Inge Hannemann

Born in Hamburg, Hannemann trained as a forwarding merchant, network administrator and job placement counselor.

[8] On 10 May 2017, Hannemann announced that she would resign from her seat in the Hamburg Parliament for health reasons, effective 31 July, and would withdraw from politics.

[12] Furthermore, Hannemann criticized how case workers at the Job Center deal with recipients of benefits of Hartz IV and applicable guidelines.

[15] The main proceedings were originally scheduled for 11 July 2014 but the court cancelled the day before because the city of Hamburg revoked her assignment to the Job Center in order to employ her in a different position.

[20] Hannemann was the first employee of a German Job Center to publicly criticize the labor market policy of Agenda 2010.

[21] She claimed in her Altona-Blog and many presentations and interviews that "support and demand" (Fördern und Fordern) — the proclaimed goal of the Hartz-concept — long since gave way to technocracy.

Hartz IV fails to offer a perspective for unemployed people to reenter the labor market, but instead applies sanctions to deny their benefits.