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Dorothee Schlegel | |
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 Dorothee Schlegel in 2014 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| In office 2013–2017 | |
| Constituency | Baden-Württemberg |
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| Born | (1959-04-27)27 April 1959 (age 66) |
| Political party | SPD |
Dorothee Schlegel (born 27 April 1959 in Rommelshausen (today a district ofKernen im Remstal) is a German politician from theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She was a member of theBundestag from 2013 to 2017.
Schlegel completed training as a Protestant religious education teacher and deacon at theProtestant University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigsburg [de]. She worked as a deacon and religious education teacher in Stuttgart. From 1992 to 1997, she studied linguistics and sociology at theUniversity of Stuttgart. In 2004, she received her doctorate inlinguistics from theUniversity of Mannheim with a dissertation ontenses in spoken language . She was a consultant at the Turkish Consulate General in Stuttgart, a lecturer at several universities, and from 2006 onwards, she worked for Frank Mentrup. She has also been avolunteer preacher since 2008 and chairwoman of theMosbach Sports Association since 2010. Schlegel is a member of the advisory board of theStuttgart-Filder Care Association, which she co-founded in 1992.[citation needed]
Dorothee Schlegel has been a member of theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) since 2001. In Billigheim , where she now lives with her husband, she ran for mayor in 2009, but with 37.9% of the vote in the second round, she came in second behind the incumbent Reinhold Berberich (43.6%). In the 2010 mayoral election in neighbouringNeckargerach, she also came in second with 45.4% of the vote in the second round, behind the CDU candidate Norman Link (54.1%).[1]
Since 2009 she has been a member of the district council inNeckar-Odenwald-Kreises.[citation needed]
In the2013 and2017 federal elections , she ran in theOdenwald – Tauberconstituency and on the SPD's Baden-Württembergstate list. While she lost in both constituencies toChristian Democratic Union (CDU) candidateAlois Gerig, she was elected to the Bundestag via the state list in 2013. There, she served on the Committee on Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and the Committee on European Union Affairs. In 2017, however, her position on the list was not sufficient for re-election to parliament.[citation needed]
Schlegel ran in the2021 Baden-Württemberg state election in the Neckar-Odenwald constituency, but failed to enter theLandtag of Baden-Württemberg.[citation needed]
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