Birgit Honé
Birgit Honé | |
|---|---|
 Honé in 2018 | |
| Minister of Federal and European Affairs and Regional Development | |
| Assumed office 22 November 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Wolfgang Senff |
| Member of the European Committee of the Regions | |
| Assumed office 15 November 2013 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 November 1960 Bad Schwartau, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence(s) | Sehnde |
Birgit Honé (born 8 November 1960) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who is serving as Minister of Federal and European Affairs and Regional Development in the state government of Minister-President Stephan Weil of Lower Saxony.[1] Since 2017 she has been a member of the German Bundesrat.[2]
Career in the public sector[]
From 1999 to 2002, Honé worked at the State Chancellery. Appointed by Minister-President Sigmar Gabriel, she later served as district president of Lüneburg from 2002 until 2004.
From 2004 to 2013, Honé served as a member of the Senate of the Lower Saxony State Audit Office.[3] In this capacity, she was responsible for auditing the annual budgets of the State Ministry of the Interior (2004–2013), the State Ministry of the Environment (2004–2010), the State Ministry of Agriculture (2004–2010) and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (2004–2013).
Political career[]
Ahead of the 2013 state elections, Stephan Weil included Honé in his shadow cabinet for the Social Democrats’ campaign to unseat incumbent Minister President David McAllister.[4]
As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat since 2017, Honé is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on European Affairs. She is also a member of the German-French Friendship Group set up by the German Bundesrat and the French Senate.
Honé is also a member of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR).
Honé was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.[5]
Other activities[]
- (EVZ), Deputy Member of the Board of Trustees[6]
References[]
- ^ "Ministerin Birgit Honé". Niedersachsen (in German). Retrieved 22 October 2021.
- ^ "Birgit Honé". Bundesrat (in German). Retrieved 22 October 2021.
- ^ Honé wird Schatten-Ministerin bei Weil Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, October 7, 2012.
- ^ Honé wird Schatten-Ministerin bei Weil Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, October 7, 2012.
- ^ Drucksache 18/10450: Niedersächsische Mitglieder der 17. Bundesversammlung am 13. Februar 2022 State Parliament of Lower Saxony.
- ^ Board of Trustees Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future".
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