Tanja Gönner

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Tanja Gönner
Cabinet Teufel I
Prime Minister	Erwin Teufel
State Minister of the Environment of Baden-Württemberg
Personal details
Born	(1969-06-23) 23 June 1969 (age 52) Sigmaringen, West Germany
Political party	CDU
Alma mater	University of Tübingen
Occupation	Lawer

Tanja Gönner is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

Biography[]

Tanja Gönner was born in Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.^[1] Gönner attended the Liebfrauenschule, a Roman-Catholic school for girls. She did an apprenticeship as a legal clerk in the senior judicial service.^[2] She studied law at the University of Tübingen. After completing the first and second state examination in law, she completed her legal traineeship at the Ravensburg Regional Court. From 1996 to 1999, she worked for a law firm in Bad Saulgau. After she got the permission to work as lawyer, she became a partner in that law firm in 1999 and worked there with a focus on insolvency law until 2004.^[2]

Politics[]

Gönner started her political career in 1986 at the Junge Union, the CDU's youth organisation. She has been a member of the CDU since 1987, and was a member of the federal executive committee from 2000 to 2012. From 2002 to 2004 Gönner was a member of the German Bundestag.

In 2004 she became Minister of Social Affairs for the State of Baden-Württemberg in the government of Erwin Teufel. In 2005 she took over the Ministry of the Environment in Baden-Württemberg in the cabinet of Günther Oettinger, which she headed until early 2010.

In February 2021. the than Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Stefan Mappus (CDU) gave her also the Ministry of Transport of the State of Baden-Württemberg.^[3] From 2011 to 2012, she was member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg.

In July 2012, Gönner became president of the board of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ).^[4] Some media connected Gönners job opportunity with critics about favouritism politics of than minister for development Dirk Niebel. Niebel changed the portion of the board to 40 percent women.^[5]

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