1. Erika Steinbach is a German right-wing politician.
32 Facts About Erika Steinbach
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Erika Steinbach previously served as a member of the Bundestag from 1990 until 2017.
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Erika Steinbach did not stand in the September 2017 federal election, therefore leaving the Bundestag.
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In 2018 Erika Steinbach became President of the Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung, a political foundation affiliated with the AfD.
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Erika Steinbach studied music and was a member of concert orchestras before becoming a politician.
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Erika Steinbach's father, Wilhelm Karl Hermann, was born in Hanau, but his family had their origins in Lower Silesia.
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Steinbach's mother, Erika Hermann, was ordered to work in the town after the annexation as a Luftwaffenhelfer.
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In 1948 the family moved to Berlin, where Erika Steinbach's grandfather had become mayor of one of the districts.
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In 1950, the family moved to Hanau, Hesse where Erika Steinbach finished her education and started studying the violin.
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Erika Steinbach graduated from a school of civil administration and moved to Frankfurt, where she started working for a Communal Evaluation Office.
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Erika Steinbach was elected a member of the Bundestag in 1990, for the constituency of Frankfurt am Main III representing that until 1998.
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Erika Steinbach is a deputy member of the parliamentary Committee for the Interior.
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Erika Steinbach has distanced herself from the Prussian Trust, that aggressively seeks restitution of German properties in Poland.
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Erika Steinbach represents the Federation of Expellees on the board of the national broadcasting company ZDF.
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Erika Steinbach is the founder, along with Peter Glotz, of the foundation Centre Against Expulsions, which is working to establish a museum for the victims of "Flight, displacements, forced resettlements and deportations all over the world in the past century", a project of the German federal government on initiative and with participation of the Federation of Expellees.
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However, Erika Steinbach is supported by her own party and the CSU, both of which have called upon Westerwelle to give up his resistance, and have cited earlier statements by Westerwelle where he had praised Erika Steinbach a few years ago.
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Erika Steinbach was an expert speaker at the International Cuba Conference of the International Society for Human Rights in 2006.
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Erika Steinbach was a member of the CDU national board from 2000 to September 2010, when she chose to resign from the position following a controversy over comments about the German invasion of Poland.
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Erika Steinbach left the CDU in January 2017, stating that Chancellor Angela Merkel's decisions during the European migrant crisis, which she called a violation of the German law, prompted her decision.
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Erika Steinbach did not run in the 2017 federal election.
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In 2018 Erika Steinbach became President of the Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung, a political foundation affiliated with the AfD.
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Erika Steinbach was member of the Goethe-Institut from 1994 to 2002.
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Erika Steinbach was considered conservative within the CDU in most fields of policy, belonging to the initiators of the Berliner Kreis in der Union.
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Erika Steinbach's work as a member of parliament focuses on human rights, and she is a strong critic of human rights violations in communist countries around the world.
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Erika Steinbach is a strong supporter of the process of European integration.
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Erika Steinbach endorses the Charter of the German expellees of August 1950.
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Erika Steinbach holds conservative views on social policy and opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, which sometimes has caused controversy.
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Since the onset of the European migrant crisis, Erika Steinbach has been one of the most vocal critics of Chancellor Merkel's refugee policies.
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Erika Steinbach is much more widely known in Poland and the Czech Republic than in Germany.
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On 16 September 2010, Erika Steinbach attested Bartoszewski "a bad character" on German TV.
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The fact that Erika Steinbach represents a person born to a German officer stationed in occupied Poland has been described as one of the essential issues for Poles.
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In May 2008 Erika Steinbach started a series of lectures about the "German settlement in Eastern Central Europe" at the University of Potsdam.