Draft:Priska Hinz
Priska Hinz is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. She was a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2014, by winning a seat in the 16th, 17th and 18th Federal election. She didn't complete her third "term" as she resigned in 2014 and was replaced by Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn.
Life
[edit]Hinz was born on 10 March 1959 in Diez, Rhineland-Palatinate. After graduating from secondary school (Realschule) in 1974, she went to a college for social pedagogy in Limburg an der Lahn, from where she graduated as an educator in 1977. She then worked as a educator in a children's home and was Head of a day care centre.
She joined the Green Party in 1980 and was a member of the party's executive board in Hesse from 1993 to 1995.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hinz had seats in the city Parliaments of Friedrichsdorf and Maintal, aswell as the regional district government of the Lahn-Dill district. In Maintal, she was the city treasurer from 1989 to 1994 and head of social affairs.
For multiple times (from 1985 to 1989, 1995 to 1998 and April 1999 to 2005), she was a member of the Hessian state parliament. During that time she was deputy parliamentary group leader from 1985 to 1987, 1995 to 1998 and 2003 to 2005 and first parliamentary group leader from 1999 to 2000.
From 1994 to 1995, she was member of the Bundesrat, a representative of the state of Hesse to the federal government. From 1998 to 1999, Hinz was the Minister for the Environment, Energy, Youth, Family and Health in Hesse.
Hinz was elected into the Bundestag in 2005, 2009 and 2013 but resigned in 2014. Her seat (going until 2017) was then taken by Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn.
After that, she worked as the Environment Minister of Hesse from 2014 to 2022, as part of the First Rhein cabinet, the Second Bouffier cabinet, and the Third Bouffier cabinet. After eight years in that office, she announced that she did not seek re-election.[1]
Personal Life
[edit]Hinz is married and has two sons.
https://www.bundesrat.de/SharedDocs/personen/DE/laender-ausgeschieden-mediathek/he/hinz-priska.html
https://landwirtschaft.hessen.de/Themen-A-Z/MinisterinMinister
https://www.priskahinz.de/ueber-mich/
- ^ "Die Herborner Grünen-Politikerin Priska Hinz hört auf". Mittelhessen (in German). 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2024-09-22.