Sybille Benning
| Sybille Benning | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Ruprecht Polenz |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 January 1961 Münster, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Political party | CDU |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Landscape designer |
Sybille Benning (born 8 January 1961) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). In the 2013 federal election she was elected to the German Bundestag.
Early life and career
Benning was born in Münster, where she graduuated from the Marienschule episcopal high school, Benning completed an apprenticeship in gardening and landscaping and then studied landscape conservation at the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Science. Afterwards she graduated as a geographer (landscape ecology) from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
Benning works freelance as a landscape designer.[1]
Political career
Benning became a member of the CDU in 2001. She has been active in local politics since 2002 and was a directly elected member of the city council of Münster from 2004 to 2013. From 2004 to 2012 she was Deputy Chair of the CDU faction in the Münster Council, from 2008 to 2013 planning spokeswoman for the CDU Council faction.[1]
In the 2013, Benning ran for the direct mandate in the constituency of Münster, which she won with 38.8% of the first votes. In the Bundestag, she is a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment and a deputy member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety. On the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment, she serves as her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on STEM education and the Deutschlandstipendium scholarship scheme. She is also a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development and a deputy member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE),[1] where she serves on the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development as well as on the Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society.
In addition to her committee assignments, Benning is a member of the German-French Parliamentary Friendship Group. Sh is also a member of the non-partisan Europa-Union Deutschland, which is committed to a federal Europe and the European unification process.[2]
Within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Benning belongs to the Münsterland Circle (Münsterlandrunde) which brings together all parliamentarians from the eponymous region in Westphalia; it also includes Anja Karliczek and Jens Spahn, among others.
Other activities
- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Member of the Board of Trustees[3]
- Münster Zoo, Substitute Member of the Supervisory Board
- German Life Saving Association (DLRG), Member
Political positions
In June 2017, Benning voted against her parliamentary group’s majority and in favor of Germany’s introduction of same-sex marriage.[4]
Personal life
Benning is married and has two daughters and two sons. From 1990 until 1993, the family lived in Paris. In 2008, she survived cancer.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 Sybille Benning, CDU/CSU, Bundestag.de
- ↑ Sybille Benning, Europa-Union Deutschland, retrieved 11 January 2018
- ↑ Board of Trustees Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine.
- ↑ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
- ↑ Dirk Anger (November 13, 2012), Sybille Benning macht sich auf den Weg: CDU hat erstmals Bundestagskandidatin Westfälische Nachrichten.
- ↑ Klaus Baumeister (September 15, 2017), Bundestagskandidaten und ihr Lieblingsfoto: Sybille Benning liebt die Imkerei Westfälische Nachrichten.