Sylvia Kotting-Uhl | |
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 Kotting-Uhl in 2019 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2005–2021 | |
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| Born | (1952-12-29)29 December 1952 (age 72) |
| Political party | Greens |
| Children | 3 |
Sylvia Kotting-Uhl (born 29 December 1952) is a German politician ofAlliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBaden-Württemberg from 2005 until 2021.[1]
Kotting-Uhl spent her childhood in northern Baden. After graduating from high school she studied German, English and art history in Heidelberg, Edinburgh and Zaragoza. Afterwards she worked as a dramaturg at theBaden State Theatre, but when she started her family she decided on an "alternative life in the Kraichgau with self-catering tendencies".
In a second professional life, from 1985 onwards, Kotting-Uhl built up a children's workshop, which she ran for more than ten years and to which a women's workshop is now also affiliated. She also worked as a lecturer for independent educational institutions and completed a distance learning course in psychology.
From 2003 until 2005, Kotting-Uhl served as co-chair (alongside Andreas Braun) of the Green Party in Baden-Württemberg.
From the2005 national elections, Kotting-Uhl was a member of the German Bundestag.[2] She served as chairwoman of the Committee on Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.[3] From 2005 until 2009, she was also a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development.
In addition to her committee assignments, Kotting-Uhl was part of the German-Japanese Parliamentary Friendship Group, which she chaired from 2014 until 2018.
From 2014 to 2016, Kotting-Uhl was one of the members of the country's temporary National Commission on the Disposal of Radioactive Waste, chaired by Ursula Heinen-Esser andMichael Müller.[4]
Following the2016 state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Kotting-Uhl was part of theWinfried Kretschmann’s team in the negotiations between the Green Party andChristian Democratic Union (CDU) on a coalition agreement for Germany's first state government led by the Greens.[5]
In 2017, Kotting-Uhl made news headlines when she successfully filed a complaint against theGovernment of the United Kingdom for a breach of theAarhus Convention by failing to notify the German public of the potential environmental impacts of theHinkley Point C nuclear power station.[6]
In early 2020, Kotting-Uhl announced that she would not stand in the2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[7]
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