Andrea Fischer | |
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 Fischer in 2000 | |
| Federal Minister of Health | |
| In office 27 October 1998 – 12 January 2001 | |
| Chancellor | Gerhard Schröder |
| Preceded by | Horst Seehofer |
| Succeeded by | Ulla Schmidt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1960-01-14)14 January 1960 (age 65) |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | Free University of Berlin |
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Andrea Fischer (born 14 January 1960) is a former member of the GermanBundestag for theGerman Green Party and from 1998 until 2001 was Federal Minister for Health. She dropped out of the Bundestag in 2002.
After graduating from high school, Andrea Fischer completed an apprenticeship as an offset printer.[1] She then worked as aprinter andproofreader and additionally completed herstudies in economics at theFree University of Berlin. After completing her studies, she worked as a research assistant at theEuropean Parliament, theWZB Berlin Social Science Centerand theFederal Insurance Institution for Employees (Bundesversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte).
She has been a member of theGerman Green Party since 1985, before that she was a member of theGroup of International Marxists (GIM), the then German section of the Fourth International. From 1994 to 2002 she was a member of theGerman Bundestag. After the1998 federal elections, she was appointedFederal Minister of Health on 27 October 1998, as a member of thefederal government headed byGerhard Schröder. She resigned from office on 9 January 2001 in the wake of theBSEcrisis. Shortly afterwards, the resignation of theFederal Minister of Agriculture,Karl-Heinz Funke, was also announced. In the filmSchlachtfeld Politik – Die finstere Seite der Macht (Battlefield Politics – The dark side of power) byStephan Lamby, she describes that there was massivepressure from the party leadership. The film asks whether Andrea Fischer had to resign afterJoschka Fischer's wild years (Der Spiegel edition 2/2001), not so much because of theBSEcrisis as to relieveJoschka Fischer.[2]
Fischer was elected as the leadingAlliance 90/The Greens candidate in theBerlin election on 18 September 2011, in the district assembly (Bezirksverordnetenversammlung) of Berlin'sMitteborough, where she was chair of theAlliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group until 30 October 2012.[3]
On 15 October 2012 Fischer was elected by theRegional Assembly to the office of Finance Director of theHanover Region, which had been restructured by Regional PresidentHauke Jagau.[4] It manages the areas of finance, facility management and hospitals. In April 2013 she took over as chairman of the supervisory board of theKlinikum Region Hanover.[5]
After her time as an active politician, Fischer became active as a freelance publicist andlobbyist in international health policy. From 2001 to 2009 she waspatron of theFederal Association of Experienced Psychiatrists (Bundesverband Psychiatrie-Erfahrener).[6] From 2004 to 2006 Fischer was a member of the management team of the consulting firmInstitut für Organisationskommunikation (IFOK GmbH), where she was responsible for health and nutrition. Previously, she was head of the Center of Canadian Universities (CUC) inBerlin.[7]
Fischer is Vice Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Man, Ethics and Science (Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft).[8]
From 2006 to 2009 she worked at thePR agencyPleon in Munich, where she headed the medical-pharmaceutical area of healthcare.[9] Since then she has been self-employed in this field.[10] Since April 2006, Fischer has been co-editor ofGesundheitsNachrichten, a specialist journal for the health industry.[11]
From October 2002 to the end of 2003, Andrea Fischer andBamS editor-in-chiefClaus Strunz hosted then-tv programmeGrüner Salon.[12] She appears regularly in broadcasts onDeutschlandradio Kultur, where she presents new publications of German-language crime literature.
Fischer supported theBerlinPro-Relicampaign, which failed in April 2009, as atestimonial. Since 2008 she has been thediocesan leader of theMalteser Hilfsdienst in Berlin.[13]
As a young woman, Fischer left theCatholic Church, into which she rejoined a good twenty years later.[14]
Gesundheitsminister of theBundesrepublik Deutschland:
Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt |Käte Strobel |Katharina Focke |Antje Huber |Anke Fuchs |Heiner Geißler |Rita Süssmuth |Ursula Lehr |Gerda Hasselfeldt |Horst Seehofer |Andrea Fischer |Ulla Schmidt
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