For half a year, Katarina Barley, Federal Minister of justice. Now, the woman with the two passports to Brussels – as SPD top candidate for the European elections. A Portrait of Sabine Kinkartz.
You can describe a human being in several ways. On his formal resume. Katarina Barley was at 19. November 1968 in Cologne as the daughter of a German and a British, worked as an editor at Deutsche Welle, was born. She studied law in Marburg, Paris and Münster. With a PhD, a lawyer, worked as a lawyer in Hamburg and as a research assistant at the Federal constitutional court. She was a judge at the district court of Trier and the district court of Wittlich.
In Parallel, married Katarina Barley, and had two children. In 2008, she was a consultant in the Ministry of justice in Mainz, Germany. There she worked until they moved in 2013 as a Deputy for the SPD in the Bundestag. In 2015, she became the General Secretary of your party, in June 2017, she took over the Federal Ministry for family Affairs, Manuela Schwesig, who became Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
So popular, that it is enough for a fan club
After the election, the Ministry of labour was added in addition, the Barley took over the business leader to replace her party colleague Andrea Nahles, who moved to the SPD-fraction top. With the re-the government coalition of the CDU and the SPD in March of this year, the 49-year-old was appointed as the inaugural Federal Minister of justice.
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Who would like to know more about Katarina Barley, whom the human being behind the politician, the views of the short messages is recommended service Twitter. Under the Hashtag #still loving Katarina with her Fans and admirers wrote there in the spring for a week, the sore fingers, because they wanted to make sure that your Idol makes a further political career.
Personable and popular – this is rare
That she’s happy about it, it Barley makes no secret of the fact. It is considered to be unobstructed and of course, as a clever, open and sociable. One could not do otherwise, than to find you likeable, they say. With her Art, she has also reached the heart of the SPD, in which it is moderate on the left.
For the post of SPD Secretary-General, that was not enough. To little attack, lack of assertiveness, so the criticism became louder and louder as the Bundestag election campaign of SPD Chancellor candidate, Martin Schulz, in the spring of 2017 came after a first Stalled was. In fact, Barley is not a woman of the loud sounds. But it is binding and insistent.
Clear edge, you can
The Federal Minister of justice, it is not difficult to take a position. She is not afraid of any confrontations. With Facebook, you argued about more transparency in the social network. In the Grand coalition, she stood against the CSU coined the concept of asylum tourism, as well as against the Union so vehemently defended the ban on advertising for abortion.
Persistently she made sure that the Victims of the VW can make a diesel scandal before the end of the corresponding periods of the pattern declaratory use. The law from their Ministry, it was decided, despite some concerns in the Union in a timely manner.
Barley (fifth from left) in the number of your Ministerial colleagues
In your time as a family Minister you made in #MeToo-the debate is not only a “culture of silence” also in the German film business and called for “thorough investigation” in the case of the film Director, Dieter Wedel, but also criticized sexism in the political life.
Versatile
Katarina Barley has never made a secret of the fact that it is for a lot of tasks open. She was the “universal gun” of the SPD, she said, when it came to the occupation of Ministerial posts in the Grand coalition. You could stay a family Minister, or the Minister of labour, or would be, of course, also as a foreign Minister. This was applied in the eyes of many a little too thick, even if the speaker of the Minister hastened to speak of an ironic and witty remark in the context of a political ash Wednesday.
In fact, Katarina Barley has always been tempted by the theme as broadly as possible. On their website points can be found under “status”, the themes of social, family, pension, health, demography, Europe, energy and transport. Europe has done it to Barley certainly also because of their family background. Although she has never lived in England, understands you both as a German as well as British, first and foremost, but as a European. Not without reason, they held their first Bundestag speech in 2013 on the topic of “Europe”.
“Barley” “barley”
Barley lives in Trier and always stressed the great advantages of an open Europe for peace and prosperity. “Here, you can drive in a day by Bicycle through four countries,” she said recently in a Europe dialogue with citizens in Trier with views to the bordering countries of Luxembourg, France and Belgium.
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Both of your state would not belong to acts of the only to your life but also your basic settings characterised, she writes in “migration stories from the Bundestag”, a collection of essays, published by the former green Deputy Özcan Mutlu. In it we learn also, that most Germans pronounce the surname is “Barley”, which translates as “barley”, false, (the “ey” as in “egg”).
First she wanted to go to Europe
For a long time it seemed as if Martin Schulz would be the top candidate in the European elections of 2014, and long-standing President of the European Parliament in the coming year, go for the SPD again in the race. Especially since Katarina Barley initially had no interest in continuing to accept the candidacy. But the 62-year-old Schulz and the SPD-a top party leader Andrea Nahles wanted to and then managed, however, to convince Barley.
She was “a very good choice,” Schulz now. A convinced European, “to lead a fight for a Europe of humanity, justice and solidarity”. Unlike Schulz in the last European elections Katarina Barley, but only national top candidate of the SPD. The leading candidate of the European socialists, and thus also a candidate for the office of President of the Commission will be the also Nahles supported the Dutch Frans Timmermans.