Gerd Andres

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Gerd Andres (left) with Dietmar Schulz (2005)

Gerd Andres (born April 8, 1951 in Wirges in the Westerwald ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

From 1998 to 2002 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, from 2002 to 2005 at the Federal Minister for Economics and Labor and from 2005 to 2007 at the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs.

Life

After attending primary school, Andres completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter with a subsequent skilled worker examination . In the evening school he acquired the technical college entrance qualification . From 1972 to 1973 he did his community service at the AWO . From 1974 to 1998 he was secretary to the main board of the chemical, paper, ceramic union and from 1981 to 1987 head of the education department.

Gerd Andres is married and has three children.

Political party

Andres has been a member of the SPD since 1968. From 1976 to 1977 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the Jusos . From 1988 to 1998 he was a member of the federal executive committee of the Working Group for Employee Issues (AfA) of the SPD.

MP

From 1987 to 2009 Andres was a member of the German Bundestag as a Hanoverian MP . From 1988 to 1998 he was a member of the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group . From 1997 to 1998 he was also the social policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group.

Gerd Andres has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Hannover I. In the 2005 Bundestag election , he achieved 52.9% of the first votes . Andres did not run again for the 2009 Bundestag election. His party nominated Kerstin Tack as a constituency candidate in his previous constituency on December 12, 2008 . In the 2009 federal election , Tack was able to win the direct mandate for the SPD again.

Public offices

After the 1998 federal election , Gerd Andres was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the federal government led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( Schröder I cabinet ). After the federal election in 2002 , this ministry was merged with the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Andres was therefore appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Economics and Labor on October 22, 2002 ( Schröder II cabinet ).

After the federal election in 2005 , the departments were separated again and Andres was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs on November 23, 2005 ( Merkel I cabinet ). After the resignation of Federal Labor Minister Franz Müntefering , Andres left office on November 22, 2007.

Awards

On June 21, 2007 Gerd Andres was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his services to the common good . He received the award in particular because of his longstanding commitment to German-Turkish relations. For many years he also campaigned for the integration of migrants into the Federal Republic.

In 2009 Gerd Andres was made an honorary member of the German Parliamentary Society .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n.v . : Gerd Andres Dr. hc on the page spdfraktion.de [ undated ], last accessed on December 19, 2018
  2. ^ SPD candidates from Hanover for the 2009 Bundestag election. Accessed April 19, 2009 .
  3. ↑ On the person , report in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from December 16, 2009, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Andres, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Wirges , Westerwald