Claudia Winterstein | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
| In office 2003–2012 | |
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| Born | Claudia Beyer (1950-03-18)18 March 1950 (age 75) Berlin |
Claudia Winterstein (néeBeyer; born 18 March 1950)[1] is a German politician. She served asMember of the Bundestag for theFree Democratic Party (FDP) from2002 to2013, and was her party's Parliamentary Secretary between2005 and2009. She served multiple terms on the Hannover city council, and also worked as a certified economy correspondent, a lecturer, a research assistant, and a property management executive.
Claudia Beyer was born in Berlin. She achieved theAbitur at the humanisticGymnasium Steglitz [de] inBerlin-Steglitz. She trained to be a certified economy correspondent (Wirtschaftskorrespondentin) for English and Spanish.[2] Beyer intended to become an architect, but found the field inWest Berlin to be saturated with architects and short on available property lots, due to theBerlin Wall.[2] She instead studiedpedagogy at thePädagogische Hochschule Berlin [de] (PH), graduating with theDiplom.[2] She worked from 1972 as correspondent for the foreign department of awholesaler,[1] moving the following year to a position as research assistant of theDeutsche Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen [de] (German society for the United Nations). She then became its CEO for the Berlin region from 1976 to 1979.[2] She also lectured from 1977 to 1979 at the PH Berlin at the chair ofBildungsplanung [de].[1]
From 1980, Winterstein worked in her husband's architecture firm in Hannover, as the executive of the property management department.[2] She earned a doctorate from theFreie Universität Berlin in 1984, with a dissertation entitled "Migrantenintegration qua Bildungsplanung", about planning an education system to integrate Turkish children in West Berlin, in theory and practice.[1]
Winterstein joined theFree Democratic Party (FDP) in 1980. From 1996 to 2003, she was deputy president of the party's women's organisation inLower Saxony. She was a member of the state board (Landesvorstand) there from 1994, and became president of the party district Hannover-Stadt in 1996, and also of theHildesheim region in 2006. She was a member of the Hannover city council from 1991 to 1996, and again from 2001 to 2002, serving as deputy president of her party from 1995 to 1996, and as president from 2001 to 2002.[3][2]
Winterstein was a member of the federal parliament,Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages, from 2002 to 2013, where she served as party speaker for film politics, and as president of the workgroup for budget. She also was a member of theBudget Committee of the Bundestag andObfrau in the committee forRechnungsprüfung. She was a deputy member on the committee of culture and media. On 26 October 2009, Winterstein was elected as her party'sParlamentarische Geschäftsführerin [de].[3]
Winterstein did not pursue a candidacy for the following election.[4] She has worked in a freelance capacity in the field of politics advisory, for companies such asCargoBeamer from 2014 and Global Bridges from 2018.[5]
Winterstein married in 1979; the couple has a son, born in 1985.[2] She and her husband are separated.[1]
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