Julia Bartz | |
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Born | Julia Bartz February 7, 1984 |
Nationality | German |
Occupation | Politician |
Political party | CSU |
Spouse | ______ Obermeier |
Julia Obermeier (born Julia Bartz 7 September 1984) is a German politician (CSU). [1] [2] She was a member of the German parliament (Bundestag) from 2013 to 2017, and was a member of the assembly's defence committee. [3] Since 2015 she has also been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. [4]
Julia Bartz was born in Munich. Between 1990 and 1994 she attended junior school at Maitenbeth, then progressing to the secondary school ("Gymnasium") in Gars am Inn ( Mühldorf district) where she remained till passing her school final exams ("Abitur") in 2003. [5] She then, till 2008, studied political sciences, law and sociology at Munich University. [6] At the same time, in 2006/2007 she was employed as assistant to the Director for European Research Policy and Innovation with the Degusa Specialist Chemical Company's office in Brussels. [7] After that she worked as a research assistant in the office of the party general secretary. [3] In 2009 she took a position in the "Planning staff" of the CSU group in the Bavarian Parliament ("Landtag"), becoming its deputy head in 2013. [3]
Julia Bartz joined Bavaria's ruling centre-right Christian Social Union (party / CSU) in 2004. She is also a member of the party's Women's Union and Youth Union. [7] Between 2007 and 2013 she served as a member of the executive with the Youth Union for Upper Bavaria. [7] Between 2009 and 2011, [7] and again since 2013, she has been a member of the Bavarian executive of the Youth Union. Between 2013 and 2015 she headed up the secretariat in the regional executive of the Upper Bavarian Women's Union. [7] Since 2015 she has been chair of the regional executive of the Munich-West Women's Union [7] and of the CSU local group in Munich- Aubing where she has lived since her marriage early during 2015. [1]
Julius Obermeier is a member of the recently relaunched CSU Programme and Policy Commission being headed up by Markus Blume. [8] [9] She is a member of the party executive working group on Foreign and Security policy. [3] She is also involved in the party executive working group in Munich on Migration and Integration. [10]
Engaging in local politics, between 2007 and 2015, as Julia Bartz, she was village president for Maitenbeth, and from 2008 till 2015 a member of the Maitenbeth local council. One regional tier up, in 2014 she became a member of the local assembly for Mühldorf (district). [1]
In the 2013 national Bundestag election the name of Julia Bartz from Mühldorf appeared at place 39 on the CSU list for Bavaria. [11] As at the previous election, the CSU vote share entitled it to 45 seats. Bartz was comfortably elected. She is a member of the Bundestag Defence Committee and an alternate member of the Food and Agriculture Committee. [3] She is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. [4] She is a deputy member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and of the Interparliamentary Conference for Joint Foreign and Security Policy and for Joint Security and Defence Policy. [12]
In 2015 the CDU/CSU Bundestag group conscripted her to the council of the foundation trust for the support of exceptional hardship cases in the Federal Army and former (East German) National People's Army. [13] After heavy losses of the CDU/CSU in the 2017 election, she had to quit the parliament.
Her own web page lists a large number of other memberships and activities, many of a quasi-political character. [14] She has an episcopal mandate to investigate allegations of sexual abuse involving the catholic Military Ordinariate. [15] In 2016 Cardinal Marx, the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, appointed he a member of the General Council of the Bavarian Catholic Academy for the ensuing four year term. [16]
She is also actively involved in other organisations involving welfare and women. [14]
Julia Obermeier comes from a Roman Catholic family. She has been married since January/February 2015. [1]