PDF, 63 KB).
• Aunt Semra in liver cheese country. Stories from my Turkish- German family. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8105-0119-6.
• The phony Reichstag. Aunt Semras clan makes policy. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-8105-0121-9.
• Revolt of the headscarf girls. German Muslim women fight back against Islamism. Piper, Munich, etc. 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-05381-5.
• Kebab Christmas. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-351-03370-5.