Ansgar Focke

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Ansgar Focke in November 2009
Ansgar Focke

Ansgar-Bernhard Focke (born April 22, 1982 in Wiesbaden ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 2008 to 2017 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life and work

Ansgar Focke is the son of Albert Focke, the district administrator of the Vechta district , who died in 2014 . Ansgar Focke attended the commercial high school in Lohne until 2000 . After obtaining his technical college entrance qualification , he trained as an insurance salesman from 2000 to 2003 . From 2003 to 2006 Focke was employed as an employee. In 2006 he opened an insurance and finance agency in Vechta and has been an independent insurance salesman ever since. Since 2007 he lived in Ganderkesee .

Ansgar Focke has been married to Elisabeth Focke-Bulst since 2015. The couple have a daughter and a son.

Since leaving the Lower Saxony state parliament in 2017, Focke has been employed by the Signal Iduna insurance group as director for target groups. He moved to his wife's home in Hillmersdorf in the Elbe-Elster district.

politics

Ansgar Focke has been a member of the Junge Union since 1998 and of the CDU since 1999. He has also been a member of the Christian Democratic Workforce (CDA) since 2000 and has been a member of the Christian Democrats for Life (CDL) and the medium-sized and business association of the CDU / CSU (MIT) since 2005 .

Young Union

In the Junge Union, he was initially involved in the city association (1998 to 2001, among other things as chairman) and in the Vechta district association. From 2003 to September 2009 he was regional chairman of the Junge Union Landesverband Oldenburg. In this capacity he was co-initiator of the nationwide campaign “Ostalgie? no thanks". From 2010 to 2014 Focke was Federal Treasurer of the JU, from 2014 to 2016 Deputy Federal Chairman.

Offices in the CDU

In 2003 Focke was elected as an assessor in the state executive committee of the CDU Oldenburg. From November 2008 to October 2014 he was CDU regional director. In December 2008, Ansgar Focke was elected CDU district chairman in the Oldenburg district for the first time with 93.8%. He has since been confirmed twice in office. In August 2014, the CDU district parliamentary group elected him as the new parliamentary group leader. With his move to Brandenburg in 2017, Focke gave these offices back.

Political mandates

City Council Vechta

In 2001 Ansgar Focke applied for a public local political office for the first time and was elected directly to the Vechta City Council as the youngest candidate. He was reelected in 2006 for five years, put the mandate but in 2007 down when he moved to the nomination for the direct candidate of the CDU in the constituency 64 Oldenburg-Land in the district of Oldenburg moved.

Lower Saxony State Parliament

Ansgar Focke was the top candidate of the Junge Union Niedersachsen for the state election in Lower Saxony in 2008 . Since January 27, 2008, he was directly elected member of constituency 64 Oldenburg-Land and a member of the CDU parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament. In the 16th electoral term (2008 to 2013) he was a member of the Petitions Committee and the Committee on Social Affairs, Women, Family and Health. Within the CDU parliamentary group, he was the spokesman for the young group. In 2012 Focke was a member of the 15th Federal Assembly .

In the 17th electoral term, Focke was a member of the Committee on Home Affairs and Sport and the Committee on Environment, Energy and Climate Protection. On February 1, 2017, he left the state parliament for private reasons; Anette Meyer zu Strohen moved up for him .

Web links

Commons : Ansgar Focke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Saxony State Parliament: Petitions Committee. Retrieved April 2, 2008 .
  2. ^ Lower Saxony State Parliament: Committee for Social Affairs, Women, Family and Health. Retrieved April 2, 2008 .
  3. Junge Union Niedersachsen (Ed.): Young group of the CDU parliamentary group was constituted . Press release, February 21, 2008.