Helga Trüpel

Helga Trüpel
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
1 July 2004
Constituency Germany
Personal details
Born (1958-07-21) 21 July 1958
Moers, Germany
Political party  German:
Alliance '90/The Greens
 EU:
The Greens–European Free Alliance
Alma mater University of Bremen
Website www.helgatrupel.de

Helga Trüpel (born 21 July 1958) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. She is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party.[1]

From 1991 to 1995 Trüpel served as State Minister for Culture and the Integration of Immigrants in the City State of Bremen.[2][3]

Educational background

Helga Trüpel studied German, Religious Studies, and Psychology at the University of Bremen. In 1988 she completed her PhD in German Literature.

Political career

In 1980 Trüpel joined the political party Die Grünen, today called Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. From 1987 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 2004 she was an elected member of the State Parliament of Bremen. In 1991 she joined the state government as State Minister for Culture and the Integration of Immigrants, in the coalition government of the President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Klaus Wedemeier.

In 2004, 2009 and 2014 Trüpel was elected Member of the European Parliament joined the political group The Greens/EFA.[4] Since 2004 she is a vice-president of the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.[5] Between 2004 and 2014 Helga Trüpel worked as the spokesperson for budgetary affairs of her political group.[6] During both her first and second terms she was furthermore elected co-spokesperson of the delegation of German Greens. Helga Trüpel has been a member of the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China.[7]

In September 2017, Trüpel announced that she would not stand in the 2019 European elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ Bündnis90/ Die Grünen
  2. ↑ de:Liste der Bremer Senatoren
  3. ↑ "Helga TRÜPEL - Home - Abgeordnete - Europäisches Parlament". www.europarl.europa.eu.
  4. ↑ "Home". www.greens-efa.eu.
  5. ↑ "Von besonderem Interesse - Home - CULT - Ausschüsse - Europäisches Parlament". www.europarl.europa.eu.
  6. ↑ "Von besonderem Interesse - Home - BUDG - Ausschüsse - Europäisches Parlament". www.europarl.europa.eu.
  7. ↑ "Home - Volksrepublik China - Delegationen - Europäisches Parlament". www.europarl.europa.eu.
  8. ↑ Marcel Leubecher (October 5, 2017), „Ich will aufrütteln - und nichts mehr werden“ Die Welt.
  9. ↑ Jan Zier (October 12, 2017), „Ich will keine Posten mehr“ Die Tageszeitung.
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