Background
Lühmann was born on 28 April 1964 in Oldenburg in North Germany.
politician member of the German Bundestag
Lühmann was born on 28 April 1964 in Oldenburg in North Germany.
In 1983 she completed her A levels (Abitur) and became the first policewoman to join the Lower Saxony Police, rising to the rank of senior police commissioner (Polizeioberkommissarin).
She lives in Hermannsburg in the district of Celle. In the federal elections of 2009, she ran for the constituency of Celle – Uelzen as the successor to Peter Struck who, after 29 years in the Bundestag, no longer wished to seek re-election. With 32.3% of the vote, she was unable to secure the direct mandate and the constituency went to Henning Otte of the Christian Democratic Union. However, Lühmann entered the Bundestag by getting onto the state list.
Since joining the Bundestag, Lühmann"s focus has been on employment and social politics and an energy policy firmly committed to ending nuclear power.
In 2014, she became the Social Democratic Party of Germany parliamentary group"s spokeswoman for transport and digital infrastructure. Since 2014, Lühmann has been part of the parliamentary group’s leadership under chairman Thomas Oppermann.
Furthermore she is the deputy chairman of the German Police Union in Lower Saxony. At the same time she belongs to the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions, where since 2005 she has been chairman of the Special Commission for Women"s Rights and Sexual Equality (FEMM).
She represents the dbb on the executive board of the network, the European Movement in Germany.
European Network of Policewomen (ENP), Member
German Military Reserve Association, Member
German War Graves Commission (VDK), Member
International Association of Women Police (IAWP), Member.
Lühmann is the deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany sub-district of Celle, chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany party on Celle District Council and a member of the parish council of Hermannsburg.
Netzwerk Berlin; European Union Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag]
She has been a member of the Committee on Transport since 2009. In addition, she is an alternate member of the Committee on Home Affairs. Most notably, she refuses to support the deployment of the Bundeswehr at home.
Within the parliamentary group, she was a member of the working group on gender equality and the Afghanistan/Pakistan task force from 2009 to 2013.
In addition to her parliamentary work, Lühmann is the deputy federal chairwoman of the German Civil Service Federation (DBB Beamtenbund und Tarifunion), since 1998 a member of the executive board of the women"s delegation (Bundesfrauenvertretung) to the Federation and a member of the federal executive board of the Commission for Staff and Worker Participation (Bundeshauptvorstandskommission Personalvertretung und Mitbestimmung), as well as a member of the Experts" Commission for Internal Security. She is also a member of the Special Commission for Employment and Social Affairs (SOC).
Deutsche Bahn, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2015)
Deutsche Flugsicherung (Dancer Fitzgerald Sample), Member of the Advisory Board
Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway, Alternate Member of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council
Nürnberger Beamten Lebensversicherung AG, Member of the Supervisory Board.