Frank Schwabe

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Frank Schwabe (born November 12, 1970 in Waltrop ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the German Bundestag .

Life and work

Frank Schwabe was born in Waltrop and grew up in Castrop-Rauxel. After graduating from Ernst-Barlach-Gymnasium in Castrop-Rauxel in 1990 , Schwabe did his military service in Pinneberg, Delmenhorst and Goch. He then took up a degree in economics in Osnabrück , then switched to the University of Essen to study land management, history , political science and sociology , without however finishing one of the courses with a degree. From 2000 he was initially employed in the office of a member of the Bundestag and from 2003 to 2004 for a member of the European Parliament.

Political party

Schwabe joined the SPD in 1991, was chairman of the SPD city association Castrop-Rauxel from 2002 to 2010 and has been chairman of the SPD district association Recklinghausen since 2010. From 2002 until its dissolution, he was a member of the Federal Party Council of the SPD. Since then he has been a member of the party convention.

Frank Schwabe is a member of the parliamentary left and spokesman for the SPD “think tank”.

MP

Schwabe was a member of the district council of the Recklinghausen district from 2004 to 2005 and was councilor of the city of Castrop-Rauxel from 2004 to 2012 .

In the 2005 Bundestag election , Frank Schwabe succeeded Jochen Welt with 55.7% of all first votes as the directly elected member of the constituency of Recklinghausen I ( Recklinghausen , Castrop-Rauxel, Waltrop) in the Bundestag.

In the Bundestag , Schwabe is a full member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid and the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety , as well as a deputy member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy .

Schwabe is the group's spokesman for human rights and humanitarian aid. As a reporter for climate policy in the SPD parliamentary group, he is responsible for the politically effective implementation of measures against climate change as part of his committee work. He is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and deputy head of the German delegation.

As a member of the German-South American and German-Central American parliamentary groups, Latin America is one of the focal points of his parliamentary work. In addition, he is a member and deputy chairman of the parliamentary group for the English and Portuguese speaking countries of West and Central Africa. Schwabe is Vice President of the environmental organization Globe International . In January 2019, he and four other MPs were guests on a Sea Watch ship in the Mediterranean.

Voluntary and social engagement

Frank Schwabe is involved in numerous local and supraregional initiatives, for example the German-Greek-Turkish town twinning association of his constituency town Castrop-Rauxel with Trikala and Zonguldak , the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany , the workers' welfare and the IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie .

Wikipedia

Schwabe's Wikipedia article has been changed more often and the note that he has not graduated in any of his subjects has been removed. After researching the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Schwabe then admitted that his office “took care” of the repayment.

Web links

Commons : Frank Schwabe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A flaw in the résumé: German top politicians disguise their dropouts . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 26, 2013
  2. ↑ Junge Freiheit: Left politicians are calling for more migrants to be accepted
  3. ↑ Beautified CVs - Many MPs without qualifications . In: tagesschau.de , August 10, 2016, accessed December 25, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Schwabe, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltrop