Kurt Bodewig

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Kurt Bodewig (2017)

Kurt Hubert Bodewig (born April 26, 1955 in Rheinberg ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2000 to 2002 he was Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing .

Life and work

After completing secondary school , Bodewig began training as a businessman in the real estate and housing industry. He then attended the technical college for economics in Grevenbroich , which he left in 1976 with a technical diploma. Until 1981 he worked as an apartment manager at Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf as well as in construction and housing companies. After completing his civil service in a nursing home in Düsseldorf, he took over the management of the civil service administrative office at the Lower Rhine District Association of the AWO in 1981 . From 1986 to 2000 he worked as a department head at the DGB regional district of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Bodewig is honorary chairman of the board of the Baltic Sea Forum e. V. and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Hamburg-based foreign trade consultancy Inea Solutions GmbH . He is also a Senior Adviser at the management consulting firm KPMG in Berlin and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Global Panel Foundation .

In 2007 Bodewig became President of Deutsche Verkehrswacht e. V. elected. Since 2015 he has been an honorary professor in the field of transport logistics, especially transport policy and transport infrastructure, at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences .

Kurt Bodewig is married and has two sons. He lives in Hamburg .

Political party

Bodewig has been a member of the SPD since 1973. From 1982 to 1988 he was chairman of the Lower Rhine Juso district. From 1995 to 2005 he was chairman of the SPD district association Neuss and from 2002 to 2004 chairman of the SPD region Niederrhein. From 2001 to 2005 he was a member of the SPD federal executive committee.

MP

From 1998 to 2009 Bodewig was a member of the German Bundestag : 14th Bundestag 1998–2002 ( Cabinet Schröder I ), 15th Bundestag 2002–2005 ( Cabinet Schröder II ), 16th Bundestag 2005–2009 ( Cabinet Merkel I , grand coalition). From November 2002 he was Deputy Chairman of the Bundestag Committee for European Union Affairs . He belongs to the Berlin Network , of which he was one of the initiators in 1998, and is co-editor of the magazine Berliner Republik . Bodewig was elected to the Bundestag in 2002 as a directly elected member of the Neuss I constituency and otherwise always via the state list of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia .

Public offices

On March 20, 2000, Bodewig was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Housing . After the resignation of the then incumbent Reinhard Klektiven he became his successor as Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing on November 20, 2000. After the federal election in 2002 , he left the federal government on October 22, 2002 .

During his term of office as Federal Minister, the introduction of the Energy Saving Ordinance as well as the truck toll legislation in Germany and the contract with the Toll Collect company , which was signed on September 20, 2002, fall .

He has been Honorary Consul of Lithuania since autumn 2011 . The consular district includes the states of Hamburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein .

From 2014 to 2018 Bodewig was initially European Coordinator for the Trans-European core transport corridor "Baltic-Adriatic" (BAC) , in September 2018 he was selected by the European Commission's coordinator for the Motorways of the Sea ordered (MoS).

He was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Flughafen Köln / Bonn GmbH until the end of 2017 , but has been replaced by Friedrich Merz . Bodewig is also a member of the Presidential Council of the Björn Steiger Foundation and of the Presidium of the German Traffic Guard .

cabinet

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Kurt Bodewig, Rainer Hesels, Dieter Mahlberg (eds.): The creeping danger - right-wing extremism today . Essen 1990.

Web links

Commons : Kurt Bodewig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Infrastructure policy is location policy". Honorary professor Kurt Bodewig gives the inaugural lecture at the infrastructure symposium of the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences . Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences; accessed on June 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ b- Republik.de accessed July 1, 2017
  3. ↑ Changes ( Memento from January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ koeln-bonn-airport.de
  5. ↑ Bernd Eyermann, Ulla Thiede: Airport boss Garvens under suspicion . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . November 10, 2017, p. 8 .
  6. ↑ Imprint & data protection. Björn Steiger Foundation, accessed on May 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bodewig, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodewig, Kurt Hubert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinberg