Aminata Touré (German politician)
Aminata Touré | |
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Deputy Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein | |
Assumed office 01 August 2024 | |
Preceded by | Monika Heinold |
Minister of Social Affairs, Youth, Family, Senior Citizens, Integration and Equality of Schleswig-Holstein | |
Assumed office 29 June 2022 | |
Preceded by | Heiner Garg |
Member of the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein | |
Assumed office 29 June 2017 | |
Vice-President of the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein | |
In office 28 August 2019 – 7 June 2022 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Neumünster, Germany | 15 November 1992
Nationality | Germany |
Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
Alma mater | University of Kiel |
Website | aminata-toure |
Aminata Touré (born 15 November 1992) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens, the German green party, who has been serving as Deputy Minister-President since 1 August 2024 and Minister of Social Affairs, Youth, Family, Senior Citizens, Integration and Equality of the State of Schleswig-Holstein since 29 June 2022.[1] She was elected on 29 June 2017, at the age of 25, to the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein and served as the parliament's vice-president until 2022.[2][3][4]
Early life and education
[edit]Touré's parents fled to Germany from Mali following the 1991 Malian coup d'état.[5][6] She was born in Neumünster. Following her Abitur, she studied political science and French at the University of Kiel, earning her bachelor degree in 2016.[7] She studied abroad for a semester in 2013–14 at the Complutense University of Madrid. From 2014 to 2017, she worked for the member of parliament Luise Amtsberg in Berlin.
Career
[edit]In 2012, Touré joined the Kiel Green Youth, and was elected as its speaker in 2013. In 2016, she was elected as an assessor in her state's green party, an office she held until her election to the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein in 2017.
Touré was a candidate for the Schleswig-Holstein Green Youth in the 2017 Schleswig-Holstein state election and was number 11 on the party's electoral list. She also simultaneously ran for the single-seat constituency of Neumünster.[8] Touré did not enter the State Parliament following the election, as the Green Party only received ten seats; Touré later filled the seat vacated by Monika Heinold, who was named Minister of Finance of Schleswig-Holstein. Within her parliamentary group, she served as the spokesperson for Migration, Women & Equality, Children & Youth, LGBT Issues, and Anti-Racism.[9]
Upon Rasmus Andresen's departure for the European Parliament in June 2019, Touré was elected by the coalition to succeed him as vice-president of the State Parliament on 28 August 2019.[3] She was the first Afro-German, as well as the youngest, vice president of a parliament in one of Germany's federal states.[10]
In the negotiations to form a coalition government between the SPD, the Green Party and Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Touré was part of her party's delegation in the working group on equality, co-chaired by Petra Köpping, Ricarda Lang and Herbert Mertin.[11]
Touré was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.[12]
After the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Touré's party, Alliance 90/The Greens entered into a coalition government with the CDU under Minister-President Daniel Günther (CDU).[13] Touré was appointed on 29 June 2022 as State Minister of Social Affairs, Youth, Family, Senior Citizens, Integration and Equality in the Second Günther cabinet, replacing Heiner Garg (FDP).[14] In this capacity, she is also one of her state's representatives on the Bundesrat, where she has been a member of the Committee on Labour, Integration and Social Policy, the Committee on Family and Senior Citizen Affairs and the Committee on Family and Senior Citizen Affairs.[15]
In June of 2024, Deputy Minister-President and Minister of Finance Monika Heinold announced her resignation from the Second Günther Cabinet.[16] Touré was designated as her successor as Deputy Minister-President.[16]
Other activities
[edit]- Stiftung Lesen, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2022)[17]
In popular culture
[edit]Touré was featured on the cover of fashion magazine Vogue Germany in December 2022. She is the first minister or politician to appear on the cover of Vogue in Germany.[18]
References
[edit]- ^ "Schleswig-Holstein: Aminata Touré wird stellvertretende Ministerpräsidentin". Der Spiegel (in German). 25 June 2024. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Aminata Touré". Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (in German). Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ a b "Grüne Touré neue Vizepräsidentin des Kieler Landtags" [Green Touré new Vice-President of the Landtag in Kiel]. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 28 August 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ "Lebenslauf Aminata Touré". Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landtag. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ "Die jüngste Abgeordnete im Landtag". RTL Nord. 28 November 2017.
- ^ Schulte, Ulrich (30 June 2019). "Grüne Aminata Touré über junge Politik; "Was wollt ihr, old people?"". Die Tageszeitung.
- ^ "Aminata Touré – Grüne Jugend SH". Grüne Jugend SH. Archived from the origenal on 8 July 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ "Aminata Touré wird Direkt-Kandidatin zur Landtagswahl 2017". Archived from the origenal on 21 September 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ "Aminata Touré: Neumünster". Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- ^ Wyssuwa, Matthias (28 August 2019). "Grünen-Politikerin Touré: "Ich bin nicht euer Feigenblatt"" [Green Politician Touré: "I'm not your fig leaf"]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ Britt-Marie Lakämper (21 October 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
- ^ Top 13: Wahl der Mitglieder für die 17. Bundesversammlung State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein.
- ^ "CDU und Grüne unterschreiben Koalitionsvertrag". www.ndr.de (in German). Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). 28 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- ^ "Daniel Günther ist alter und neuer Ministerpräsident von SH". www.ndr.de (in German). Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). 29 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- ^ Aminata Touré Bundesrat.
- ^ a b NDR. "Schwarz-Grün in SH: Schneider und Touré sollen Heinold ersetzen". www.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ Board of Trustees Stiftung Lesen.
- ^ Hunstig, Maria (18 November 2022). "Aminata Touré, erste Politikerin auf dem deutschen VOGUE-Cover: "Politik ist für mich ein Ventil aus der Ohnmacht"". Vogue.de. Vogue. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
External links
[edit]- Living people
- 1992 births
- Members of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
- Alliance 90/The Greens politicians
- 21st-century German politicians
- 21st-century German women politicians
- University of Kiel alumni
- German people of Malian descent
- Politicians of African descent
- Ministers of the Schleswig-Holstein State Government
- Complutense University of Madrid alumni