Franz Thönnes
Franz Thönnes (born September 16, 1954 in Essen ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2017 . From 2002 to 2005 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Health and Social Security , then until November 2009 Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs .
education and profession
After completing secondary school , Thönnes trained as an industrial clerk and then worked as a sales clerk from 1973 to 1978. In 1978/79 he studied at the Dortmund Social Academy . From 1979 to 2002 he was a secretary at the IG Chemie-Papier-Keramik (from 1997 IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie ). From 1980 to 1988 he was district secretary and from 1988 to 1994 managing director of his union in Hamburg .
Franz Thönnes is married and has two sons.
Political party
He has been a member of the SPD since 1978. From 1986 to 1992 he was chairman of the SPD district association Stormarn . From 1997 to 1999 he was deputy state chairman and since 1999 state chairman of the SPD Schleswig-Holstein . At the state party conference in April 2003 he stood for re-election as state chairman, but received only 47.5% in the first ballot. Thereupon he decided not to run again in the second ballot. Claus Möller was elected as his successor . The failed re-election of Thönnes was mainly due to the poor performance of the SPD in the local elections.
MP
From 1986 to 1994 he was a member of the Stormarn District Council.
From 1994 to 2017 Thönnes was a member of the German Bundestag . From November 2000 to January 2001 he was the social policy spokesman and from February 2001 to October 2002 he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group . Since 2013 he has been deputy foreign policy spokesman for his group.
On June 14, 2007, the Electoral Review, Immunity and Rules of Procedure waived Thönnes' immunity. The public prosecutor's office in Cologne investigated him on suspicion of accepting benefits , as he allegedly took his wife on a trip to Norway financed by E.on Ruhrgas AG in July 2003 and passed her off as a member of the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security. Thönnes rejected the allegations, pointing out that he had financed the trip himself. The proceedings were discontinued a little later because the statements made by Thönnes in his personal statement had proven to be true; taking advantage in office was clearly refuted.
Franz Thönnes entered the Bundestag in 1998 and 2002 as a directly elected member of the constituency Segeberg - Stormarn-Nord and otherwise always via the Schleswig-Holstein state list . For the 2013 federal election he was elected to fifth place on the state list at the SPD Schleswig-Holstein state party conference on April 28, 2013. He received 144 out of 188 possible votes in a combat vote. Thönnes did not run for the 2017 federal election .
In the 18th legislative period he was the deputy chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, of which he has been a member since the 17th legislative period. Thönnes also headed the delegation of the German Bundestag in the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference and is a member of the delegation of the German Bundestag in the parliamentary assembly of the OSCE .
Memberships
Thönnes headed the German-Nordic parliamentary group in the German Bundestag and was a member of the European Union , the German-Baltic , the German-Chinese parliamentary group and the Steering Committee of the Baltic Sea Labor Forum (BSLF) (formerly the Baltic Sea Labor Network ).
In addition, he is a member of the IG BCE , the AWO , the social association Germany and federal chairman of the German-Norwegian friendship society as well as co-chairman of the Norwegian-German Willy Brandt Foundation and also chairman of the association for the promotion of the Norwegian-German Willy-Brandt -Foundation, endowment.
Further memberships: Member of the support group "Die Falken" , Henstedt-Ulzburg / Member of the Friends of the Nordic Film Days, Lübeck / Member of the Heimvolkshochschule Hustedt e. V. / Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Journalist Programs (IJP) / Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board of the Federal Association of German Foundations / Member of the Kaltenkirchen Springhirsch Concentration Camp Memorial Association / Member of the Association "Against Forgetting - For Democracy" / Member of the Advisory Board of the German-Norwegian Youth Forum / America Society, Bad Segeberg / Member of the Schleswig-Holstein-Hamburg State Board of Trustees of the International Federation / Member of the Board of Trustees of the Schleswig-Holstein-Hamburg Tafelstiftung.
Public offices
After the federal election in 2002 , he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Health and Social Security in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder on October 22, 2002 .
After the 2005 Bundestag election , he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs on November 23, 2005. After the start of the CDU-FDP federal government under Angela Merkel , he resigned from this office in November 2009.
Cabinets
swell
- ↑ SPIEGEL Online from June 14, 2007_1
- ↑ SPIEGEL Online from June 14, 2007_2
- ↑ Personal statement by Franz Thönnes ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated June 14, 2007
- ↑ SPIEGEL Online from June 27, 2007
- ↑ Protocol of the SPD state party conference ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated April 28, 2013
- ^ Vorwaerts.de: "Outgoing SPD MPs: Unforgettable and very difficult moments" , July 14, 2017
literature
- Franz Thönnes , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 01/2011 from January 4, 2011, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
Theodor Werner (1945–1946) | Wilhelm Kuklinski (1946–1947) | Heinrich Fischer (1947–1948) | Andreas Gayk (1948–1954) | Walter Damm (1955–1965) | Jochen Steffen (1965–1975) | Günther Jansen (1975–1987) | Gerd Walter (1987–1991) | Willi Piecyk (1991-1999) | Franz Thönnes (1999–2003) | Claus Möller (2003-2007) | Ralf Stegner (2007–2019) | Serpil Midyatli (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thönnes, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |