Gabriela Heinrich Explained

Gabriela Heinrich
Office:Member of the Bundestag
Term Start:2013
Birth Date:1963 4, df=yes
Birth Place:Berlin, West Germany
Party:SPD
Nationality:German

Gabriela Heinrich (born 18 April 1963) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2013.[1]

Political career

Heinrich first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election.[2] In parliament, she has served on the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid (2014-2019) and the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development (2014-2018).[3]

In addition to her role in parliament, Heinrich has been serving as member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2014. On the Assembly, she has been a member of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 2014) and the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (2015-2018).[4] Since 2019, she has also been part of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.[5] Since 2022, she has been chairing the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Within her parliamentary group, Heinrich has been serving as one of seven deputies of chairman Rolf Mützenich since 2019.[6] She belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement within the group.[7]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Heinrich was part of her party's delegation in the working group on foreign policy, defence, development cooperation and human rights, co-chaired by Heiko Maas, Omid Nouripour and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff.[8]

Other activities

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gabriela Heinrich Abgeordnetenwatch. www.abgeordnetenwatch.de. de. 2020-03-19.
  2. Web site: Gabriela Heinrich, MdB. 2013-09-23. SPD-Bundestagsfraktion. de. 2020-03-19.
  3. Web site: German Bundestag - Main Committee. German Bundestag. en. 2020-03-19. 27 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201127081952/https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/main. dead.
  4. https://pace.coe.int/en/members/7229?lang=EN Gabriela Heinrich
  5. https://www.spdfraktion.de/abgeordnete/heinrich Gabriela Heinrich
  6. https://www.spdfraktion.de/abgeordnete/heinrich Gabriela Heinrich
  7. https://www.parlamentarische-linke.de/unsere-mitglieder/ Members
  8. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ampel-koalition-das-sind-die-verhandlungsteams-von-spd.1939.de.html Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP
  9. https://www.dsw.org/parlamentarischer-beirat/ Advisory Board