Monika Hohlmeier

Monika Hohlmeier
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
2009
Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs
In office
1998 – 2005
Personal details
Born (1962-07-02) 2 July 1962
Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
(now Germany)
Nationality German
Political party  German:
Christian Social Union
 EU:
European People's Party

Monika Hohlmeier (née Strauß, born 2 July 1962) is a German politician (Christian Social Union), and a member of the European Parliament since 2009. Between 1998 and 2005 she served as Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs.

Early life and education

Born in Munich, Bavaria, Hohlmeier is the daughter of former German politician Franz Josef Strauß. She completed a training as a hotel manager.

Political career

Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs, 1998–2005

Between 1998 and 2005, Hohlmeier served as Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs in the government of Minister-President Edmund Stoiber. In 2005, she decided to step down from her office, amid accusations she allowed party votes to be falsified and got jobs for friends; she was replaced by Siegfried Schneider. Already in 2014, Hohlmeier had resigned as head of the Munich branch of the Christian Social Union after she reportedly threatened critics within the party with unspecified revelations about their personal lives.

Hohlmeier was a CSU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in May 2004.

Member of the European Parliament, 2009–present

Hohlmeier has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections. She has since been serving on the Committee on Budgets and the parliament’s delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a member of the Special Committee on Organized Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering. In 2014, she also joined the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

On the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Hohlmeier is the EPP group's spokesperson.[1] In 2012, she also served as rapporteur on the Directive on Attacks against Information Systems.[2]

On the Budget Committee, Hohlmeier serves as the European Parliament’s buildings rapporteur. In 2011, she drafted the relevant reports for a Budget Committee decision on a controversial €38 million purchase of three buildings – one in Strasbourg and two in Brussels – so as to increase office space for MEPs and their staff in the light of the 2013 enlargement of the European Union.[3] On the recommendation of Hohlmeier, the committee in 2013 approved signing a 12-year lease on a German-owned 40,000 square meters office building at Brussels’ Square de Meeûs.[4] Along with Socialist MEP Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Hohlmeier also serves as the parliament’s rapporteur on the 2015 budget.

In early 2014, the CSU chose Hohlmeier to be the party list’s number 3 for the 2014 European elections, following Markus Ferber and Angelika Niebler.[5]

Since 2014, Hohlmeier has been a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries.[6]

Other activities

References

  1. ↑ Julie Levy-Abegnoli (February 12, 2015), Rapporteur won't let PNR become 'a political football' The Parliament Magazine.
  2. ↑ Kevin Rawlinson (March 28, 2012), Hackers to face two years in jail under new rules proposed by EU The Independent.
  3. ↑ Constant Brand (December 14, 2011), Budgets committee approves €38m purchase of buildings European Voice.
  4. ↑ Toby Vogel (July 24, 2013), Parliament to occupy Square de Meeûs site European Voice.
  5. ↑ Dave Keating (January 27, 2014), German parties select European Parliament candidates European Voice.
  6. ↑ Member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries European Parliament.
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