Bernd Ravens

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Bernd Ravens (2014)

Bernd-Albert Ravens (born May 30, 1944 in Drangstedt , Cuxhaven district ) is a German politician ( non-party , formerly CDU ) and member of the Bremen Parliament . He was Vice-President of this Parliament for 16 years.

biography

Family, education and work

Ravens has lived in Bremerhaven since 1951. After graduating from secondary school , in 1961 he completed vocational training as a bank clerk and then worked for the Sparkasse Bremerhaven . In 1966 he moved to the Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven , where he last worked as a training manager.

He is married, has a son and lives in Bremerhaven- Lehe .

politics

Ravens was a member of the CDU from 1970 to 2015. He has been a member of Bremen's citizenship since October 13, 1975, and thus, after Thomas Goppel (CSU, MdL 1974–2018), is currently the parliamentarian with the second longest membership in a German state parliament . He later became a member of the CDU parliamentary group executive committee. He was from 1979 to 1983 and from 1987 to 1995 as secretary member of the board of the citizenship. From 1995 to 1999 he was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. From 1999 to 2015 he was Vice President of the City Council. In June 2015, a few weeks after the general election in Bremen in 2015 , he resigned from the CDU and has been a non-attached member of parliament ever since . He was represented in the state youth welfare committee, temporary committee for the amendment of the state constitution, petitions committee (state), constitution and rules of procedure committee and on the board of the Bremen citizenship as well as in the state deputation for health.

In August 2016, Ravens was accepted into the SPD parliamentary group.

In the 2005 federal election he was unsuccessful as a direct candidate in constituency 55 (Bremen II and Bremerhaven). He also ran for the CDU in second place on the Bremen state list. As a direct candidate, he was defeated by Uwe Beckmeyer of the SPD with 24.8% , who received 54.5% of the first votes .

In the election for the city council of Bremerhaven, he ran as a non-party candidate in 2019.

Web links

Commons : Bernd Ravens  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-politik-wirtschaft_artikel,-Verlaesst-Ravens-die-CDU-Fraktion-_arid,1145054.html
  2. ↑ On the person of Bernd Ravens . nwzonline.de. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  3. ↑ https://www.spd-fraktion-bremen.de/abteilung/bernd-ravens/
  4. ^ Jürgen Theiner: The marathon man . In: Weser-Kurier from May 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ravens, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ravens, Bernd-Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (independent), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Drangstedt , Cuxhaven district