Hans-Christoff Dees

Hans-Christoff Dees (born October 18, 1965 in De Bilt , Netherlands ) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and a former member of the Hamburg parliament .

Life

Dees attended school in France , Belgium and Hamburg , where he also graduated from high school. After training as a chemical-technical assistant, he studied at the universities in Hamburg and Sydney to become a qualified industrial engineer . Until 2010 he worked for the Danish medical device company Coloplast as European Distribution Director. Since the end of 2010 he has worked as Operations Director at Dedon GmbH .

In addition, from 1984 to 1994 he was a paramedic, training manager and on-call manager at Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe .

He is married and has two children.

politics

He has been a member of the SPD since 1983. From 1994 to 1996 he was the spokesman for the Hamburg Jusos and a member of the state board of the Hamburg SPD. From 1998 to 2000 district chairman of the SPD Flottbek , from 2000 to 2004 district chairman of the SPD Altona and again member of the SPD state executive committee .

From 2000 to 2004 Dees was a deputy of the Hamburg tax authorities. From 2004 to 2008 Dees was a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

There he was labor market policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group and u. a. responsible for parliamentary support for the introduction of Hartz IV in Hamburg. He represented his parliamentary group in the budget committee, the construction and transport committee, the economic committee and the Hartz IV subcommittee, of which he was spokesman.

An interesting controversy in the context of federalism ended the work of the subcommittee in 2005. With the introduction of Hartz IV, the Federal Employment Agency was legally obliged (SGBII §6, §44b) to form working groups (ARGE) with the municipalities to look after the long-term unemployed (As a city-state, Hamburg acts simultaneously as a municipality and a federal state). Against this background, Dees regularly invited representatives of the leading Hamburg authority for economy and labor as well as the Hamburg management of the federal agency to report during the introductory phase. When problems emerged in the committee with the introduction of Hartz IV, the head of the Hamburg Federal Agency publicly complained about critical inquiries from the parliamentarians under the chairman of Dees. Finally he stopped the participation of his authority in the subcommittee, since his authority was accountable only to the Bundestag but not to the Hamburg state parliament. Thus, the subcommittee (legislative) was deprived of the ground for parliamentary control of a highly sensitive and publicly highly controversial reform project to be implemented by the executive by a federal authority (executive). Dees then dissolved the subcommittee later that year.

Later, the second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in its judgment of December 20, 2007 that the joint performance of tasks by the federal government and the municipality on which the ARGE is based is incompatible with Article 83 of the Basic Law and that the Hartz IV Act is unconstitutional on this point.

Since 2008 Dees has been a deputy of the Department of Economics and Labor or the Department of Economics, Transport and Innovation and a member of the personnel committee.

Web links

• Hans-Christoff Dees on parliamentwatch.de
• Hamburger Abendblatt February 17, 2005 [1]
• (18th electoral term, author: Hartz IV subcommittee)
• Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of December 20, 2007 [2]