Elisabeth Scharfenberg is a German politician of the
Alliance 90/The Greens
Alliance 90/The Greens (german: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, ), often simply referred to as the Greens ( ), is a green political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens (formed in West Germany in 1980) and Alliance 90 (for ...
Party. From 2005 to 2017, she was member of the Federal parliament, the
Bundestag
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. A Graduate social pedagogue, her political work focussed on
care and ageing policy.
Biography
Scharfenberg was born in 14 March 1963 in
Rüsselsheim,
Hesse
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. There, she got her
Abitur
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in 1982 at the Gustav-Heinemann-Schule. In Berlin, she then studied Social work/social pedagogy.
From 1997, she worked as a freelance professional carer after previously working in the field of adult education.
Scharfenberg joined the Green Party in 1999. After some time in the Upper Franconian District Assembly, she joined the Bundestag in 2005 by being elected through her
State List
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in the
2005 German Federal Election
Federal elections were held in Germany on 18 September 2005 to elect the members of the 16th Bundestag. The snap election was called after the government's defeat in a state election, which caused them to intentionally lose a motion of confid ...
. She was re-elected in
2009
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and
2013
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but announced that she did not seek further re-election in 2016.
During her time in the parliament she was a member of the Health Committee and a substitute member of the Committee for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. Furthermore, she was the spokeswoman for elderly care policy of the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
She is a member of the ,
Internationaler Bund
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,
Bund Naturschutz and ''Kind & Kegel e.V. - Kultur für alle Generationen'' ().
Private life
Scharfenberg is married and has four daughters.
Sources and further reading
Further reading and publications
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External links
Scharfenberg's online blog
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1963 births
Living people
Alliance 90/The Greens politicians