Christoph Zöpel
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Christoph Zöpel (born July 4, 1943 in Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia ) is a German politician ( SPD ).
From 1978 to 1980 he was Minister for Federal Affairs , from 1980 to 1985 Minister for State and Urban Development and from 1985 to 1990 Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1999 to 2002 he was Minister of State in the Foreign Office .
On June 24, 2017, Zöpel was elected chairman of the Rhenish Association for the Preservation of Monuments and Landscape Protection with no votes against .
Life and work
Zöpel spent his childhood in the East Westphalian city of Minden , where he graduated from the Staatliches Altsprachliche Gymnasium in 1962 . Zöpel then completed a degree in economics , philosophy and public law in Berlin and Bochum , which he completed in 1969 with a degree in economics . 1973 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. oec. with the thesis Economics and Law: a scientific historical and scientific theoretical contribution to the relationship between economics and law . From 1974 he worked as an academic adviser. As Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, he initiated the IBA Emscher Park in the 1980s , which was finally implemented between 1989 and 1999 under the direction of Karl Ganser . He thus made a pioneering contribution to structural change in the Ruhr area . He is an honorary member of the German Werkbund .
Christoph Zöpel is married and has three children.
Political party
Zöpel has been a member of the SPD since 1964. From 1974 to 1979 he was chairman of the SPD sub-district of Bochum. From 1975 to 1997 he was a member of the SPD state executive in North Rhine-Westphalia , of which from 1977 as deputy state chairman. From 1992 to 1996 he was a member of the presidium of the SPD. Since 2001 he has been a member of the SPD federal executive committee, of which he was a member from 1986 to 1995.
MP
From 1969 to 1972 he was councilor of the city of Bochum, from 1972 to 1990 a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.
From 1990 to 2005 Zöpel was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was chairman of the EC committee from 1991 to 1993 and chairman of the foreign policy working group of the SPD parliamentary group from 1998 to 1999 . 2002–2005 Chairman of the United Nations Subcommittee .
Christoph Zöpel has always entered the German Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Public offices
On February 9, 1978, Prime Minister Heinz Kühn appointed him to the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia as Minister for Federal Affairs. He kept this office under his successor Johannes Rau .
After the state election in 1980, he was appointed Minister for State and Urban Development on June 4, 1980. After the state election in 1985, his departmental competencies were expanded so that from June 5, 1985, he was Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Transport. After the state election in 1990, he resigned from the state government on June 12, 1990.
On September 17, 1999, Zöpel was appointed Minister of State in the Foreign Office in the federal government led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder . After the federal election in 2002 , he left office on October 22, 2002.
Actions in office
Zöpel initiated the eye-catching color scheme of the Ruhr University Bochum . According to the experts, the color "delays the weathering of the concrete ". At the suggestion of Christoph Zöpel, a comprehensive school was built in Weilerswist .
Awards
- 2001: Ix-Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika
- 2007: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2017: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Cabinets
Web links
- Homepage of Christoph Zöpel
- Literature by and about Christoph Zöpel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography at the German Bundestag
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ruhrbarone.de/uber-zwanzig-jahre-iba-emscher-park-einen-burgermeister-furs-ganze-revier-und-eine-grose-burgerinitiative-interview-mit-christoph-zopel/
- ^ Christoph Zöpel at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- ↑ "Bochum becomes the new Munich" - A guided tour through the Ruhr city with the former NRW Minister for Urban Development, Christoph Zöpel, by Martin Kessler in rp-online.de on April 2, 2016, accessed on April 3, 2016
- ↑ "25 years of Weilerswist comprehensive school. Much opposition to founding - contemporary witnesses report on Jost Zimmermann in ksta.de on August 25, 2017, accessed on September 5, 2017
- ↑ Ministerialblatt (MBl. NRW.) . Edition 2017 No. 4 from February 3, 2017, pages 59 to 70. Accessed February 5, 2017.
- ^ State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. . Awarded the State Order of Merit on January 18, 2017. Retrieved on February 5, 2017.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zöpel, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL, MdB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia |