Andreas Rimkus (politician)

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Andreas Rimkus (born December 24, 1962 in Düsseldorf ) is a German politician ( SPD ). Since 2011 he has been chairman of the SPD sub-district in Düsseldorf. Since the election to the 18th German Bundestag in 2013, he has been a member of the parliament and deputy spokesman for transport policy for the SPD parliamentary group. Before that he was a member of the City Council of Düsseldorf from 2009 to 2013.

Life and work

Andreas Rimkus from Düsseldorf completed his training as a master electrician. He was an employee of Stadtwerke Düsseldorf and was works council there from 2002 to 2013. He is married and has two children.

politics

Rimkus became a member of the SPD in 1998. Two years later, he supported a petition against the sale of municipal shares in Stadtwerke Düsseldorf . In 2007 he became deputy chairman of the SPD Düsseldorf, 2011 its chairman. His choice was seen as pacifying warring camps within the local party.

Rimkus was nominated for the first time in 2013 as a direct candidate for the Bundestag constituency Düsseldorf II (107), which however went to Sylvia Pantel with 34.98% to 40.75% . However, he managed to move in via the fairly safe list position 19 on the NRW state list. He is a member of the state executive board of the NRW-SPD and the SPD party convention and was involved in the vote on exploratory talks to form a coalition with the CDU / CSU.

As a personal focus of his work he himself names: transport and mobility policy, electromobility, aerospace, housing policy, child and youth policy, labor and social policy.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rp-online.de: CDU councilor against SPD party leader , September 15, 2013
  2. ↑ rp-online.de: Two new ones on their way to Berlin , September 24, 2013
  3. ↑ www.rp-online.de: NRW-SPD wants help from the federal government for the cities
  4. ↑ In the wording: The SPD resolution on the coalition question
  5. ^ CV on the homepage of Andreas Rimkus (accessed January 18, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Rimkus, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf