Birgit Schnieber-Jastram

Birgit Schnieber-Jastram, MEP

Birgit Schnieber-Jastram (born 04 July 1946, Hamburg) is an MEP for Germany from Christian Democratic Union of Germany since July 2009.

Affiliations

• Member, Committee on Development
• Member, Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee
• Substitute, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
• SUbstitute, Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

(A) Occupation(s) during the three-year period before taking up office with the Parliament, and membership during that period of any boards or committees of companies, non-governmental organisations, associations or other bodies established in law:

• Senator and Mayor Hamburg (2001-2008) (income category 4)
• Representative of Hamburg Bürgerschaft (income category 2)

(D) Membership of any boards or committees of any companies, non-governmental organisations, associations or other bodies, or any other relevant outside activity, whether remunerated or unremunerated:

• Member of supervisory board, Leben mit Behinderung e.V. (unremunerated)
• Member of supervisory board, Pflegen und Wohnen HH (unremunerated)

Record of Parliamentary Votes

Election Campaign 2009

Birgit Schnieber-Jastram has not pledged to any of the four issues presented by the Election Campaign:

• to provide leadership in lobbying transparency and ethics,
• to provide leadership in reforming financial architecture,
• to promote a full-scale rethink of the EU trade policy,
• to promote corporate accountability.

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Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• Primary and secondary schooling, higher commercial college (1953-1966). Worked for advertising and PR agencies (1970). Editor (1971-1979). Worked in the constituency office of Volker Rühe, Member of the Bundestag (1983-1994).
• Regional vice-chair, Hamburg CDU (since 1992).
• Member of the Hamburg Regional Assembly (1986-1994); vice-chair of the CDU Regional Assembly Group. Senator for Social Affairs, the Family, Health and Consumer Protection, Hamburg (2001-2008); deputy mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (2004-2008).
• Member of the Bundestag (1994-2001): spokeswoman on social policy for the CDU/CSU members of the Bundestag, parliamentary business manager of the CDU/CSU Group in the Bundestag.
• 'Pflegen und Wohnen' Supervisory Committee, Hamburg; 'Leben mit Behinderung' Supervisory Committee, Hamburg; member of the board of trustees of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (since 2009).

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

15E169

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32(0)2 28 45275

Fax

+32(0)2 28 49275

Email:

birgit.schnieber-jastram AT europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.birgitschnieberjastram.de/

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• Birgit Schnieber-Jastram, Lebenslauf Birgit Schnieber-Jastram, undated, accessed 02 April 2012.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Birgit Schnieber-Jastram, accessed 02 April 2011.