Gerhard Rübenkönig

Gerhard Rübenkönig (born September 24, 1942 in Heckershausen ) is a former German politician (SPD) . From 1994 to 2005 he was a member of the German Bundestag for three electoral terms .

Life

Rübenkönig attended elementary school and then trained as a machine fitter in Kassel. Through the second educational path he reached the technical college entrance qualification and studied the subject of production engineering. After further training, he finally became a production engineer at Mercedes-Benz, where he started as a production planner in 1964. In 1978 he ultimately became production manager there.

politics

Rübenkönig joined IG Metall in 1958 and was its youth representative and member of the works council at AEG from 1960 to 1966, where he had completed his training. In 1969 he joined the SPD and in 1984 became the first chairman of the Heckershausen local association. After several local political posts, he was elected to the German Bundestag for the constituency of Kassel in the 1994 federal election. In the thirteenth term he was a full member of the Post and Telecommunications Committee and in the fourteenth member of the Budget Committee. In the 1998 and 2002 elections he was re-elected as a direct candidate for his constituency. He was chairman of the auditing committee of the German Bundestag and chairman of the Transrapid parliamentary discussion group . In 2005 it left the Bundestag.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 707-708.

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag