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Bettina Herlitzius MdBborn: 1960
one child
land list: North Rhin-Westphalia

Office in Berlin
T: +49 30 / 227 - 71012
F: +49 30 / 227 - 76012
bettina.herlitzius@bundestag.de

Spokesperson on urban development

I was born on 8 July 1960 in Bad Salzuflen. Today I live with my partner near Aachen and am the mother of a grown-up son and a proud grandmother. While studying architecture at RWTH Aachen University I became interested in the concept of combined living and working, and even before graduating had founded the Alte Windkunst Planning Group along with friends, with the aim of realising my ideas. And we all still live in this communal living project today!

After six years of working freelance, and on the look-out for new professional challenges, I became an intern at the building authority of the NRW Ministry of Building and Transport. After successfully completing this internship I became a chief officer of the Aachen municipal authorities in the areas of traffic management, housing, structural engineering and road construction. I am currently released from my responsibilities in order to take up my parliamentary seat.

As an ordinary citizen one is unaware of many decisions taken at a political level. This awakened my curiosity and encouraged me to play an active part in politics.

My professional experience is reflected in my political work. My key areas are ecological building, housing and urban planning, transport; personnel development, administrative modernisation and the compatibility of work and family; women's and lesbian politics.

One thing I am particularly passionate about is activating a change of consciousness in Germany: the changeover from the car to the railway and the bicycle!

Committees

  • Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (sp. + m.)
  • Committee on Tourism (alt. m.)

Political CV

  • Member of the Green Party from 1983 to 1985, rejoined in 1998
  • Member of the Green group in the Aachen Council (since 1999)
  • Green member of the Rhineland Regional Council (LVR) and Cologne Regional Council (since 1999)
  • Deputy chairwoman, LVR (since 1999)
  • Spokesperson for the LVR on women's issues (from 1999 to 2004)
  • Financial spokesperson and head of the Financial Working Group (LVR, since 2004)
  • Leader of the Green group in the LVR (since 2005)
  • Chairperson of the Aachen Land and the local Herzogenrath executive committees, initiator of several citizens' initiatives against planned road projects (from 2001 to 2005)
  • Member of the Bundestag (since September 2007)
  • Spokesperson on tourism and housing policy (2008-2009)