Career
Herlitzius is the Bundestag representative for Kreis Aachen which is located along Germany"s borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, 65 km (40 mi) west of Cologne. Her initial term began in 2007 but she was re-elected as Member of Parliament in September 2009. She is currently Green Party"s spokesperson on tourism and housing policy.
Her political career so far:-
Member and vice chairman of the Regional Cologne.
Like fellow party member Gerhard Schick, Herlitzius is a committed environmentalist and the pair have taken steps to introduce environmental taxes within the German Parliament. After school Herlitzius studied architecture at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen in Aachen where she graduated from in 1989.
She then worked as an independent architect until 1993 when she began her Referendariat or Training programme at the State Building Authority in the Ministry of Construction and Housing. After completing her final state exams she became director of the Office of Traffic, housing, building and road construction for Aachen county.