Karoline Linnert

Karoline Linnert, born August 30, 1958, in Bielefeld is a German politician (Alliance '90 / The Greens). Since 2007 she has been Mayor and Senator for Finance of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.

Political Career

Linnert joined the Bremen Green Party in 1980. From 1991 until her election as a Senator in 2007, she was a member of the Bremen City Parliament. She was chairman of the parliamentary group Alliance '90 / The Greens from 2000 to 2007, and from 2003 to 2007, chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee. In the election for the Bremen City Parliament in 2007, Linnert stood as top candidate of Alliance '90 / The Greens, in which the party (with 16.4% of the vote) achieved their best result in an election.

After the SPD decided to end the coalition with the CDU in favor of a coalition with the Greens, the SPD and Greens formed a joint coalition. Linnert was elected as Mayor, Senator for Finance and Senate Commissioner for Data Protection in the Bremen Senate (Senate Böhrnsen II), and was re-elected in 2011.

Education

She studied Psychology at the University of Bielefeld and the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Afterwards she worked in Bremen as a research assistant for health and social policy at the parliamentary group of the Greens.

External Links

http://www.bundesrat.de/SharedDocs/personen/DE/laender/hb/linnert-karoline.html

http://www.finanzen.bremen.de/sixcms/detail.php?gsid=bremen53.c.4273.de