Monika Stolz (born March 24, 1951 in Worms) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She was a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament from 2001 to 2016 and Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Labor and Social Affairs from 2006 to 2011.
After studying economics in Freiburg, Monika Stolz worked as a research associate at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation from 1974 to 1977. From 1976 to 1983, she studied human medicine in Giessen, Würzburg, and Bonn, received her doctorate in 1984, and worked as a physician.
Since retiring from politics in 2016, Stolz has been involved in a variety of volunteer activities. She is chair of the Abuse Commission (“Sexual Abuse Commission,” KsM) of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart[1] and was also appointed by the Bishop of Rottenburg to chair the Diocesan Caritas Council, which acts as the ecclesiastical supervisory body of the German Caritas Council Association.[2] Stolz is also active on the board of trustees of the St. Elisabeth Foundation[3] (Bad Waldsee), the Central Committee of German Catholics, the Broadcasting Council of the Southwest Broadcasting Corporation, and other advisory boards.[4]
Monika Stolz is Roman Catholic, married, and the mother of four children.
From 1989, Stolz served as a city councilor in Ulm, chairing the CDU municipal council group from 1991 to 1999, and as a local councilor in the Ulm district of Unterweiler from 1989 to 2004.
In 2001, Stolz was elected to the Baden-Württemberg state parliament with a direct mandate for constituency 64 – Ulm, and served until 2016. She served as deputy chair of the CDU parliamentary group from July 2004 to October 2005. She did not run in the 2016 state election.
From October 2005 to January 2006, Stolz served as Political State Secretary in the State Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sport. Following Andreas Renner’s resignation as Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, she was appointed as his successor by Prime Minister Günther Oettinger and held the ministerial post from 2006 until the Kretschmann government came to power in 2011.
In 2008, she refused to deliver a welcoming address at the Christopher Street Day in Stuttgart, citing, among other things, the event’s chosen motto: “I believe” in her written rejection to the organizers.
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