Maria Eichhorn | |
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| Born | (1948-09-11)September 11, 1948 (age 77) |
| Occupation | politician |
Maria Eichhorn (née Hetzenegger; born September 11, 1948, inPiesenkofen) is a German politician (CSU).
She was theCDU/CSU parliamentary group's Drugs Commissioner from 2006 to 2009.
After elementary school, Maria Eichhorn first completed an apprenticeship as a ruralhome economics assistant and then from 1967 to 1969 an apprenticeship as abank clerk. During this time, she also attended theBerufsaufbauschule and then studiedBusiness Administration at theFachhochschule Regensburg, which she completed in 1973 as aDiplom-Betriebswirt (FH). She then worked as a specialist teacher for a year and began studyingbusiness education atFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1974, which she completed in 1977 as aDiplom-Handelslehrerin. From 1980 to 1990, she worked as a teacher at the commercial vocational school inRegensburg.
Maria Eichhorn is married and has two children.
Maria Eichhorn joined theJunge Union in 1967 and the CSU in 1969. From 1992 to 2005 she was a member of the CSU party executive and from 1995 to 2005 state chairwoman of theFrauen-Union der Christsozialen. She has been deputy chairwoman of the CSU district association in Regensburg since 1987.
Maria Eichhorn has been a member of thedistrict council ofLandkreis Regensburg since 1972.
She has been amember of the German Bundestag since 1990. From 1994 to 2005, she was chairwoman of the parliamentary groupFamily, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and since 2006 has been the CDU/CSU parliamentary group's Commissioner for Drugs.
In 2002 and 2005, Maria Eichhorn was directly elected to theconstituency ofRegensburg and before that always via thestate listBavaria into theBundestag. In the 2005Bundestag election, she received 53.0% of thefirst vote in the Regensburg constituency.
In 2009, Maria Eichhorn no longer stood for a seat in the German Bundestag and therefore retired. Her successor as constituency representative is the CSU politicianPeter Aumer.
From 1990 to 2002, Maria Eichhorn was deputyLandrätin of theLandkreis Regensburg.
Eichhorn is a member of theCentral Committee of German Catholics (ZdK)[1] and Bavarian state chairwoman ofdonum vitae.[2]
The "KulturvereinRegensburger Domspatzen", of which she was also chairwoman, dissolved in January 2015, as theBishopric had already prohibited the Domspatzen from accepting funds from this association years earlier. The reason for this was that, in the opinion of the diocese, Eichhorn's activities forDonum Vitae were not compatible with her chairmanship of the association.[3]