Daniel Buchholz

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Daniel Buchholz (2013)

Daniel Buchholz (born February 20, 1968 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since 2001 .

Life

Daniel Buchholz grew up in Berlin-Haselhorst and graduated from the Bertolt-Brecht-Oberschule in Wilhelmstadt . He then studied at the TU Berlin with a degree in industrial engineering . During his studies he worked in industrial companies and as a journalist (including for the Spandauer Volksblatt , the GONZO magazine and radio and TV stations). After graduating, he worked for a large telecommunications company for around 10 years, most recently as a senior project manager in the field of IT solutions. From 2002 to 2009 he worked part-time in parallel to his parliamentary activities.

politics

Buchholz joined the SPD at the age of 18. Since 1998 he has been chairman of the SPD department Haselhorst-Siemensstadt and since 2000 deputy chairman of the SPD Spandau. Since the election on October 21, 2001, he has been a directly elected member of the Berlin House of Representatives for the constituency Spandau 3 (Siemensstadt, Haselhorst, Wilhelmstadt-Nord, Stresow, Tiefwerder); He won his constituency directly four times in a row. On September 18, 2016, Buchholz again moved directly into parliament for the constituency. With 35.1% of the vote, it was the second-best election result for an SPD MP in the country (out of 78 constituencies).

His political priorities are urban development, economy and environmental protection. He is one of the initiators of the strict Berlin gambling hall law, as a result of which hundreds of gambling halls in the city have to close. Daniel Buchholz was a member of the study commission “New Energy for Berlin” (2014–2015). He advocates the Berlin energy transition, a remunicipalisation of electricity and gas networks and the withdrawal from coal use.

In the House of Representatives, he has been a member of the specialist committees for “Urban Development and Housing”, “Environment, Transport and Climate Protection” and for “Cultural Affairs” in the 18th legislative period that has been running since 2016. Buchholz is the spokesman for “Urban Development, Environment, Climate Protection” for the SPD parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives, chairs the “Transport, Environment, Climate” working group and is a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee. Since April 2016 he has also been a member of the state executive committee of the Berlin SPD.

Web links

Commons : Daniel Buchholz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wahlleiterin Berlin: Final election result, constituency 3 Spandau. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Berlin House of Representatives election 2016, results in the constituencies. In: Tagesschau. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Gaming Hall Act is constitutional. Tagesspiegel, March 1, 2013, accessed on February 21, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Half of the gambling halls in Berlin have to close. In: Berliner Morgenpost. August 25, 2016. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Berlin House of Representatives: Study Commission "New Energy for Berlin". Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  6. ↑ No coal for Berlin: Red-Red-Green drives coal phase out. Joint press release. February 16, 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Gasag faces an uncertain future. In: Berliner Morgenpost. June 5, 2016, accessed February 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Buchholz, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH 20th February 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin