Verena Hubertz, dressed in a white blouse and jacket, quickly goes to the construction site. Behind her are forests, taps above her swimming, on this day you can only hear a noise in the middle. The perfect background in Berlin-Mitte for the Minister of Construction to make news. “Today we light a turbo building,” Hubertz joyfully says to the microphone. Soon the federal office determined its draft law to speed up the building. Officially, the law has a complex name, but now it is distributed under the name “Bauturbo” – and, perhaps, it also tells a lot about the new Federal Minister of Construction from SPD.
Verena Hubertz does not lose himself in invested sentences. She breaks complex things. In short videos on Instagram, she gives an idea of her daily work. Often you also learn personal things: it is a fan 1. But Hubertz can also be fastened: in an interview Mirror If she says that she lives on rent, but is also a lessor – she does not want to disclose what prices she requires.
At the Berlin construction site, Veren Hubertz explains that now you can build faster in the future. Or increase and die. “Like here, there was my parking place, and now a real city district is being built here,” she says. She does not respond to the intervention of the resident that there were also trees. Maybe she didn’t hear it.
In any case, environmental associations and the opposition are afraid that the new law will be built indiscriminately. Less environmental examination, less noise protection, less participation of citizens, less remarkable sealing of the area, heating of floor speculation. “This does not mean that we are now throwing all the rules regarding Wupper,” Hubertz explains.
Keyword policy
But the problems should be “pragmatic and faster.” The target conflicts that exist during construction should not “paralyze us”. There is no time for problems. “Speed, technology and tolerance” is required. Politics with keywords. Marketing is compatible.
This corresponds to the career of 37-year-olds who have not worked in politics for a long time. In 2013, the business economist founded Start-up Kitchen Stories, an application for cooking recipes, which was subsequently sold to Bosch subsidiary. In 2020, Hubertz left the company and ran for Bundestag. With success, in 2021, she won a direct mandate for her Trier constituency, and then became deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. Just a few years later, it is the Federal Minister of Construction.
The big task was entrusted with this position. It is designed to ensure that life again becomes affordable – at a time when the number of homeless people increases, families are compressed by several square meters, and the construction industry announces. Despite them, Verena Hubertz wants to build. Quick and a lot. The collection of wood and the series is preferable. Germany is not only too slow, but also too complicated, she says. The approval process should last five years in the future, and only two months. She wants to double the cost of construction.
They are complete promises for the Minister, who had previously had no contact with the construction policy. The previous government promised 400,000 apartments and failed.
From the point of view of content, Hubertz does not establish completely new accents, but it is more present than its predecessor. Clara Gaveitz was considered too pale for many, too relaxed. Hubertz looks dynamic, relies on emotions. In her first speech, the Bundestag as a minister said that her father had previously screwed up on excavators as a locksmith, and now she wanted to provide “excavators in this country again.” Or that she sold Free potatoes for a small salary at Burger King to pay the common room.
She thinks that life should remain accessible to traders of a pensioner. Nevertheless, the entrepreneur always flickers in his statements, for example, when she says: “The construction industry is the locomotive of our economy.” It will be shown what this means for home policy in the coming years.
