Clemens Reif

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Clemens Reif (2013)

Clemens Reif (born January 21, 1949 in Gießen ) is a Hessian entrepreneur, politician ( CDU ) and former member of the Hessian state parliament .

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1969, Clemens Reif studied economics between 1970 and 1974 and completed an apprenticeship as a freight forwarder in 1974 .

From 1975 to 1997, Reif held managerial positions in companies in the international freight forwarding and waste disposal industry and was chairman of the board from April 1997 to October 2007 and majority shareholder of Vfw Aktiengesellschaft, Cologne, and managing director of Vfw GmbH until 2004 . Since November 2007, Clemens Reif has been a founding shareholder and board member of Chrilian Aktiengesellschaft based in Herborn. This company is owned equally by Reif and his sons and is involved in renewable energy companies (hydropower plants and solar systems).

Clemens Reif is Catholic, married and has two grown sons.

politics

Clemens Reif has been a member of the CDU since 1966 and has been a member of the Lahn-Dill district since 1972 .

From December 1, 1982 to August 4, 1983 and again from April 27, 1987, Reif was a directly elected member of the Hessian state parliament (constituency 16 - Lahn-Dill I), where he was primarily active in the field of economic and financial policy is. He has been chairman of the Committee for Economics and Transport since November 14, 2006. Reif is one of the very few active entrepreneurs in the Hessian state parliament. From April 5, 1999 to February 22, 2005, Reif was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. In the state elections in Hesse in 2018 , Reif did not stand for election and left parliament.

On August 31, 2000, there was an uproar in the state parliament when Reif made an interjection during a speech by the Green politician Tarek Al-Wazir (whose father is from Yemen ), which many people present said: “Go back to Sana'a “Was understood. Reif said he shouted "A student from Sana'a".

Reif was a member of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Federal Assembly .

Other offices

Since July 2004, Reif has been a member of the Board of Directors of Hessischer Rundfunk , Frankfurt am Main . He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen in Frankfurt since June 2003 . Since 1993 he has been an advisory board member of Sparkassenversicherung , Wiesbaden. Clemens Reif was elected President of the Partnership of Parliaments (PdP) on November 4, 2007.

Web links

Commons : Clemens Reif  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ website of Chrilian AG
  2. ^ Hessian state parliament: Members, committees and organization. (Handbook of the Hessian State Parliament, 18th electoral period, Volume 1), p. 171
  3. ↑ Racism and an "elitist pee" , article from August 31, 2000 on Spiegel Online
  4. ↑ A matter of interpretation , article from November 17, 2008 on Spiegel Online
personal data
SURNAME Reif, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH to water