Harald Schartau

Harald Schartau (* 18th March 1953 in Duisburg ) is a German politician of the SPD . From 2002 until the change of government after the state elections on May 22, 2005, he was Minister of Economics and Labor for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 2009 to the end of 2018 he was Labor Director at Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH .

Life

Schartau initially worked as a chemical laboratory assistant and later as a clerk in human resources management at Mannesmann AG in Duisburg-Hüttenheim (formerly the municipality of Huckingen ). From 1971 to 1972 he graduated from the Dortmund Social Academy . In 1973 he attended the School of Economics and Politics in Hamburg on the study, from which he graduated in 1976 with a degree in business administration.

After completing his studies, Schartau worked as a youth education officer at the DGB state district of North Rhine-Westphalia (1977–1978). He then worked for IG Metall from 1978 to 2000 , initially as a clerk on the IG Metall board in Frankfurt am Main (until 1984), later as district secretary in Essen and Dortmund (until 1992), then as head of the Dortmund district ( until 1996). From 1997 to 2000 he was head of the IG Metall district of North Rhine-Westphalia.

After the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2000 , Schartau was appointed Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, Qualifications and Technology on June 27, 2000 ( Clement II cabinet ).

In the medium term, Schartau was to succeed Wolfgang Clement as Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. When he moved to Berlin as “super minister” for economics and work after the federal election in 2002 , Schartau was unable to take office as prime minister. The reason was a peculiarity of the North Rhine-Westphalian state constitution , which stipulates that the Prime Minister must be a member of the state parliament, which Schartau was not at the time.

On December 15, 2001, he was elected to succeed Franz Müntefering as the state chairman of the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia. From February 2002 he was a member of the Commission for Modern Services on the Labor Market ( Hartz Commission ). He was a member of the 11th and 12th Federal Assemblies for the election of the Federal President.

On November 12, 2002, Schartau was appointed Minister for Economics and Labor in the state government ( Steinbrück Cabinet ) by Peer Steinbrück , who had since risen to become Prime Minister . From 11/2002 to 5/2005 he was chairman of the administrative board of NRW.Bank. In the 2005 state elections , Schartau was directly elected to the state parliament with 47.8% of the votes in the Dortmund III state electoral district (Scharnhorst, Brackel and Aplerbeck districts), but his party lost the election. Therefore Schartau resigned from his ministerial office on June 28, 2005.

After losing the state elections, the state executive announced on May 25, 2005 that it would resign. At the same time, Schartau declared that he did not want to run again for the office of state chairman at the extraordinary party congress on July 9, 2005. His successor in office was the former North Rhine-Westphalian Finance Minister Jochen Dieckmann .

Schartau was a member of the budget and finance committee and chairman of the German-Chinese parliamentary group of the state parliament. On December 31, 2008, he resigned from his state parliament mandate. From January 1, 2009 Schartau was Labor Director and Managing Director Human Resources at Georgsmarienhütte GmbH . On January 1, 2010, Schartau was promoted to the management of Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH . He held this position as managing director and labor director of the GMH Group until the end of 2018. From 2011 to the end of 2018, Schartau was the spokesman for the labor directors of the iron and steel industry. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Saar Montan Foundation .

On December 7, 2012, Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft awarded him the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Schartau is involved in the Presidium of the International Federation (IB) and as an ambassador for Friedensdorf International . He has lived in Osnabrück since 2009.

Fonts

Klaus Kost, Harald Schartau (Ed.): We in the Revier. Steps into the other future on the Rhine and Ruhr. With a foreword by Franz Steinkühler . Sp-Verlag, Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-924800-76-6 .
Harald Schartau: Job through low wages plus subsidy? in: Will. Yearbook for the German trade unions, 2002/2003, 45th year, Frankfurt am Main 2002.
Norbert Bensel, Jobst Fiedler, Heinz Fischer, Peter Gasse, Werner Jann, Harald Schartau, Hanns-Eberhard Schleyer, Günter Schmid, Wolfgang Tiefensee, Eggert Voscherau, Peter Hartz (edit.): Modern services on the labor market: Proposals by the commission to reduce the Unemployment and the restructuring of the Federal Labor Office. Commission "Modern Services on the Labor Market", Lahr 2002.