Katarina Barley
| Katarina Barley | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 2013 | |
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| Born |
19 November 1968 Cologne, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality |
 Germany |
| Political party | SPD |
| Alma mater | University of Marburg |
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Katarina Barley (* 19. November 1968 in Cologne) is a German lawyer, politician and member of the 18th German Bundestag. Her English last name comes from her British father.
Education and early career
Barley holds a doctoral degree in law and worked as a lawyer, an assistant to constitutional judge Renate Jaeger, a judge and as an adviser for the Rhineland-Palatinate State Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection before being elected to Parliament in 2013.[1]
Political career
In her parliamentary work, Barley represents the constituency of Trier for Germany's Social Democratic Party.
Barley is a member of the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigning committee chairpersons based on party representation. She is also a member of the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH), the Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the Federal Social Court (BSG). In 2014, she was appointed to serve on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. In addition to her committee assignments, she is a member of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group.
In 2014, Barley served as a member of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union.
Within the SPD parliamentary group, Barley belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[2] In 2015, she was proposed by party chairman Sigmar Gabriel to succeed Yasmin Fahimi in the role of general secretary of the SPD, one of the party's most senior positions.[3]
Other activities
- ZDF, Member of the Television Board (since 2016)
- German Association for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (BVMW), Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2016)
- Institute for European Politics (IEP), Member of the Board of Trustees
- Wilhelm Dröscher Prize, Member of the Board of Trustees
- ver.di, Member
External links
Media related to Katarina Barley at Wikimedia Commons
References
- ↑ Biography on Bundestag website
- ↑ Members Parlamentarische Linke.
- ↑ Gabriels Kandidatin: Katarina Barley soll neue SPD-Generalsekretärin werden, in: spiegel.de (1. November 2015).