Sandra Goldschmidt (born 23 February 1976) is a German trade unionist. Since February 2023, she has been the regional director of the United Services Union (

Ver.di (''Verdi'' (stylized as ''ver.di''; �vɛʁdiː; English: ''United Services Trade Union'') is a German trade union based in Berlin, Germany. It was established on 19 March 2001 as the result of a merger of five individual unions and is a m ...

) in

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. She is deputy chairwoman of the supervisory board of the Hamburg Company for Asset and Investment Management, alternating chairwoman of the administrative board of the Federal Medical Service, and a member of the board of the NDR Broadcasting Council.

Biography

Goldschmidt was born in a small village in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

. After graduating from high school and training as a

photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs. Duties and types of photograp ...

, she worked as an employee in a commercial photography studio . In early 1999, she applied to the internet agency Pixelpark in

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, where she worked as a project manager for communications and

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solutions. In 2002, she moved to the

ver.di (''Verdi'' (stylized as ''ver.di''; �vɛʁdiː; English: ''United Services Trade Union'') is a German trade union based in Berlin, Germany. It was established on 19 March 2001 as the result of a merger of five individual unions and is a m ...

network for media professionals connexx.av in

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, a union interest group that supports employees in radio and television broadcasting and the new media. There, she helped establish a

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at the media group and film distributor Premiere during the crisis surrounding the

Kirch Group KirchGruppe (KirchGroup) was a German media group founded by Leo Kirch in the 1950s. It was the dominant buyer and seller of TV programming rights in Germany. By 2000, it controlled a 52.5 percent stake in what became the country's biggest broa ...

, among other things. At the end of 2005, she became the personal assistant to ver.di chairman

Frank Bsirske Frank Bsirske (born 10 February 1952) is a German trade unionist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2021. From 2001 to 2019, he was the chairman of the United Services Trade Union (ve ...

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. From there, she moved to

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in February 2009 as head of the

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department in the ver.di regional district of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

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. On 28 February 2015, she was elected deputy regional director of ver.di in

, where she was responsible for the areas of women, youth, and the self-employed, as well as for member services and organizational development. Goldschmidt was nominated as a candidate for the new ver.di regional leadership in January 2023, after the then ver.di head, Berthold Bose, announced that he would not run again for health reasons. A regional conference elected Goldschmidt as regional leader on 24 February 2023, with 56 of 82 valid votes. She and her team represent around 87,000 ver.di members in Hamburg. Goldschmidt lives with her husband and three children in and is a member of

Alliance 90/The Greens Alliance 90/The Greens (, ), often simply referred to as Greens (, ), is a Green (politics), green political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of the Greens (formed in West Germany in 1980) and Alliance 90 (formed in East Ger ...

Memberships

* 2013 to 2020 Member of the Supervisory Board of Kundenservice AG * Member of the Supervisory Board of

Hamburger Sparkasse Hamburger Sparkasse AG (Haspa) is one of 5 free public savings banks in Germany based in Hamburg. With a balance sheet total of around 41.9 billion euros and about 5,000 employees, it is the largest savings bank in Germany. It was founded in 182 ...

since 2019 * Since 2021, alternating chairwoman of the Administrative Board of the * Member of the Board of the NDR Broadcasting Council since June 2022 * Member of Alliance 90/The Greens * since 2024 Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of

Literature

* Jörn Breiholz: ''Als die hippe New Economy ihren ersten Betriebsrat gründete''. In: Zeitschrift mitarbeit, Hrsg.: Vorstand der Freunde des Museums der Arbeit, Nr. 25/2021, S. 24–26

External links

Sandra Goldschmidt, Kundgebung: Wann, wenn nicht jetzt...International Solidarisch - Schluss mit Austerität!

ver.di Hamburg Sandra Goldschmidt (PDF)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goldschmidt, Sandra 1976 births Living people German trade unionists Alliance 90/The Greens politicians 21st-century German women German women trade unionists Politicians from Hamburg