Heike Baehrens

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Heike Baehrens
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Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1955-09-21) 21 September 1955 (age 67)
Bevern, Lower Saxony, West Germany
(now Germany)
Citizenship German
NationalityFlag of Germany.svg  Germany
Political party SPD
Children2

Heike Baehrens (born 21 September 1955) is a German deaconess, religious educator and politician (SPD). Since the federal election in 2013, she is a member of the German Bundestag. [1]

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Early life and career

After training as a bank clerk, she studied religious education. She worked as a deaconess in various church fields from 1977 to 1985. From 1996 to 2013 she has been managing director of the Diakonisches Werk Württemberg, and from 2002 to 2013 a member of the full-time board of directors of social policy fields and deputy chairman of the board. [1] As a church councilor, she was a deputy to Dieter Kaufmann in the college of the Upper Church Council of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg.

Political career

Career in local politics

Baehrens joined the SPD in 1988. From 1989 to 1996 she was a member of the Stuttgart municipal council. There she was first youth and social policy spokeswoman for the SPD group. From 1992 to 1996 she was deputy chairman of the SPD group in the Stuttgart municipal council. [1]

Member of Parliament, 2013–present

In the 2013 federal elections, Baehrens moved to the German Bundestag via the SPD state list Baden-Württemberg for the Bundestag constituency Göppingen. She has since been a full member of the Bundestag Committee on Health, where she is her parliamentary group's rapporteur on inclusion and European affairs. Since 2018, she has also been serving as chairwoman of its Sub-Committee on Global Health.

In addition to her committee assignments, Baehrens serves as Deputy Chairwoman of the German-Korean Parliamentary Group [1] as well as Deputy Speaker of the Baden-Württemberg State Group of the SPD parliamentary group. She is a member of the non-partisan Europa-Union Deutschland, which is committed to a federal Europe and a far-reaching European unification process.

Since the 2021 elections, Baehrens has been serving as his parliamentary group's spokesperson for health. [2] Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, she joined forces with six other parliamentarians – Dirk Wiese, Dagmar Schmidt, Janosch Dahmen, Till Steffen, Katrin Helling-Plahr and Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann – on a cross-party initiative in 2022 to support legislation that would require all adults to be vaccinated. [3] [4]

Other activities

Personal life

Baehrens is married since 1977 and has two adult daughters and three grandchildren.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Heike Baehrens, SPD, Bundestag.de
  2. Jonas Jordan (17 December 2021), SPD-Fraktion: Das sind die Sprecher*innen der Ausschussarbeitsgruppen Vorwärts .
  3. Gesetzentwurf angekündigt - Ampel-Abgeordnete wollen Impfpflicht ab 18 ZDF , 21 January 2022.
  4. Riham Alkousaa (26 January 2022), German lawmakers debate compulsory COVID shots as infections surge Reuters .
  5. Parlamentarischer Beirat setzt sich für die Stärkung von Gesundheitssystemen ein und will Vernachlässigten eine Stimme geben, 14 June 2018 German Network against Neglected Tropical Diseases (DNTDs).
  6. Committee on the Social Order Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).