Ernst Kastning

Ernst Kastning (born August 1, 1938 in Bückeburg ) is a German political scientist and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After attending elementary school, Kastning completed an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker and cabinet maker, which he completed with the journeyman's examination. He then worked in trade and industry. On his second education path, he went through a degree in political science in Berlin , which he completed with the examination as a political scientist. From 1963 to 1978 he worked in adult education. He joined the trade union education and science (GEW) and was later managing director of the non-profit educational organization Lower Saxony of the German trade union federation (DGB). He is also active in the Reich Association of War Victims, the Handicapped, Social Pensioners and Survivors , in the Workers' Welfare Organization (AWO) and in the volunteer fire brigade .

Ernst Kastning is married and has three children.

politics

Kastning joined the SPD in 1958, was elected to the executive committee of the SPD sub-district in 1964 and was its chairman from 1974 to 1987. From 1964 to 1973 he was a council member of the community of Müsingen and from 1973 to 1976 council member of the city of Bückeburg. In both municipalities he temporarily served as the deputy mayor . From 1968 to 1983 he was a member of the district council of the Schaumburg district . There he officiated 1978/79 as deputy district administrator .

Kastning was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1978 until his resignation in 1983 . In the federal election in 1983 he was elected to the German Bundestag , to which he was a member until 1998. In parliament he represented the constituency of Nienburg - Schaumburg , which he won directly in 1987 and 1994. In 1983 and 1990 he entered parliament via the state list of the SPD Lower Saxony.

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag