Garrelt Duin

Garrelt Duin, 2014

Garrelt Duin [ ɡaʁəlt dyːn ] (born April 2, 1968 in Leer ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2005 to 2010 he was state chairman of the SPD Lower Saxony and from 2012 to 2017 Minister for Economic Affairs, Energy, Industry, SMEs and Crafts of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life and work

After graduating from the Johannes-Althusius-Gymnasium in Emden in 1987 , Duin began studying law and Protestant theology in Bielefeld and Göttingen , which he completed in 1995 with the first state examination and in 1998 with the second state examination . In 1998 he was admitted to the bar. Garrelt Duin is married, has a son and lives in Essen-Werden .

Since March 1, 2018, he has worked for Thyssenkrupp as Head of Human Resources for the Industrial Solutions plant construction division. On September 28, 2018, he became chairman of the supervisory board of Stadtwerke Köln .

He is not related to the former Bavarian FDP state chairman Albert Duin .

Political party

Garrelt Duin joined the SPD during his school days. From 1993 he was a member of the executive board of the SPD district Weser-Ems and was its chairman from 2002 to 2010. From 2001 to 2011 he was a member of the SPD party executive and from November 2005 to May 2010 chairman of the SPD Lower Saxony .

When the SPD party executive voted in February 2008 to open up to the left , Duin received the only opposing vote. On January 29, 2010, Duin announced that from May he would no longer be available for the post of regional and district chairman, as he wanted to concentrate more on his work in the Bundestag.

MP

Garrelt Duin drawing up the SPD state list of Lower Saxony for the 2009 federal election.

From 1996 to 2006 Duin was a member of the Hinte community council . In October 2000 Duin replaced the deceased member of the European Parliament Günter Lüttge . In the 2004 European elections he was re-elected to the European Parliament. He resigned after being elected to the Bundestag in 2005 . For him moved Matthias Groote into by the EU Parliament.

From 2005 to 2012 Duin was a directly elected member of the Aurich - Emden constituency of the German Bundestag. In the 2005 Bundestag elections he achieved 58.3% of the first votes , and 44.4% in the 2009 Bundestag elections . Duin thus achieved the best first vote result of the Lower Saxony SPD. In the 17th electoral term, i. H. from 2009, he was economic policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group and one of three spokesmen for the conservative Seeheimer Kreis .

On June 21, 2012, Duin resigned from the Bundestag to become Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia. The successor Gabriele Groneberg took over his mandate .

Public offices

On June 21, 2012, Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft appointed Duin Minister for Economic Affairs, Energy, Industry, SMEs and Crafts of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Kraft II cabinet ).

From 2014 to 2016, as a member of the state government, he was also a full member of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste (Repository Commission) according to Section 3 of the Site Selection Act .

On July 22, 2019, Garrelt Duin was unanimously elected as general manager of the Chamber of Crafts in Cologne by its general assembly and has been in office since mid-September 2019.

Positions

In July 2012, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia or Duin, as the new economics minister, demanded nationwide compensation for the costs of the energy transition . Shortly before, the state of Bavaria had announced a lawsuit against the state financial equalization scheme (total volume in 2011: 7.3 billion euros).

At that time, federal states like Bavaria benefited extraordinarily from the subsidies for solar and wind power plants. Duin said: "It cannot be that households in North Rhine-Westphalia have to pay for the flood of solar systems on Bavarian roofs almost alone". According to BDEW information, around 17 billion euros were moved in 2011 via the EEG levy system; In 2011, a net 1.1 billion euros flowed to Bavaria from the EEG system.

Honors

• 2017: Badge of Honor of the West German Chamber of Crafts

literature

• Garrelt Duin , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 40/2012 from October 2, 2012, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Garrelt Duin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Minister Garrelt Duin , website of the NRW Ministry of Economic Affairs.
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Entry on Garrelt Duin in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
• Garrelt Duin on parliamentwatch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ex-NRW Economics Minister changes to Thyssen-Krupp handelsblatt.com, February 15, 2018
2. ↑ Large majority for Garrelt Duin ksta.de, September 29, 2018
3. ↑ Marion Luppen: The new head of the Bavarian FDP is called Duin. In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung , November 27, 2013.
4. ^ SPD: Lower Saxony's head of state Garrelt Duin is stopping. In: Focus Online , January 29, 2010.
5. ↑ Former speakers. ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Seeheimer-Kreis.de .
6. ↑ Retired MPs and their successors. In: Bundestag.de . Archived version from December 12, 2013 for the 17th Bundestag.
7. ↑ https://www.bundestag.de/blob/434430/35fc29d72bc9a98ee71162337b94c909/drs_268-data.pdf , page 550
8. ↑ Situation, perspectives for action, strategic decision-making options at the University of Cologne from the perspective of selected stakeholders . In: Foreign students at the University of Cologne . Nomos, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8452-5673-3 , pp. 20-45 , doi : 10.5771 / 9783845256733_20 .
9. ↑ Thomas Reisener: Minister outraged: NRW pays for the energy transition. In: Rheinische Post , July 23, 2012.