Astrid Klug

Astrid Klug at a demonstration in Elmshorn (2010)

Astrid Klug (born February 4, 1968 in Homburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2009 to 2012 she was federal manager of the SPD. From 2002 to 2009 and 2013 she was a member of the Bundestag .

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1987 at the Mannlich-Gymnasium in Homburg, Astrid Klug studied librarianship at the University of Applied Sciences for Library and Documentation ( integrated into the Cologne University of Applied Sciences in 1995 ) in Cologne , which she graduated in 1990 as a qualified librarian . She then worked in the library of the Saarland University in Saarbrücken until 1992 . From 1992 to 2002 she headed the office for press and public relations in the administration of the Saarpfalz district .

Political party

Astrid Klug has been involved in the environmental, peace and anti-nuclear power movement since 1984 and in 1987 was one of the initiators and since then also one of the organizers of the annual Saarland eco-fair Environment and Peace Day . In 1985 she became a member of the SPD.

From 1999 to 2008 she was chairwoman of the SPD city association Homburg. In 2001 she was nominated by the SPD as a candidate for the office of Lord Mayor of Homburg, but could not prevail in the election with 34.6% of the votes against Joachim Rippel ( CDU ), who received 62.0% of the votes. After Rippel's appointment as Minister of Economics, a new election was required on January 13, 2008, in which she again ran as a candidate for the SPD and was defeated by the incumbent mayor Karlheinz Schöner (CDU), who won 51.5% of the vote, with 41.3% .

From 1997 to 2010 she was a member of the SPD state executive in Saarland and from 2000 was also deputy SPD state chairman.

On November 15, 2009, Klug was appointed Federal Managing Director of the SPD by the SPD General Secretary Andrea Nahles . On June 1, 2012, she resigned from office for personal reasons.

MPs

From 1994 to 2004 Astrid Klug was a member of the city ​​council of her hometown Homburg.

Astrid Klug was a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2009 . From 2004 to 2005 she was chairwoman of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development. Astrid Klug belonged to the Berlin network and the parliamentary left .

In the 2005 Bundestag elections , Astrid Klug entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Homburg constituency . It got 40.1% of the first votes . With only 30.9% of the votes, she was unable to repeat this success in the 2009 Bundestag election and was defeated by the CDU candidate Alexander Funk , who achieved 33.4%.

On April 16, 2013 moved Astrid Klug, who died on April 6, 2013 deputies Ottmar Schreiner in the Bundestag after she retired at the end of the legislative period in the same year from the Parliament of.

Public offices

On November 23, 2005, she was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the federal government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel and held this office until the end of the Merkel I cabinet on October 27, 2009.

Astrid Klug has been the head of the Climate Protection, Energy, Transport and Aviation Department in the Saarland Ministry of Economic Affairs since January 2014 .

Web links

Commons : Astrid Klug  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Astrid Klug's website
• Biography at the German Bundestag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Facts ( Memento from March 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Federal Managing Director ( Memento of September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the SPD website, accessed on April 17, 2013
3. ↑ SPD federal manager resigns. Zeit online, April 27, 2012, accessed June 2, 2012 . 
4. ^ Pfälzischer Merkur: Astrid Klug changes to the Ministry of Economic Affairs , November 23, 2013