Dietrich Birk
Dietrich Birk (born March 2, 1967 in Göppingen ) is a managing director in mechanical and plant engineering, management consultant and former CDU politician, retired political state secretary. D. and former member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . Since 2014 he has been managing director of the Association of German Machine and Plant Engineering (VDMA) in Baden-Württemberg and represents around 800 member companies in Baden-Württemberg. The Allianz Industrie 4.0 Baden-Württemberg, a knowledge and transfer network for the digitization of industrial SMEs in the direction of Industry 4.0, is also part of the VDMA Landesverband.
Life, education and work
Birk finished his school education in 1986 with the Abitur at Mörike-Gymnasium in Göppingen. After completing his military service, he studied business administration in Tübingen. He completed his studies in 1992 with a diploma examination. In 1999 he received his doctorate in economics and social sciences from the University of Tübingen. From 1992 to 1994 he was assistant to a member of the Bundestag. From 1995 to 2000 he worked as a marketing and senior product manager in the telecommunications industry. From 2001 to 2005 he was a group representative in the energy industry. From 2006 to 2011 Birk was political state secretary of the state government of Baden-Württemberg in the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts. From 2011 to 2014 he was an independent management consultant and senior advisor at Horvath & Partners Management Consultants. From 1996 to 2013 Birk was directly elected member of the state parliament for constituency 10 - Göppingen.
Birk is married and has two children.
Political activity
In 1982 Dietrich Birk joined the Junge Union and in 1986 the CDU in the Göppingen district. From 1990 to 1994 he was district chairman of the Junge Union in Göppingen, from 1994 to 1999 district chairman of the Junge Union Nordwürttemberg and a member of the state board of the Junge Union Baden-Württemberg. Dietrich Birk is currently deputy district chairman of the CDU district association of North Württemberg.
In the local elections in 1994, 1999 and 2004 Dietrich Birk was elected as a member of the regional assembly of the Stuttgart Region Association. Until 2006, he accompanied the function of working group chairman and speaker of the CDU in the committee for economy, infrastructure and administration.
In 2005/2006 he was CDU state manager in Baden-Württemberg and had primarily prepared and organized the 2006 state election campaign. The CDU achieved 44.2 percent of the valid votes cast in Baden-Württemberg under the then Prime Minister Günther Oettinger .
On July 23, 2013, Dietrich Birk announced that he would resign his mandate as a member of the state parliament on December 31, since he had been appointed managing director of the Baden-Württemberg state association of the German mechanical and plant engineering association from January 1, 2014 .
His successor was the second candidate in the constituency (10) Göppingen Jutta Schiller .
MP
In 1996, at the age of 29, Dietrich Birk was elected as the youngest member of the CDU parliamentary group for constituency 10 of Göppingen. He was also directly elected in the 2001 and 2006 state elections. From 1998 to 2006 he was a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee, from 2001 to 2006 economic policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group. With the direct mandate won again in the district of Göppingen, Birk entered the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg on March 27, 2011. From 2011 to 2013 he was science and research policy spokesman and member of the parliamentary committee of the CDU parliamentary group.
State Secretary
From 2006 to 2011 Dietrich Birk was appointed political state secretary in the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts in the state government of Baden-Württemberg. In the field of science and university policy, he was responsible for the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, the universities of applied sciences and the art colleges and dealt with application-oriented research and technology transfer at the interface between science and business. He set particular milestones with the law to convert the vocational academies into the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University and the creation of the university expansion program in 2012. In the field of art policy, he advocated the establishment of the Academy for Performing Arts (ADK) in Ludwigsburg and the further development of Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. The art concept “Culture 2020” of the state of Baden-Württemberg was developed under his leadership.
Other functions and memberships
Birk was honorary chairman of the founding supervisory board of the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), member of the founding supervisory board of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), member of the supervisory board of the Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung gGmbH (ZEW) Mannheim, deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Baden-Württemberg International Society for International Economic and Scientific Cooperation mbH, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg GmbH (ADK), Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH as well as various boards of trustees in the field of culture and art. He is also an active member of the Göppingen-Jebenhausen volunteer fire brigade.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Homepage of Dietrich Birk
- Dietrich.pdf Excerpt from the parliamentary handbook of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament for the 15th electoral term
- Profile page CDU parliamentary group
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Birk, Dietrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goeppingen |