Cornelia Ernst
Cornelia Ernst | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 14 July 2009 | |
Constituency | Germany |
Personal details | |
Born | European United Left–Nordic Green Left | 30 November 1956
Website | www |
Cornelia Ernst (born 30 November 1956) is a German politician and
She was
Life and work
After graduating from secondary school in 1974 and her entry into the SED she finished her degree/diploma in education science in 1979. Ernst got her PhD in 1983 at Leipzig University with the thesis on "Zur Geschichte des Internationalen Frauentages in der Übergangsperiode vom Kapitalismus zum Sozialismus auf dem Gebiet der DDR (1945/46 - 1961)" (English: The history of the International Women's Day in the transition period from capitalism to socialism on the territory of the GDR (1945/46 - 1961) and was a teachers trainer at the departement for teachers training in Großenhain.
Political career
From 1991 until 1999 Ernst had been a parliamentary advisor for the state parliamentary group of the PDS in Saxony and substitute chairman of the PDS in Saxony.
She became a Member of the Parliament of Saxony in 1998. In November 2001 Ernst got elected as chairman, as successor of Peter Porsch. After the merger of WASG and PDS forming the party DIE LINKE she got elected as chairman of the state association of DIE LINKE in Saxony. In state parliament she was a member of the committee for Home Affairs and a member of the committee for Constitutional, Legal and European Affairs. As local politician she also was a member of the City Council in Dresden.
Since 2009 Ernst is a Member of European Parliament. In her first term she was on the board of the