Bettina Herlitzius

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Bettina Herlitzius
Bettina Herlitzius, Gruene NRW LDK 2008.jpg
Member of the Bundestag
In office
2007–2013
Personal details
Born(1960-07-08)8 July 1960
Bad Salzuflen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Political party Alliance '90/The Greens

Bettina Herlitzius (born 8 July 1960) is a German politician, specifically a Green Party representative in the Bundestag.

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Education and career

After school, Herlitzius studied architecture at the RWTH Aachen in Aachen where she graduated in 1989. She then worked as an independent architect until 1993 when she began her Referendariat or Training programme at the State Building Authority in the Ministry of Construction and Housing. After completing her final state exams she became director of the Office of Traffic, housing, building and road construction for Aachen county.

Political career

Herlitzius is the Bundestag representative for Kreis Aachen which is located along Germany's borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, 65 km (40 mi) west of Cologne. [1] Her initial term began in 2007 but she was re-elected as MP in September 2009. She is currently Green Party's spokesperson on tourism and housing policy. Her political career so far:-

Like fellow party member Gerhard Schick, Herlitzius is a committed environmentalist and the pair have taken steps to introduce environmental taxes within the German Parliament. [2]

Personal life

Herlitzius is openly lesbian and she has championed equal rights for LGBT couples since the 1990s. [3] She lives with her partner in a civil union and has one son.

References

  1. Bridgwater, W. & Beatrice Aldrich. (1966) The Columbia-Viking Desk Encyclopedia. Columbia University. p11.
  2. "THE GEORGIST NEWS: Volume 11, No.2".
  3. Queer:Homosexuelle stürmen den Bundestag (German)