Sylvia Löhrmann

Sylvia Löhrmann (* March 1, 1957 in Essen ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ). Since 15 July 2010, she is Minister of Education and Training and Deputy Prime Minister of North Rhine- Westphalia. Löhrmann is also a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics.

Education and work

Sylvia Löhrmann made ​​in 1975 graduated from the BMV- school food. She studied from 1975 to 1981 at the Ruhr- University Bochum English and German for teachers at secondary levels I and II From 1982 to 1984 her clerkship followed at various schools in Duisburg, which she successfully graduated with the Second State Examination. From 1984 to 1995 she taught at the Städtische Gesamtschule Solingen, was among other things, Chairman of the Teachers Council and Member of the Executive Board. She also worked in the regional labor office to promote foreign children and adolescents ( RAA ) Solingen, among others in concept development and consulting. She was also from 1994 to 1995 Consultant for Gender Equality Affairs at the District Government Dusseldorf. In this position, she developed a women's advancement plan and cross-linked the promotion of girls.

Political career

Sylvia Löhrmann occurred in 1985 at the Greens. From 1989 to 1998 she was councilor and spokesperson in Solingen. Since 1995 she is member of parliament in the state parliament of North Rhine -Westphalia. From 1998 to 1999 she was parliamentary secretary, she was elected spokesperson in 1999. It belongs inside the Green the " governmental left ", which were established in 1995 as part of the intra-party conflicts and in contrast to the " fundamentalists " by Bärbel Höhn and Roland Appel and for the continuation of the red-green coalition in safeguarding the countryside programmatic inserting.

In the years 2000 and 2005, she was re-elected to the state legislature, where he was Group President and 2000-2005 school spokeswoman since 2005 and European policy spokeswoman of her group. She is also a member of the Main Committee, the Council of Elders and the Committee of Education and Training. She is deputy chairman of the German -Israeli parliamentarian group. For her party, she is also a delegate to the Länderrat, the highest decision-making body of the Alliance 90/The Greens at the federal level between the once annual Federal Delegates meetings ( congresses ).

In November 2009, she chose the Land Conference North Rhine-Westphalia Green as the top candidate for the taking place on 9 May 2010 state election in North Rhine -Westphalia 2010 in North Rhine- Westphalia. In the election on 9 May 2010, achieved Alliance 90/The Greens with 12.1 percent, a record result for state elections in North Rhine -Westphalia. After the election, Sylvia Löhrmann was the bargaining agent of their party for the exploratory and coalition talks. This resulted in a minority government of the SPD and Alliance 90/The Greens, under the leadership of Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft (SPD). Force appointed Sylvia Löhrmann on 15 July 2010 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Training in the Cabinet force I. It belongs in the same functions to the Cabinet force II.

Positions

Gained fame Löhrmann 2010 by the model project " Community School". The project was stopped in court at a school site. The school pilot community school culminated in a school consensus between Alliance 90/The Greens, the SPD and the CDU in North Rhine -Westphalia, with the establishment of secondary schools was opened, which is taught in integrated at least to grade 6. At the same time so that the re-establishment of integrated comprehensive schools was facilitated. In total there are so within two years in the cities and towns of North Rhine -Westphalia on 70 new schools in the longer shared learning emerged. 2011 attracted Löhrmanns Advisory Board model for the implementation of the designated her as " bosses thing " Islamic teaching profession stir. Critics say the advisory board for legally impossible. In the official hearing of the Diet before the law was passed, however, the constitutionality of constitutional law also learning has been explicitly confirmed.

During the final exams in 2011 Löhrmann harsh criticism of repeated failures in the task had to take.

Private

Sylvia Löhrmann lives in Solingen together with her longtime partner Reiner Daams, who in the department is housing promotion, housing and settlement development in the NRW Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Building, Housing and Transport since 2005 Head of Unit and in the state elections in 2012 unsuccessfully to obtain a deputy seat applied.