Grant Hendrik Ton

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Grant Hendrik Tonne (2018)

Grant Hendrik Tonne (born June 22, 1976 in Bad Oeynhausen ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He is a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament and has been Lower Saxony's minister of education since 2017.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1995 in Petershagen , Tonne completed a law degree at the University of Bremen , which he completed with the first state examination in law. After completing his legal clerkship , he also passed the second state examination. He then worked as an independent lawyer in Stolzenau until 2017 .

Ton is married and has four children.

Political party

Tonne joined the SPD and the Jusos in 1996 and was chairman of the Juso sub-district of Nienburg / Weser from 1999 to 2002 and from 2006 to 2007 . He has been a member of the board of the SPD sub-district Nienburg since 1999.

MP

Tonne has been a member of the Leese municipal council since 1996, and since 2001 also the council of the Landesbergen municipality and the district council of the Nienburg district . In the district council he was chairman of the committee for vocational schools and deputy district council chairman.

In the state elections in 2008 , 2013 and 2017 Tonne ran for the SPD in the constituency of Nienburg / Schaumburg and on the SPD state list . Although he was defeated by the CDU candidate Karsten Heineking in each constituency , he entered parliament in 2008 and 2013 via the state list. He was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 2008 to 2017. From 2013 to 2017 he was parliamentary managing director of the SPD state parliamentary group. When the SPD won numerous direct seats in the state elections in 2017, the state list did not move, so Tonne left the state parliament as a member. On April 23, 2020, it moved to Dirk Adomat , who after his election as district administrator of the district Hameln-Pyrmont had waived his parliamentary mandate in the Landtag.

Public offices

Tonne was initially deputy mayor of the Leese community from 2001 until he was elected honorary mayor in 2006. He resigned in June 2018.

After the state elections in 2017, he became minister of culture in the second Weil cabinet .

Web links

Commons : Grant Hendrik Tonne  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Andretta (Ed.), Department for Press, Public Relations, Protocol: Lower Saxony State Parliament. Handbook of the Lower Saxony Parliament of the 18th electoral period. 2017 to 2022 , 1st edition, Hanover: Lower Saxony State Parliament, 2018, p. 169
  2. ^ The Lower Saxony Minister of Education, Grant Hendrik Tonne , accessed on February 4, 2020
  3. ↑ Henning Olthage has been the new mayor of Leese since June 26th on the website of the Samtgemeinde Mittelweser, accessed on July 19, 2019
  4. ↑ [url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180818141233/http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/landtagswahl_2017/GroKo-Die-Vernunft-Ehe-von-Hannover,groko178.html GroKo : Die Vernunft-Ehe von Hannover] on ndr.de from November 17, 2017, accessed on July 19, 2019 (archived version)
personal data
SURNAME Tonne, Grant Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Oeynhausen