{"id":43234,"date":"2015-04-28T06:13:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T04:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/politics-firsthand-lawmakers-share-insights-on-the-practical-side-of-politics\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:26:30","slug":"politics-firsthand-lawmakers-share-insights-on-the-practical-side-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/politics-firsthand-lawmakers-share-insights-on-the-practical-side-of-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics Firsthand\u2014Lawmakers Share Insights on the Practical Side of Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">On April 20 and 27, 2015, the 11th-grade students taking political science courses had the opportunity to learn a bit about how politics works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Thomas Spies, a member of the state parliament and SPD mayoral candidate, and Dr. Stefan Heck, a CDU member of the Bundestag, each spent two hours answering questions from the students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Both willingly shared details about their careers, their motivations for entering politics, and the day-to-day realities of a lawmaker\u2019s work. Both elected officials did a very good job of coming across as authentic and conveying a positive image of the political profession. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">After brief introductions, all questions were addressed in detail. The students showed great interest in the following areas: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Political Biography \/ Professional Background \/ Career Goals<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Current Issues in the County and City<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Education Policy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Daily Life of a Member of Congress<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Refugee Issue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Opportunities for Shaping Policy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/5_4572.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4770\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/5_4572.jpg\" alt=\"5_4572\" width=\"3168\" height=\"2112\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4_4464.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4769\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4_4464.jpg\" alt=\"4_4464\" width=\"4753\" height=\"2571\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3_4558_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4768\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3_4558_1.jpg\" alt=\"3_4558_1\" width=\"3410\" height=\"1831\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2_4462.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4767\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2_4462.jpg\" alt=\"2_4462\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3652\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 20 and 27, 2015, the 11th-grade students taking political science courses had the opportunity to learn a bit about how politics works. Dr. Thomas Spies, a member of the state parliament and SPD mayoral candidate, and Dr. Stefan Heck, a CDU member of the Bundestag, each spent two hours answering questions from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48678,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43234\/revisions\/48678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}