Heike Brehmer

Heike Brehmer (born 5 November 1962) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as member of the Bundestag and former district counselor of the district of Aschersleben-Staßfurt.

Heike Brehmer
Member of the Bundestag for Harz
Assumed office
2009
Personal details
Born (1962-11-05) 5 November 1962
Staßfurt, East Germany
(now Germany)
CitizenshipGerman
NationalityGermany
Political partyCDU

Early life and career

Heike Brehmer was born in Staßfurt. She completed an apprenticeship in gastronomy and afterwards an apprenticeship as a merchant for agriculture and food industry (Land- und Nahrungsgüterwirtschaft, LNG). She later qualified to a business administration graduate at a Fachhochschule (FH).[1]

From 1990 to 1994, she was a municipality director in Tarthun and from 1994 to 2003 head of the joint administrative office Bördeaue.[1]

From 2008 to 2009, she was managing director of the Studentenwerk Magdeburg.[1]

Political career

Career in local politics

From 1990 to 2003, Brehmer was a member of the Aschersleben-Staßfurt district council, which she chaired between 1999 and 2003. On 27 April 2003, she was elected in the run-off election 61.4% as the successor of Thomas Leimbach district administrator of the district of Aschersleben-Staßfurt. On 22 April 2007, Heike Brehmer joined as CDU candidate for the district council post of the new Salzlandkreis district. In the run-off election on 6 May 2007, she lost against the candidate of the SPD, Ulrich Gerstner.

Member of Parliament, 2009–present

In June 2009, Brehmer was nominated by the CDU as the direct candidate for the constituency of Harz (constituency 69). In the 2009 federal election, she was able to move as directly elected representative for the first time in the German Bundestag, receiving 33% of the first votes.[2] In 2013 federal election she was re-elected with 46%, in 2017 federal election with 36.4%.

From 2009 to 2013, Brehmer was a full member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and the Committee on Tourism, which she chaired from 2014 until 2017.[1] Furthermore, Brehmer has been the deputy chairman of the workers' group of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.[3] Since 2013, she is chairwoman of the Saxony-Anhalt regional group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, and in 2014, she joined the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigning committee chairpersons based on party representation.[1] Brehmer took over the chairmanship of the Committee on Petitions with the 2017 term.

Since 2009, Brehmer has been a member of the Federal Council of the CDU Association for Municipal Policies (Kommunalpolitische Vereinigung, KPV),[1] since 2010 also deputy chairman of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt under the leadership of chairman Holger Stahlknecht.

Political positions

In June 2017, Brehmer voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[4]

Personal life

Brehmer is of Roman Catholic denomination, divorced and has two children.[1]

References
  1. Heike Brehmer, Bundestag.de
  2. stala.sachsen-anhalt.de
  3. "Archivlink". Archived from the original on November 14, 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  4. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
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