Johanna Uekermann
Johanna Uekermann | |
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Young Socialists | |
| In office 6 December 2013 – November 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Sascha Vogt |
| Succeeded by | Kevin Kühnert |
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| Born | 18 September 1987 SPD |
Johanna Uekermann (born 18 September 1987) is a German politician of the
Early life
Uekermann was born in 1987 in the Bavarian city of Straubing. She is the daughter of two social-democratic teachers and grew up near Mitterfels.[1]
Political career
Uekermann joined Jusos when she was 14 years old.[2] In 2009, she was elected as vice-chairwoman of the Bavarian Jusos, and in 2011 as vice-chairwoman of the German Jusos. In 2013, she ran for the Bundestag elections and reached 17.6 percent of the vote in the electoral district of Straubing against the CSU candidate Alois Rainer.[3] At the German congress of the Jusos on 6 December 2013 in Nuremberg, she was elected as chairwoman of the German Jusos with 207 of 296 votes. In the local elections on 16 March 2014, she was elected into the district council of Straubing-Bogen. In 2015, she was re-elected as chairwoman of the Jusos for two more years with 72.3 percent of the vote.[4]
From 2017 until 2021, Uekermann served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD in Bavaria, under the leadership of Natascha Kohnen.[5] In 2018 she was a candidate for a seat in the Landtag of Bavaria.
Together with Niels Annen, Martin Dulig, Oliver Kaczmarek, Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller and Anke Rehlinger, Uekermann co-chaired the SPD’s 2019 national convention in Berlin, during which the party elected Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans as its new leaders.[6]
Other activities
- Friends of the Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem (WBC), Member
- German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member
References
- ^ Rundschau, Frankfurter. "Da muss die Große Koalition nacharbeiten". Frankfurter Rundschau. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- ^ Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg. "SPD-Nachwuchs: Jusos wählen Johanna Uekermann zur Vorsitzenden - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Politik". SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "So groß die Koalition auch sein mag, ihre Konzepte sind zu klein". stern.de (in German). 7 December 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- ^ "Jusos tagen in Bremen: Gabriel geht ins Weserstadion - WELT". DIE WELT. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- ^ Johanna Uekermann will nicht mehr als SPD-Vize kandidieren Süddeutsche Zeitung, 4 February 2021.
- ^ Protokoll des ordentlichen Bundesparteitages in Berlin, 2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
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