Denis Alt

Denis Alt (2016)

Denis Alt (born October 21, 1980 in Kirn ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and State Secretary in the Ministry for Science, Further Education and Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Life and work

Denis Alt completed his Abitur at the Emanuel-Felke-Gymnasium in Bad Sobernheim and then studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz with a degree in economics (2005). In 2012, Denis Alt was awarded a PhD with an economics thesis on federalism and decentralization. rer. pole. PhD. From 2005 to 2014 he worked in various functions for the Rhineland-Palatinate state government , including from 2009 to 2011 as personal advisor and policy advisor to the then State Secretary for Economic Affairs and today's chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, Alexander Schweitzer . From 2011 Denis Alt worked in the Ministry of Finance, most recently as a government director. From July 2014 to February 2019, Denis Alt was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament for constituency 18 (Kirn / Bad Sobernheim) . He is married, has two children and lives in Bad Sobernheim.

Political activities

Denis Alt has been a member of the SPD since 1998 and was deputy chairman of the Jusos Rheinland-Pfalz from 2003 to 2004 . He is a member of the Bad Sobernheim municipal council. Since 2009 he has also been chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there. He is also deputy district chairman of the SPD in the Bad Kreuznach district and a member of the district council. He was Peter Wilhelm Dröscher's B candidate and has been a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament since July 1, 2014. In the state elections in 2016, he was able to defend the direct mandate in the constituency of Kirn / Bad Sobernheim. He was economic policy spokesman and chairman of the working group on economics and transport of the SPD parliamentary group and a member of the budget and finance committee.

Since March 1, 2019, Denis Alt has been State Secretary in the Ministry of Science, Further Education and Culture.

Other activities

He is also chairman of the forum for political education Nahe-Hunsrück e. V. and an active member in numerous local and regional associations. Since 2016 he has been a member of the district synod in the Evangelical Church District An Nahe and Glan.

Publications

• Fair tax base necessary for future challenges - a response. In: Wirtschaftsdienst 8/2014, pp. 579–582. (together with Gisela Färber and Carsten Kühl )
• Reorganization of taxation competences for income tax - relief of vertical and horizontal financial equalization. In: Economic Service. 4/2014, pp. 267-274. (together with Gisela Färber and Carsten Kühl )
• Decentralization, Federalism, and Growth: An International Comparative Analysis. Publisher Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2013.
• The reform of the inheritance tax - an initial assessment. In: Economic Service. 11/2007, pp. 728-731. (in cooperation with Salvatore Barbaro )
• On the necessity of immigration from an economic and socio-political point of view. In: District youth work of the AWO Birkenfeld (ed.): Immigration and integration. Info booklet, January 2002.

Web links

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