Ursula Heinen-Esser is a German politician (CDU). From 2018 to 2022 she was state minister for the environment in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Ursula Heinen-Esser is a German politician (CDU). From 2018 to 2022 she was state minister for the environment in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Heinen-Esser is the daughter of the German historian Ernst Heinen. She studied economics at the University of Cologne, graduating in 1990 with a degree in economics. From 1987 to 1990, while she was still studying, she worked as a freelancer for the economics department local newspaper Kölnische Rundschau. Later she worked as an editor at the business newspaper "Aktiv". From 1994 to 1998 she headed the Department of Economic, Social and Societal Policy at the CDU federal office.
Heinen-Esser was a member of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2013. On May 29, 2018, she was appointed Minister for the Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection by the than Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet (CDU). She hold that position at the cabinet of Hendrik Wüst (CDU) until her resignation on April 7, 2022.
At the time the 2021 floods affected the South of North Rhine-Westphalia, Heinen-Esser was at her holiday at Mallorca. She than had a breake in her holiday, but went back to Mallorca after several days. [1] The fact that the environment minister of one of the two most affected federal states was not on site was widely criticized. [2] It later became known that, in addition to Heinen-Esser, other state cabinet members were temporarily in Mallorca to celebrate her husband's birthday party. [3] The daily newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger had researched this. Municipal Minister Ina Scharrenbach, Federal and European Minister Stephan Holthoff-Pförtner and the then Secretary of State for Integration Serap Güler (all CDU) were there. According to the opposition, Heinen-Esser and Scharrenbach were actually those ministers who would have been responsible for political action in this case of emergency. Heinen-Esser and the other ministers initially refused to resign.
On April 7, 2022, a few weeks before the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections on May 15, Heinen-Esser resigned from her ministerial post. [4]
Ursula Heinen-Esser is Catholic and married to the lawyer Heinz Christian Esser. [5] The couple has one child.
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