Monika Heinold

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Monika Heinold
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Deputy Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein
Assumed office
6 February 2018
Prime Minister Daniel Günther
Preceded by Robert Habeck
Minister of Finance of Schleswig-Holstein
Assumed office
6 May 2012
Prime Minister Torsten Albig
Daniel Günther
Preceded by Rainer Wiegard
Member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
In office
24 March 1996 – 6 May 2012
Constituency Alliance '90/The Greens List
Personal details
Born (1958-12-30) 30 December 1958 (age 65)
Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Political party Germany:
Alliance '90/The Greens
Website www.monika-heinhold.de

Monika Heinold (born 30 December 1958 in Gütersloh) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens.

Career

Heinold grew up in Langenhorn, Hamburg,[1] and began her professional career in day care. She joined Alliance 90/The Greens in 1984. From 1990 to 1994 she was a member of the regional parliament in her home district of Segeberg.

Heinold was a member of Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein from 1996 to 2012. Throughout her time in parliament, she served on the Finance Committee, which she co-chaired from 2009 until 2012. In addition, she was a member of the Committee on the Election of Judges (1996–2000) and the Committee on Social Affairs (2000–2006).

Since the 2012 state elections, Heinold has been serving as State Minister of Finance in the cabinets of Ministers-President Torsten Albig (2012–2017) and Daniel Günther (since 2017, Cabinet Günther) of Schleswig-Holstein.[2] As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, she serves on the body's Finance Committee.

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 2021 national elections, Heinold 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.[3]

Heinold was a Green Party delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2004, 2017 and 2022.[4]

Other activities

Personal life

Heinold has two sons. In 2007, she moved from Segeberg to Kiel.[8]

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