Eugen Wagner (politician)

Eugen Wagner (born February 4, 1942 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

Eugen Wagner 1982

Life

After graduating from secondary school, Wagner completed an apprenticeship as a shipping company clerk . This was followed by a two-year service with the Bundeswehr . From 1965 he was promoted to head of distribution at BASF’s Hamburg subsidiary, Farben + Faser AG . He was a member of what was then IG Chemie and chairman of the works council of BASF Farben + Faser AG .

Eugen Wagner joined the SPD in 1961. For many years he was chairman of the Hamburg-Mitte district association and from 1970 to 1978 a district member of the Hamburg-Mitte district assembly . He was a member of the citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from June 1978 to March 2004, where he was deputy parliamentary group chairman in 1982/83. During his tenure as senator, his mandate was suspended according to the provisions of the Hamburg constitution.

From February 1983, from the Senate of Dohnanyi II until October 2001, Wagner was a member of the Hamburg Senate and President of the former building and transport authority . Because of the lost state elections in Hamburg in 2001 , he had to give up his post to Mario Mettbach from the Rule of Law Party .

With his 19 years in office - the longest serving Senator in Hamburg - and his robust way of doing politics, he was nicknamed Beton-Eugen .

Private

Wagner is married and has a daughter and two sons, including Hauke ​​Wagner , who was the state chairman of the Hamburg Young Socialists in 2012 and was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 2015 to 2020 . .

literature

• Handbook of Members of the Hamburg Parliament
• Eugen Wagner , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 07/2002 from February 4, 2002, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt dated August 9, 2003
2. ↑ Germany's longest-serving minister resigns, WELT of October 31, 2001
3. ^ The next politician from Wagner, HA of January 28, 2012
4. ↑ Juso boss works for Vattenfall's Energiewende, HA dated August 23, 2012