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Biggi Bender MdBborn: 1956
land list: Baden-Württemberg

Office in Berlin
T: +49 30 / 227 - 71667
F: +49 30 / 227 - 76667
birgitt.bender@bundestag.de

Spokesperson on health care policy

I was born in the Rhineland (Düsseldorf 1956), but since 1984 I have lived in Stuttgart and I speak almost perfect Swabian. As a lawyer I am used to thinking precisely, listening to arguments and then taking quick decisions.

I gained my political experience during the 1970s in third world solidarity work, the women's movement and the census boycott campaign. In 1988 I was the first chairwoman of a parliamentary group in the Baden-Württemberg legislative assembly, which led to the addition of first names to the chairperson's signature – until then an uncommon practice. For me, welfare policy is about strengthening the resources of people in need of support.

I'm proud of being a football fan and a fan of physical exercise. I've ridden my bike across the Alps, through the Urals and in Tajikistan. I've been through the Sinai desert on foot and by camel, and kickboard regularly through Stuttgart. If I don't move, my politics lose out. And the opposite is also true: while I keep myself on the move as much as I do now, things will keep moving in politics too.

Committees

  • Committee on Health (m.)
  • Committee on Labour and Social Affairs (alt. m.)

Political CV

  • Legal advisor, later policy expert on women's issues, for the Green Party in the provincial legislature of Baden-Württemberg (1984-88)
  • Election to the provincial legislature as member for Stuttgart inner-city constituency (1988)
  • Leader of the Greens in the provincial legislature (1988-89)
  • Deputy leader of the Greens in the provincial legislature (1992-2000)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Women, Family, Further Education and Art (1992-96)
  • Longstanding membership of national party councils, e.g. Länder, women
  • Member of the executive committee of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg (since 1999)
  • Deputy chairperson of the Baden-Württemberg branch of the DPWV (Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband - German Federation of Charitable Organisations) (since 2001)
  • Elected to the 15th Bundestag for the constituency of Stuttgart II (2002)
  • Re-elected for Stuttgart II (2005)