Daniel Kreutz

Daniel Kreutz (born October 10, 1954 in Recklinghausen ) is a German politician and social expert.

From 1990 to 2000, Kreutz was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament for Alliance 90 / The Greens . Subsequently, until 2010 he was a consultant for social policy at the Sozialverband Deutschland (SoVD) eV, state association of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since then, he has been involved on a voluntary basis in the social policy of the SoVD at state and federal level.

Life

After high school in 1973 in Leverkusen , he began studying the philosophy and German literature , which he broke off later. In Cologne he retrained to become a machine fitter from 1981 to 1983 and worked in this profession from 1985 to 1990.

In 1972 Kreutz joined the youth organization of the International Marxists (GIM), the Revolutionary Communist Youth (RKJ), and shortly afterwards he became a member of the GIM. Kreutz was involved in the anti-nuclear and peace movements and in 1985 took part in the 12th World Congress of the Fourth International. From 1985 to 1990 he was a council member of the Crafts Committee of the IG Metall Cologne and the tariff and negotiating committee of IG Metall for the locksmith in North Rhine-Westphalia.

In 1986 he joined the party Die Grünen and was spokesman for the state working group "Greens and trade unionists" from 1986 to 1991. From 1989 to 1990 Kreutz was an assessor in the state executive and in 1990 was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament via the state reserve list of the Greens. There he was spokesman for the parliamentary group for labor, health and social affairs. During the coalition negotiations with the SPD in 1995, he was negotiator for the Greens for the area of ​​responsibility of the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs and, towards the end of the 12th state parliament, was a member of the coalition committee chaired by Prime Minister Wolfgang Clement . In the coalition dispute over the Garzweiler II open- cast lignite mine , Kreutz was spokesman for the left wing of the party.

Due to a disagreement with the political development of the Greens at federal and state level, Kreutz decided not to run again for the state elections in 2000 . Shortly afterwards he left the party and has been non-party ever since.

Kreutz has been a member of the "Network for a Democratic Control of Financial Markets" (predecessor organization of Attac Germany) since 1998 , after which he became a member of attac Germany. He was temporarily involved in the attac working group "Social Security" and wrote articles and essays on questions of social policy. In addition, he is a member of the advisory board of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung NRW and on the scientific advisory board of the Education Community SALZ eV

Fonts

• together with Klaus Dräger and Annelie Buntenbach : Future viability and participation. Alternatives to the politics of the red-green new center . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-87975-779-8
• together with Arno Klönne and Otto Meyer: There is another way! Alternatives to social dismantling . With a contribution by Gisela Notz , 2nd, updated new edition, PapyRossa-Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-89438-305-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniel Kreutz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Daniel Kreutz at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia