Claus Möller

Claus Möller on February 6, 2010 as a guest at the state party conference of the SPD Schleswig-Holstein in Neumünster

Claus Möller (born March 19, 1942 in Bornhöved ) is a former German politician ( SPD ). From 1981 to 1988 he was a department head at the state capital Kiel , from 1988 to 1993 State Secretary and from 1993 to 2003 State Minister in Schleswig-Holstein . From 2003 to 2007 he was state chairman of the SPD Schleswig-Holstein.

Life and work

After graduating from a university of applied sciences , Möller joined the Deutsche Bundesbahn as a civil servant . He is married and has two children.

After leaving politics in 2007, Möller devoted himself to other tasks and honorary posts, for example as a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany and chairman of the supervisory board of the Lübeck municipal utilities .

Political party

Claus Möller has been a member of the SPD since 1963. In 1975/76 and from 1983 to 1987 he was chairman of the SPD district association in Kiel .

At the party congress of the SPD Schleswig-Holstein in April 2003 in Bad Segeberg , Möller was elected as the new state chairman. Previously, the previous chairman, Franz Thönnes, failed in his planned re-election in the first ballot with a share of 42.6 percent of the delegate's votes. Thönne's poor performance was mainly attributed to the SPD's recently defeat in the local elections , in which the party fell by 13.1 percentage points to a nationwide vote of 29.3 percent. Möller was confirmed in office at the 2005 state party conference in Kiel. For reasons of age, he decided not to run again at the state party conference in Neumünster in 2007 . Ralf Stegner was elected as his successor as regional chairman on March 24, 2007 .

Claus Möller was chairman of the SPD party council from 2003 until it was replaced by the party convention in 2011 as part of the party reform.

MP

Möller was a member of the council of the state capital Kiel from 1974 and acted there from 1975 to 1981 as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group .

Public offices

From 1981 to 1988 Claus Möller worked as a department head at the state capital Kiel, responsible for the personnel, public order, city cleaning and trucking offices and from 1986 also responsible for environmental protection .

On May 31, 1988, Prime Minister Björn Engholm (SPD) appointed him State Secretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Energy (renamed Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Youth, Health and Energy on May 5, 1992 ) of Schleswig-Holstein . After the resignation of Minister Günther Jansen , Möller became the new Minister for Social Affairs on March 24, 1993, before he was finally appointed Minister of Finance and Energy on May 19, 1993 by the newly elected Prime Minister Heide Simonis (SPD) on May 19, 1993 . He resigned from this office on February 28, 2003. From May 19, 1993 to May 22, 1996 Möller also acted as Deputy Prime Minister. In 2002, Claus Möller was involved in the so-called " Lohmann Affair" about disregarding procurement guidelines, which did not, however, directly damage him politically.

Before Möller resigned as finance minister, it was initially planned that he would complete the project “Merger of the Landesbank” - the merger of the Hamburgische Landesbank with the Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein to form the new HSH Nordbank AG - as the “minister without a portfolio” with the Prime Minister. With this content an official announcement of the State Chancellery of Schleswig-Holstein was issued. However, Möller's planned subsequent use was not implemented.

In his capacity as a member of the state government of Schleswig-Holstein , Claus Möller was also a member of the Federal Council , initially as a deputy member from March 24, 1993 and as a full member from May 19, 1993 to February 28, 2003. At the suggestion of the SPD parliamentary group in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament , Möller took part in the election of the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2004 and 2009 as a member of the Federal Assembly .

Honors

On January 18, 2013, Claus Möller was awarded the Willy Brandt Medal . In the laudatory speech , his “services to safeguarding democracy and social justice” were recognized.

Web links

Commons : Claus Möller - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Claus Möller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Claus Möller, former Minister D. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church), Public Service Office, accessed on August 5, 2017 .
↑ Ulf B. Christen: Simonis dismisses and promotes. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. January 20, 2003, accessed August 5, 2017 .
↑ Reorganization of the state government: Announcement by the head of the state chancellery of January 28, 2003. In: Official Journal for Schleswig-Holstein 2003. January 28, 2003, p. 68 , accessed on August 5, 2017 .
↑ Kieler Nachrichten of January 26, 2013

personal data
SURNAME	Möller, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bornhöved

[1] Claus Möller, former Minister D. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church), Public Service Office, accessed on August 5, 2017 .

[2] Ulf B. Christen: Simonis dismisses and promotes. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. January 20, 2003, accessed August 5, 2017 .

[3] Reorganization of the state government: Announcement by the head of the state chancellery of January 28, 2003. In: Official Journal for Schleswig-Holstein 2003. January 28, 2003, p. 68 , accessed on August 5, 2017 .

[4] Kieler Nachrichten of January 26, 2013