Anja Hajduk
Anja Hajduk | |
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 Hajduk in 2014 | |
| Minister of City Development and Environment of Hamburg | |
| In office 2008–2010 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 June 1963 Duisburg, Germany |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | University of Duisburg, University of Hamburg |
| Website | http://www.anja-hajduk.de/ |
Anja Hajduk (born 8 June 1963) is a German psychologist and politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Hajduk was born in Duisburg and has three brothers. After her Abitur, she studied psychology in Duisburg and then in Hamburg. She finished her studies at the university with a Diplom in 1988. Hajduk is a lesbian.[2]
Political career
[edit]From 1997 to 2002 Hajduk was a member of the parliament of the city Hamburg.
Member of the German Bundestag, 2002–2008
[edit]From 2002 to 2008 Hajduk was a member of the German Bundestag. She was a member of the Green Party's parliamentary group, serving as deputy chairwoman of the budget committee and her group's spokesperson on the national budget.[3] Between 2005 and 2009, she also served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Canadian Parliamentary Friendship Group.
State Minister (Senator) for City Development and Environment in Hamburg, 2008–2010
[edit]From 7 May 2008 to December 2010 Hajduk was the Minister of City Development and Environment of Hamburg, serving in the state governments of subsequent mayors Ole von Beust (2008–2010) and Christoph Ahlhaus (2010).[4]
Member of the German Bundestag, 2013–2021
[edit]In the 2013 federal elections, Hajduk was again elected member of the German Bundestag where she served as Chief Whip of her parliamentary group. A member of the Budget Committee, she served as rapporteur on the budgets of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy; the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (since 2013); the Federal Ministry of the Interior; and the Bundestag; and the Federal Chancellery (2018–2021). From 2014 until 2017, she was also a member of the so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.
In addition to her committee assignments, Hajduk also served as deputy chairwoman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Australia, New Zealand and East Timor and as full member of the German-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2013 until 2017.[5]
In 2014, Hajduk was part of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Commission on Financial Policy which developed a comprehensive concept on Germany's fiscal policy.[6]
In September 2020, Hajduk announced that she would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign her seat by the end of the parliamentary term.[7]
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the elections, she was part of her party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and the national budget, co-chaired by Doris Ahnen, Lisa Paus and Christian Dürr.[8]
Other activities
[edit]Corporate boards
[edit]- Deutsche Bahn, Member of the supervisory board (since 2022)[9][10]
- German Investment Corporation (DEG), Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2022)[11]
- ic3s Information, Computer und Solartechnik AG, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2012)
- mdex AG, Member of the supervisory board (–2015)[12]
Non-profit organizations
[edit]- GIZ, member of the supervisory board (since 2014)[13]
- Denkwerk Demokratie, member of the advisory board
- Heinrich Böll Foundation, member of the supervisory board (2002–2009)
- Institute for Federal Real Estate, member of the board of directors (2002–2009)
- Hamburger Symphoniker, member of the advisory board (2002–2007)
- Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), alternate member of the board of directors (2002–2005)
References
[edit]- ^ Werner Musseler (2 December 2021), Neue Staatssekretäre: Habeck holt Grünen-Spitzenpersonal ins Superministerium Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
- ^ Blech, Norbert (19 May 2005). "Acht Homos im neuen Bundestag". www.queer.de (in German). Archived from the original on 29 October 2007. Retrieved 17 September 2007.
- ^ Andreas Cremer and Brian Parkin (September 5, 2006), Steinbrueck Says German 2006 Deficit May Fall to 2.8% Bloomberg.
- ^ Lebenslauf Anja Hajduk (GAL)[permanent dead link] Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg, Senatskanzlei (in German) Accessed August 6, 2008 [dead link]
- ^ Vorstände der Parlamentariergruppen in der 18. Wahlperiode Archived 2014-11-03 at the Wayback Machine Bundestag.
- ^ "Vorstellung der Fachkommission".
- ^ Andreas Dey (September 10, 2020), Anja Hajduk: Grünen-Politikerin zieht sich aus Bundestag zurück Hamburger Abendblatt.
- ^ Britt-Marie Lakämper (21 October 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
- ^ Daniel Delhaes (1 June 2022), Grüne missachten die Frauenquote im Bahn-Aufsichtsrat Handelsblatt.
- ^ Thomas Wüpper (15 June 2022), DB-Aufsichtsrat: Anja Hajduk wird neues Mitglied Der Tagesspiegel.
- ^ Supervisory Board German Investment Corporation (DEG).
- ^ Peter Ulrich Meyer (10 August 2016), Nebeneinkünfte: Wie viel Hamburger Politiker dazuverdienen Hamburger Abendblatt.
- ^ State Secretary Kitschelt elected new chairman of GIZ Supervisory Board Archived 2019-03-30 at the Wayback Machine GIZ, press release of March 28, 2014.
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- 1963 births
- Living people
- LGBTQ members of the Bundestag
- Members of the Bundestag for Hamburg
- Senators of Hamburg
- Politicians from Duisburg
- University of Hamburg alumni
- German lesbian politicians
- 21st-century German women politicians
- Women ministers of state governments in Germany
- Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
- Members of the Bundestag 2013–2017
- Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009
- Members of the Bundestag 2002–2005
- Members of the Bundestag for Alliance 90/The Greens
- 21st-century German LGBTQ people