Katja Husen

Katja Husen
Husen in 2006
Member of the Hamburg Parliament
In office
17 March 2004 – 12 March 2008
Personal details
Born(1976-06-12)12 June 1976
Istanbul, Turkey
Died28 June 2022(2022-06-28) (aged 46)
Bayrischzell, Bavaria, Germany
NationalityGerman
Political partyAlliance 90/The Greens
Children1
Education
OccupationBiologist

Katja Husen (12 June 1976 – 28 June 2022) was a German biologist and politician. A member of Alliance 90/The Greens, she was speaker of the party's youth organisation, Green Youth, and served in the Hamburg Parliament from 2004 to 2008. She was CEO of the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg.

Early life and education

Husen was born in Istanbul, Turkey, on 12 June 1976, where she mostly lived until age six because of her father's job.[1] She attended schools in Kiel,[2] including one exchange year in Portland, Oregon.[3] After she graduated with an Abitur in 1995,[4] she studied biology at the Technische Universität Braunschweig and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, graduating with a Diplom in 2001.[2]

Political career

In 1997, Husen joined the Alliance 90/The Greens (GAL) party.[2][3] She was speaker of the party's youth organisation, Green Youth, from 1998 to 2000.[1][2][5] She acted as a member of the party board of the Green Party in Hamburg between 2001 and 2002.[4] Elected to the federal party board in 2002,[6] she served as its speaker in matters of women (frauenpolitische Sprecherin) until 2006.[7][2] In 2004 she was re-elected as a member of the federal party board over Anja Hajduk, the then provincial chair of the Hamburg branch of the Green Party and member of the Bundestag (German Parliament).[3]

She served in the Hamburg Parliament from 2004 to 2008.[2][8] She was speaker for health politics of the GAL fraction, and a member of the budget committee, the health committee and the committee of consumer protection, and a substitute member of the science committee. She represented her parliamentary group in sub-committees for information and communication technology and administrative modernisation as well as for public service and human resources.[2] She was not elected for the following term.[9] In 2013 she was a candidate for the Bundestag representing Hamburg Wandsbek, but was not elected.[9] In May 2019, when a new black-green coalition [de] took office in the borough diet of Eimsbüttel, it was suggested that she be elected as the borough's municipal councillor (Bezirksamtsleiter [de]) in replacement for a politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).[10] She collected only 25 votes, one short of the necessary 26 votes.[5][11]

Professional career

She became CEO of the medical centre's Centre for Molecular Neurobiology of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in 2009.[7][12] and from 2012 she was also the CEO of the centre for dental health (Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde).[8]

Personal life

Husen suffered head injuries from a fall off her bicycle in Bayrischzell, Bavaria, on 26 June 2022, while participating with her partner[13] in the 29th Rosenheimer Radmarathon.[12] She died from her injuries on 28 June at a hospital.[7][12][14] She was 46 years old.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Katja Husen im Interview". ka-news.de (in German). 16 May 2005. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Katja Husen (GAL-Fraktion)". Hamburg Parliament (in German). Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.
  3. ^ a b c Schirg, Oliver (5 October 2004). "Wer, bitte schön, ist Katja Husen?". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Katja Husen - Biografisches". 15 October 2011. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  5. ^ a b Zuschlag, André (29 June 2022). "Sie war eine grüne Hoffnungsfigur". taz (in German). Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Bundesversammlungen Bündnis 90/Die Grünen". Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (in German). Archived from the original on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  7. ^ a b c d Wunder, Oliver (28 June 2022). "Grünen-Politikerin ist tot: Katja Husen (†46) stirbt nach Fahrrad-Unfall". Tag24 (in German). Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  8. ^ a b Dey, Andreas (28 June 2022). "Grünen-Politikerin stirbt nach Fahrradunfall". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  9. ^ a b "Katja Husen - Profil bei abgeordnetenwatch.de". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). 4 July 2007. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  10. ^ Tangermann, Geli (17 September 2019). "Grünes Machtlabor Eimsbüttel". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  11. ^ Lauterbach, Jörn (20 December 2019). "Grüne in Hamburg erleben ihren Heide-Simonis-Moment". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  12. ^ a b c "Hamburger Grünen-Politikerin nach Rad-Unfall verstorben". Hamburger Morgenpost (in German). 28 June 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  13. ^ Weiser, Michael (29 June 2022). ""Entsetzlich für uns alle" - Was war die Ursache für den Todes-Radsturz der Grünen-Politikerin Katja Husen?". OVB (in German). Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  14. ^ "Nach Sturz bei Radmarathon am Sudelfeld: Frau (46) verstirbt im Krankenhaus". Münchner Merkur (in German). 28 June 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.