Kirsten Lühmann | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
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| Born | (1964-04-28)28 April 1964 (age 61) Oldenburg, Germany |
| Political party | SPD |
Kirsten Lühmann (born 1964) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), deputy federal chairwoman of theGerman Civil Service Federation and, since theGerman federal elections of 2009, amember of parliament for the SPD.
Lühmann was born on 28 April 1964 inOldenburg in North Germany. She lives inHermannsburg in the district ofCelle. In 1983 she completed her A levels (Abitur) and became the first policewoman to join the Lower Saxony Police, rising to the rank of senior police commissioner (Polizeioberkommissarin).[1]
Lühmann is the deputy chairman of the SPD sub-district ofCelle, chairman of the SPD party on Celle District Council and a member of the parish council of Hermannsburg. In the federal elections of 2009, she ran for the constituency ofCelle – Uelzen as the successor toPeter Struck who, after 29 years in theBundestag, no longer wished to seek re-election. With 32.3% of the vote, she was unable to secure the direct mandate and the constituency went toHenning Otte of the CDU. However, Lühmann entered the Bundestag by getting onto the state list.
Since joining the Bundestag, Lühmann's focus has been on employment and social politics and an energy policy firmly committed to ending nuclear power. She has been a member of the Committee on Transport since 2009. She is also an alternate member of the Committee on Home Affairs;[2] most notably, she refuses to support the deployment of theBundeswehr at home.[3] In 2014, she became the SPD parliamentary group's spokeswoman for transport and digital infrastructure. In addition to her committee assignments, she has been a member of the German delegation to theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019.[4]
Since 2014, Lühmann has been part of the parliamentary group’s leadership under chairmanThomas Oppermann. Within the parliamentary group, she was a member of the working group on gender equality and the Afghanistan/Pakistan task force from 2009 to 2013.
In the negotiations to form acoalition government under the leadership ofChancellorAngela Merkel following the2017 federal elections, Lührmann was part of the working group on transport and infrastructure, led byMichael Kretschmer,Alexander Dobrindt andSören Bartol.
In addition to her parliamentary work, Lühmann is the deputy federal chairwoman of theGerman Civil Service Federation (DBB Beamtenbund und Tarifunion), since 1998 a member of the executive board of the women's delegation (Bundesfrauenvertretung) to the Federation and a member of the federal executive board of the Commission for Staff and Worker Participation (Bundeshauptvorstandskommission Personalvertretung und Mitbestimmung), as well as a member of the Experts' Commission forInternal Security. Furthermore, she is the deputy chairman of the German Police Union in Lower Saxony. At the same time she belongs to theEuropean Confederation of Independent Trade Unions, where since 2005 she has been chairman of the Special Commission for Women's Rights and Sexual Equality (FEMM). She is also a member of the Special Commission for Employment and Social Affairs (SOC). She represents the dbb on the executive board of the network, the European Movement in Germany.[5]
In 2019, Lührmann announced her candidacy for the position as chair of theGerman Police Trade Union.[6] In August 2020, she also announced that she would not stand in the2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[7]
Lühmann has been married since 1988 and has three daughters.[9]
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