Kordula Schulz-Asche | |
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 Schulz-Asche in 2020 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2017–2025 | |
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| Born | (1956-12-31)31 December 1956 (age 68) |
| Political party | Greens |
| Alma mater | Free University of Berlin |
Kordula Schulz-Asche (born 31 December 1956) is a German politician ofAlliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofHesse from 2013 to 2025.[1]
Schulz-Asche was born inBerlin. After graduating from the Lily-Braun-Oberschule in Spandau and training as a nurse with theGerman Red Cross (DRK), she studied communication sciences, history and political science at theFree University of Berlin.
From 1986 to 1998 Schulz-Asche lived with her husband, the African economistHelmut Asche [de], and her daughter in various African countries (Burkina Faso, Rwanda and Kenya). During this time she worked for development organisations in the field of health education. From 2000 to 2003 she worked for theGerman Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ).
From 1983 until1985, Schulz-Asche was a member of theState Parliament of Berlin.[2]
Schulz-Asche later served as a member of theState Parliament of Hesse from 2003 to 2013. In that capacity, she was her parliamentary group's spokesperson for social, demographic, health and disability policy.
AlongsideTarek Al-Wazir, Schulz-Asche led her party’s delegation in the negotiations to form its first-evercoalition government with theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) under the leadership ofVolker Bouffier following the2013 state elections.[3]
Schulz-Asche first became a member of the Bundestag in the2013 German federal election.[4]
In parliament, Schulz-Asche was a member of the Health Committee.[5] In 2022, she also joined the Subcommittee on Global Health. For her parliamentary group, she was spokesperson for care policy and for policy on the elderly.[6]
In addition to her committee assignments, Schulz-Asche was part of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for the States ofEast Africa, which is in charge of maintaining inter-parliamentary relations withEthiopia,Burundi,Djibouti,Eritrea,Kenya,Rwanda,Somalia,Sudan andUganda.
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 German elections, Schulz-Asche was part of her party's delegation in the working group on health, co-chaired byKatja Pähle,Maria Klein-Schmeink andChristine Aschenberg-Dugnus.[7]
In early 2024, Schulz-Asche announced that she would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[8]
Amid theCOVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Schulz-Asche joined forces with five other parliamentarians –Gyde Jensen,Konstantin Kuhle,Andrew Ullmann,Dieter Janecek andPaula Piechotta – on a cross-party initiative to support legislation that would have required all those who have not had yet been vaccinated to receive counselling before later requiring all adults above 50 years to be vaccinated.[13][14]
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