Carl Wechselberg

Carl Wechselberg (born January 1, 1969 in Aurich / Ostfriesland ) is a former German politician ( SPD ), health care manager and consultant. From 2003 to 2011 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives , initially as a member of the left-wing parliamentary group . In May 2009 he resigned from his position as financial and budgetary spokesman for the left-wing parliamentary group there and shortly afterwards resigned from the Die Linke party . Since September 2009 he was a member of the SPD parliamentary group. From 2011 to 2015, Wechselberg headed the strategic financial management and controlling department of the Vivantes healthcare company in Berlin. Wechselberg has been working as a strategy consultant and project manager in Berlin since 2015.

Life

Wechselberg was born and raised in Aurich. After graduating from high school in 1989, Wechselberg began studying psychology at the University of Bremen and completed it after completing his pre-diploma. In Berlin he began in 1993 to study political science at the Free University of Berlin , where he earned his degree in political science 1999th In 1999 and 2000 he worked on his dissertation as a scholarship holder of the Hans Böckler Foundation and in 2000 became a research assistant for budget and financial policy of the PDS parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives. In 2003 Carl Wechselberg moved up to the House of Representatives for Gesine Lötzsch . In 2006, Wechselberg won the direct mandate in the constituency of Marzahn-Hellersdorf 4 . Wechselberg is married and has one son.

Political development

Wechselberg began his political socialization as a member of the SJD Die Falken . From 1987 he belonged to the editorial collective of the theory magazine "PERSPEKTIVEN" . There he dealt in particular with the reception of the “ triple oppression ” theory and the anti-racist resistance movement in the USA. Together with Albert Scharenberg , Wechselberg translated Malcolm X's speeches into German for the first time .

In 1991, Wechselberg and others founded the PDS / Linke List in Bremen and became its chairman in 1992/1993. After moving to Berlin, Wechselberg became active in the Berlin PDS and in 1995 founded the PDS's first student university group at a Berlin university . This won two seats in the elections to the student parliament at the Free University of Berlin in 1996 and Wechselberg became a social officer in the AStA of the FU. During this time, the Berlin alliance against social cutbacks and exclusion was founded , in which Wechselberg played a major role and which subsequently attracted attention in 1997 with a massive extra-parliamentary mobilization against the policy of the CDU / SPD coalition and, in particular, its budgetary policy . In the following period, Wechselberg dealt with the academic reception of the US global city debate and its implications for the political and economic development of Berlin, and in 1999 wrote his thesis on the metropolitan politics of the grand coalition in Berlin since 1991 .

In 2000, Wechselberg was brought in by the leader of the PDS parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives, Harald Wolf, as an employee for budget and financial policy, who has been Wechselberg's political foster father and mentor ever since. Together with other younger PDS politicians ( Klaus Lederer (politician) , Stefan Liebich , Udo Wolf ), Wechselberg helped prepare the first red-red coalition in the capital. Wechselberg succeeded Harald Wolf in early 2003 as budget spokesman for the PDS parliamentary group. He also worked on two committees of inquiry to clarify the Berlin banking scandal and, as deputy chairman of the " Tempodrom " investigative committee, participated in its investigation.

Wechselberg was seen within the left as a representative of strongly reform-oriented positions. He has played a major role in the formulation and implementation of the fiscal consolidation policy in Berlin over the past few years. In 2006, Wechselberg won the Springpfuhl / Biesdorf constituency in Marzahn-Hellersdorf . Carl Wechselberg was spokesman for his parliamentary group in the main committee of the Berlin House of Representatives and in the property committee, member of the parliamentary group's executive committee (from 2006 to 2009) and of the supervisory board of the Berlin property fund.

In May 2009 he resigned from his spokesman functions in the House of Representatives parliamentary group, resigned his membership in the parliamentary group executive committee and left the Left Party a short time later. As reasons, he gave substantive differences with the national policy course of his party. He blamed the party leadership under Oskar Lafontaine for the fact that, in his opinion, the party was running fundamental opposition. Wechselberg criticized the election platform for the 2009 federal election . Wechselberg considered the proposals to counter-finance the costs of the claims over about 300 billion euros to be unenforceable. On September 29, 2009, two days after the federal election, Wechselberg joined the SPD and at the same time became a member of the SPD's parliamentary group. Since 2011, Wechselberg was responsible for the strategic financial management and controlling of a large public health company. Since 2015, Wechselberg has been working for the Berlin strategy consultancy SNPC. Wechselberg has been an independent strategy consultant and project manager since July 2017.

Web links

• spd-berlinermitte.de: Portrait of Carl Wechselberg
• Carl Wechselberg on Oskar Lafontaine at Spiegel-Online, May 10, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Left Party - Forward to the Past. In: Rbb-online.de . May 20, 2009. Retrieved September 4, 2012 .