Claudia Winterstein served as Member of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party from 2002 to 2013, and was her party's Parliamentary Secretary between 2005 and 2009.
19 Facts About Claudia Winterstein
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Claudia Winterstein served multiple terms on the Hannover city council, and worked as a certified economy correspondent, a lecturer, a research assistant, and a property management executive.
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Claudia Winterstein achieved the Abitur at the humanistic Gymnasium Steglitz in Berlin-Steglitz.
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Claudia Winterstein trained to be a certified economy correspondent for English and Spanish.
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Claudia Winterstein instead studied pedagogy at the Padagogische Hochschule Berlin, graduating with the Diplom.
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Claudia Winterstein worked from 1972 as correspondent for the foreign department of a wholesaler, moving the following year to a position as research assistant of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur die Vereinten Nationen.
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Claudia Winterstein then became its CEO for the Berlin region from 1976 to 1979.
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Claudia Winterstein lectured from 1977 to 1979 at the PH Berlin at the chair of Bildungsplanung.
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From 1980, Winterstein worked in her husband's architecture firm in Hannover, as the executive of the property management department.
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Claudia Winterstein earned a doctorate from the Freie Universitat Berlin in 1984, with a dissertation entitled "Migrantenintegration qua Bildungsplanung", about planning an education system to integrate Turkish children in West Berlin, in theory and practice.
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Claudia Winterstein was a member of the state board there from 1994, and became president of the party district Hannover-Stadt in 1996, and of the Hildesheim region in 2006.
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Claudia Winterstein was a member of the Hannover city council from 1991 to 1996, and again from 2001 to 2002, serving as deputy president of her party from 1995 to 1996, and as president from 2001 to 2002.
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Claudia Winterstein was a member of the federal parliament, Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages, from 2002 to 2013, where she served as party speaker for film politics, and as president of the workgroup for budget.
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Claudia Winterstein was a member of the budget committee and Obfrau in the committee for Rechnungsprufung.
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Claudia Winterstein was a deputy member on the committee of culture and media.
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On 26 October 2009, Claudia Winterstein was elected as her party's Parlamentarische Geschaftsfuhrerin.
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Claudia Winterstein did not pursue a candidacy for the following election.
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Claudia Winterstein has worked in a freelance capacity in the field of politics advisory, for companies such as CargoBeamer from 2014 and Global Bridges from 2018.
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Claudia Winterstein married in 1979; the couple has a son, born in 1985.