Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter

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Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter
Photograph of Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter with Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter with Frank-Walter Steinmeier (2009)
Parliamentary State Secretary for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
Assumed office
17 December 2013
Chancellor Angela Merkel
Personal details
Born (1962-10-13) 13 October 1962 (age 61)
Waldshut
Nationality German
Political party Social Democratic Party
Children 2
Alma mater
Religion Roman Catholicism
Website www.schwarzelühr-sutter.de

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter (born 13 October 1962) is a German Social Democrat politician, a member of the German Bundestag (the German federal parliament) and a Parliamentary State Secretary in Angela Merkel's cabinet.

Personal life and education

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter was born on 13 October 1962 in Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg.[1][2] She studied Business Administration at the University of Freiburg and ETH Zurich, graduating in 1989.[3]

She is married and has two children.[1]

Party membership and work

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1994 and has been a member of the executive board of the SPD party organization for Waldshut since 1995. Since 2001 she has been the chairwoman of the SPD constituency party for the district of Waldshut. She was a member of the municipal council of her home town of Lauchringen from 1999 to the end of 2013. Since 2004 she has also been a member of the district council of the rural district of Waldshut.[4][5]

Since September 2007 she has been a member of the SPD executive board in the state of Baden-Württemberg,[1] and from 2008 to 2009 she headed the national SPD Executive Committee's working group on sustainable mobility.[5]

Career

From 1997 to 2005 Schwarzelühr-Sutter worked as an advisor and communications coordinator/strategist for de (Karin Rehbock-Zureich), a member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament.[2]

In the German federal election of 2005, Schwarzelühr-Sutter was elected to the Bundestag as a party list candidate. She was a member of the Bundestag Transport Committee, and from 2006 was chairwoman of the sub-working group on "Transport and Climate" of the SPD parliamentary party's working group on Transport, Construction and Urban Development.[6] In 2007, Schwarzelühr-Sutter was reportedly being groomed by the SPD as a future leader.[7] In the 2009 federal election, she was placed at number 16 on the party list and narrowly missed re-election to the Bundestag[8][9] but was automatically re-elected in 2010 as designated successor following the death of Hermann Scheer.[10]

She was re-elected in the 2013 federal election.[11]

On 17 December 2013 Schwarzelühr-Sutter was appointed de (Parliamentary State Secretary) at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (German: Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit in Merkel's Third Cabinet.[12][13] In this function she represents the minister, Barbara Hendricks, in political and parliamentary affairs, particularly in her designated special areas of climate change mitigation, nuclear reactor safety, conservation, and the environment and health.[lower-alpha 1]

Schwarzelühr-Sutter has led or been a member of German delegations on various topics, including the Small Islands Development Conference for Small Island Developing States (SIDS 2014), the conference of the treaty states of the Biodiversity Convention (UN-CBD COP-12),[15] and negotiations on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.[16][17][18]

Since 2014, Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter has been the chairwoman of the advisory board of the de (German Federal Environmental Foundation) (German: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, BDU),[19][20] chairwoman of the supervisory board of the de (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit) (GRS)[21] and a member of the SME Advisory Council of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW).[22]

Comments on nuclear power stations

In July 2015, following irregularities involving the reactor pressure vessel at the Beznau Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland, near the German border, and near her parliamentary constituency, Schwarzelühr-Sutter demanded the final shutdown of the power plant, which is the oldest still operating nuclear power station in the world, having gone on line in 1964.[23]

In January 2016, in response to an incident at the Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland, near the German border, and near her parliamentary constituency, Schwarzelühr-Sutter criticized the operator's attitudes to safety.[24]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Directorate-General KI, RS, N, and IG of the ministry.[14]

References

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