Heiner Garg

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Heinrich Garg (2013)

Heinrich "Heiner" Garg (born February 9, 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German politician ( FDP ). He has been a member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament since 2000 and has been the second Deputy Prime Minister and again Minister for Social Affairs, Health, Youth, Family and Seniors of Schleswig-Holstein in the Günther cabinet since June 28, 2017 .

From 2009 to 2012 he held this office as State Minister for Labor, Social Affairs and Health and Deputy Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein in the Carstensen II cabinet . From 2003 to 2009 Garg was also deputy chairman and from 2012 to 2017 parliamentary managing director of the Schleswig-Holstein FDP parliamentary group. Since 2011 he has been the regional chairman of the FDP Schleswig-Holstein .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1985, Garg completed a degree in economics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , which he completed in 1991 with a degree in economics . He then worked as a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Monetary Economics and Finance II at the University of Freiburg and received his doctorate there to the Dr. rer. pole. with the work “ need for long-term care” as an object of economic security policy - financial and regulatory aspects of a legal protection of the long-term care risk .

In 1995 he became a research assistant to the FDP parliamentary group in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament and worked there until he moved in as a member of the state parliament for the first time in 2000. Garg lives with his partner in Kiel .

Political party

Garg joined the FDP in 1990 and has been a member of the board of the Kiel district association since 1996, and was elected its deputy chairman in 1999. From 2001 to 2010 he was chairman of the district association. Since 2011 he has been the state chairman of his party in Schleswig-Holstein .

Electoral and government offices

Garg has been a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament since the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2000 and since then has always entered parliament via the FDP state list . He also ran for election in the Kiel-Nord state electoral district , where he received 4.2% of the first votes in 2012 and 6.7% in 2017, after receiving 8.7% of the first votes in the 2009 state election in the Kiel-East state electoral district . Initially he was a member of the Social Committee and from January 2003 to October 2009 also a member of the Finance Committee and deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. After the state elections in 2005 he was able to continue his work in the social committee and also got a seat on the economic committee.

With the formation of a CDU / FDP coalition as a result of the state elections in 2009 , Prime Minister Carstensen appointed him as State Minister for Labor, Social Affairs and Health and as Deputy Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein on October 27, 2009 . When Albig took office after the state election on June 12, 2012, he held the office of parliamentary director of the FDP state parliamentary group. Garg became a member of the finance committee and in 2013 also a member of the special committee "Constitutional Reform".

After the formation of a Jamaica coalition of CDU, FDP and the Greens in the wake of the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2017 , he was appointed second deputy prime minister and again minister for social affairs, health, youth, family and senior citizens on June 28, 2017 and is part of it the state government Günther .

Web links

Commons : Heiner Garg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Heiner Garg  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiner Garg . At munzinger.de, accessed on January 22, 2017
  2. ↑ “One does not talk about it” . On March 16, 2014 in Lübecker Nachrichten ( Online . At gay-and-gray.de, accessed on January 23, 2017; PDF , approx. 7 MB)
  3. ↑ Statistical Reports No. 182 - The election to the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament on February 20, 2005 in the state capital Kiel - Official final result , p. 2. On kiel.de, accessed on January 22, 2017 ( PDF , approx. 2.4 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Garg, Heiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garg, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau