Gustav Herzog
Gustav Herzog (born October 11, 1958 in Harxheim , now Zellertal ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and chemical laboratory assistant. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998 .
Life and work
After completing secondary school in 1974, Herzog trained as a chemical laboratory assistant and then worked in this profession until 1987. He then moved to the constituency office of Horst Sielaff , then member of the Bundestag , where he worked until his own election to the Bundestag in 1998.
Herzog is a Protestant , married and has two children.
Political party
Herzog has been a member of the SPD since 1975 and has been chairman of the SPD sub-district in Donnersberg since 1991 . In 1978 he was a founding member of the Zellertal local association and its chairman from 1986 to 1999.
MP
Herzog has been a member of the municipal council in his home town of Zellertal since 1984 . From 1989 to 1999 he was also chairman of the SPD parliamentary group . In addition, from 1984 to 1989 he was a member of the council of the Göllheim community and of the district assembly of the Donnersbergkreis .
Herzog has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998 and has been spokesman for the Rhineland-Palatinate regional group in the SPD parliamentary group since 2005 . He is currently a full member of the Transport and Digital Infrastructure Committee and the Digital Agenda Committee. He is also a deputy member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture and the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment . He is also a member of the Commission of the Council of Elders for Information and Communication Technology.
In 1998 , Herzog moved to the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Frankenthal constituency . Since 2002 he has been directly elected to represent the constituency of Kaiserslautern , which includes the city of Kaiserslautern , the northern part of the Kaiserslautern district as well as the Donnersberg district and the Kusel district. In the 2005 Bundestag election , he received 44.2% of the first votes in his constituency and 34.6% in 2009 . Besides Klaus Hagemann, he was the only directly elected representative of the Rhineland-Palatinate SPD in the Bundestag. In the federal election in 2013 , he won the direct mandate with 38.5% in the Kaiserslautern constituency as the only SPD candidate from the southern federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Saarland.
Public offices
From 1999 to 2004, Herzog was honorary mayor of his home town of Zellertal.
Memberships
Herzog has been a member of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union since 1976 . He is a member of the German-South American and the German-Belarusian parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. He is also a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany, which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.
Initiatives
Herzog's region of origin, the Zellertal , belongs to the Palatinate wine-growing region . In 2002 he was co-initiator of the Parliamentary Wine Forum , a non-partisan initiative by members of the Bundestag that recommends offering German wine at official events . Since the forum was re-established in 2014, Herzog has been the coordinator.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f About me. Gustav Herzog's website, accessed November 6, 2018 .
- ^ Members of the Committee on Food and Agriculture ( Memento from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) bundestag.de , online, accessed on September 18, 2014.
- ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Gustav Herzog. In: Website of the Europa-Union Germany. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Weinforum is newly founded. Markus Tressel MdB, accessed on November 6, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duke, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harxheim , now Zellertal |