Achim Grossmann

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Achim Großmann (born April 17, 1947 in Aachen ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1998 to 2009 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing and from 2005 Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development .

Life and work

After graduating from the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen in 1966 , Großmann studied psychology at the Technical University of Aachen , which he completed in 1972 as a qualified psychologist. He then worked as an educational advisor at the counseling center for parents, children and young people in Alsdorf until 1986, and has been its director since 1979. At the same time, he worked for a few semesters as a lecturer in administrative psychology at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Aachen.

Achim Großmann is divorced and has two children.

Political party

He has been a member of the SPD since 1971. From 1982 to 1996 he was chairman of the SPD sub- district of Aachen, and from 1983 to 1995 he was a member of the SPD district executive for the Middle Rhine.

MP

From 1975 to 1998 Großmann was councilor of the city of Würselen .

From 1987 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1991 to 1998 he was a spokesman for housing policy on the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group.

Achim Großmann has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Aachen . In the 2005 Bundestag election he received 46.0% of the first votes . In the 2009 federal election , Großmann no longer applied for a mandate.

Public offices

After the Bundestag election in 1998 , he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing on October 27, 1998 in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder . After the formation of the grand coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel , the ministry was renamed the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development. After the federal election in 2009 and the subsequent change in government, Großmann left office in October 2009. In the eleven years of his tenure, he served under five different transport ministers.

As Parliamentary State Secretary, Achim Großmann was a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn and was involved in the preparations for the IPO.

Cabinets

Publications

  • Würselen - story (s) in old pictures .
  • Würselener views . 1st edition. Martin Schulz bookstore , Würselen 1987 (together with Josef Amberg).
  • The red fellows in the black west. The early history of the social democratic movement in the Aachen region . Hahne & Schloemer Verlag, Düren 2014, ISBN 978-3-942513-24-1 .
  • Würselen cigars . Hahne & Schloemer Verlag, Düren, October 26, 2015.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Verkehrsrundschau.de: Transport State Secretary Großmann resigns . July 9, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Grossmann, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen