Guido van den Berg
Guido van den Berg (born February 24, 1975 in Grevenbroich ; † May 2, 2019 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 2012 until his death he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Life and education
Guido van den Berg was born in Grevenbroich in 1975. After he attended the municipal high school in Bedburg from 1985 to 1994 and graduated with the Abitur, he completed his community service in 1995 in the youth hostel in Bergen in Upper Bavaria.
Guido van den Berg was a graduate social scientist with a focus on "Politics and Economics". From 1995 to 2004 he studied economics at the University of Cologne and social sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
From 2004 to 2007 he worked as a commercial clerk in a management consultancy. Then Guido van den Berg worked from 2008 to 2010 as a speaker for Franz Müntefering in the German Bundestag in Berlin. After the change of government in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010, he worked in the ministerial office of the Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia until he moved into the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Van den Berg died on May 2, 2019 after a serious illness. He last lived in Bedburg with his wife and two children .
Functions in the SPD
Since February 11, 1992, Guido van den Berg was a member of the SPD. Initially, he held various positions with the Jusos (including as the local chairman of the Jusos Bedburg and as the deputy district chairman of the Jusos Erftkreis ). From 1996 to 2002 he was chairman of the SPD city association Bedburg. From February to May 2001 Guido van den Berg took part in the social democratic communal academy of the Federal SPD and the Federal SGK. From November 10, 2001 to December 6, 2003, he was deputy chairman of the Erftkreis SPD. Since December 6, 2003 he was chairman of the Rhein-Erft SPD (the renamed SPD sub-district Erftkreis). From May 13, 2006 to December 9, 2009 Guido van den Berg was a member of the party council of the Federal SPD. From 2007 to 2009 he belonged to the leadership academy of the SPD, in which a total of 42 people nationwide were trained for leadership tasks. Since 2010 he has been a member of the regional board of the SPD-Mittelrhein.
Public offices
In 1999 Guido van den Berg was elected to the city council of Bedburg and the district council of the Rhein-Erft district . On May 31, 2014, he resigned from the Bedburg City Council. From March 13, 2002 to June 10, 2014, he was deputy chairman of the SPD district parliamentary group in the Rhein-Erft district. From 2002 to 2004 he was deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group in the City Council of Bedburg. From 2004 to 2009 he was chairman of the committee for district development planning of the Rhein-Erft district. He was a member of the regional council of the Cologne district government from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2009. In 2005 and 2010 he was the SPD candidate for the state election in constituency 5 (Rhein-Erft-Kreis I) for Bedburg, Bergheim, Elsdorf and Pulheim; he was defeated by Jürgen Rüttgers ( CDU ). In the new election of the state parliament on May 13, 2012, Guido van den Berg won the constituency 5 (Bedburg, Bergheim, Elsdorf, Pulheim) directly with 43.74%.
Since May 21, 2012 he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Here he was a member of the Interior Committee and the Committee on Economy, Energy, Industry, Medium-Sized Enterprises and Crafts. Since April 1, 2013, he was a member of the Enquete Commission on the future of the chemical industry in North Rhine-Westphalia, in which he was the spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group.
Since June 25, 2014 he was deputy district administrator of the Rhein-Erft district.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Guido van den Berg passed away. In: land.nrw. May 3, 2019, accessed May 3, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berg, Guido van den |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grevenbroich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd May 2019 |
| Place of death | Grevenbroich |