Hendrik Wüst

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Hendrik Wüst (2019)

Hendrik Josef Wüst (born July 19, 1975 in Rhede , Westphalia ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and has been Minister of Transport for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia since June 30, 2017 .

biography

Wüst grew up in Rhede and went to the Ludgerus elementary school there before moving to the Euregio-Gymnasium in neighboring Bocholt , where he graduated from high school in 1995. He is Catholic, studied law and passed the first state examination in 2000 and the second in 2003 . Since then he has been a licensed attorney. He completed his legal clerkship in Münster, Coesfeld and Brussels, among others.

From 2000 to 2005 he worked for the management consultancy Eutop in Berlin, from 2004 as their in-house counsel and authorized representative. From November 18, 2010, Wüst was managing director of the regional association of German newspaper publishers in North Rhine-Westphalia (ZVNRW) and Pressefunk GmbH and, from 2014 to 2017, also managing director of dein.fm Holding.

politics

Hendrik Wüst with Henriette Reker , Birgit Bohle and Berthold Huber at the opening of the ICE maintenance depot Cologne-Nippes (February 2018)

In 1990 Wüst and friends founded the Junge Union in Rhede. In 1995 he became a city councilor in Rhede, in 1999 a member of the board of the CDU council group and the supervisory board of the public utilities in Rhede. In 1998 he made a political leap to the state level. From 1998 to 2000 he initially acted as state treasurer of the Junge Union NRW. From 2000 to November 2006 he was elected as the state chairman of this party group and thus at the same time a member of the state board of the CDU NRW and the district board of the CDU in Münsterland. From 2002 to 2012 he was a member of the CDU federal executive committee .

In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2005 , he was directly elected to the state parliament with 58.3 percent for the constituency of Borken I and was the youngest member of the CDU parliamentary group in this electoral period.

From 2006 to 2010 Wüst was Secretary General of the NRW CDU. After the resignation of Hans-Joachim Reck , he initially took over the office and was officially confirmed in office on September 16, 2006 in Münster with 89.4 percent of the votes.

In December 2009, Wüst was accused of having received inadmissible subsidies for his private health insurance and long-term care insurance from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since April 2006 . Wüst stated that a letter on this matter had “simply not addressed him as a privately insured person” . It then turned out that Wüst was by no means an isolated case. Since 1994 there have been a total of 20 cases in which MPs have not reported subsidies from the employer or reported too late to the NRW state parliament. They all had to repay the excess money they received, in Wüst's case it was 6,100 euros. As a consequence of these cases, the state parliament has specified the law on representatives.

Wüst assumed political responsibility for the affair surrounding letters from the NRW CDU , in which various sponsors were offered meetings with Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers for a fee, and on February 22, 2010, he announced his resignation.

After he had again won his constituency in the state election on May 9, 2010 (with 49.6 percent), the members of the CDU state parliamentary group elected him their economic policy spokesman. From 2010 to 2017 the CDU was in the opposition in NRW . In the North Rhine-Westphalian state elections in May 2012 , Wüst received 45.8 percent, and in May 2017 52.9 percent of the first votes.

Since 2013, Wüst has been the state chairman of the CDU / CSU's SME and Economic Union in North Rhine-Westphalia.

On June 30, 2017, Prime Minister Armin Laschet appointed Hendrik Wüst as Minister of Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in his cabinet for the 17th electoral term .

Political positions

Guest contribution Handelsblatt "The CDU must end its dispute over the direction"

In September 2018, Wüst in the Handelsblatt called on the CDU, after months of arguments, to work on being a future party again. A new basic program of the CDU would be an opportunity to underline the party's future aspirations. Wüst demands: " The CDU shouldn't dwell much longer on the question of whether it is now center or center-right or somewhere else. It should decide to be a party to the future and to inspire the future. " And sees the need for one Positioning u. a. in the field of digitization: " There are also many questions that could come under the big heading of digitization, but each one is exciting in itself and requires a Christian-Democratic answer. "

Name contribution Rheinische Post "Plea for the social market economy and against the interests of Anglo-Saxon financial investors"

In August 2018, Wüst criticized the sometimes rude methods of so-called activist Anglo-Saxon financial investors in a name post in the Rheinische Post and considers them to be a danger to the social market economy. Among other things, he explains: " The consensus-oriented model of the social market economy is opposed to sheer shareholder capitalism. [...] The social market economy is the basis of our prosperity in Germany. It has helped broad sections of the population to gain economic growth and to participate in a wide variety of ways. We have to do something against financial investors and funds. "

Resolution MIT NRW "Growth digital - bits and bytes and jobs"

As the state chairman of the medium-sized and business association of the CDU NRW, Wüst adopted a position paper at the association's 17th state delegate assembly in 2014 that deals with the effects of digitization: The digitization of many areas of life and business is taking place almost independently of whether it is politics want or not. But politics can invest in infrastructure so that as many people, regions and industries as possible can participate in the development. [...] As a strong industrial and commercial location, North Rhine-Westphalia is also challenged by digitalization. Industry 4.0 and Economy 4.0 must take place here in the heart of Germany as an industrial location. For this, the development of digitization must be high on the agenda of North Rhine-Westphalian politics. "

Position paper "Modern bourgeois conservatism"

At the end of 2007, Wüst wrote together with Markus Söder (Member of the Bundestag and CSU General Secretary at the time), Philipp Missfelder (Member of the Bundestag and Federal Chairman of the Young Union of Germany) and Stefan Mappus (Member of the Bundestag and Chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg and deputy state chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg) a position paper entitled Modern Bourgeois Conservatism - Why the Union has to think more about its roots again .

In contrast to the liberal and the social roots of the Union, they saw the third, the bourgeois-conservative, not equally weighted and too “ pushed into the background because the grand coalition is forcing too many compromises. A visible accentuation of its bourgeois-conservative roots is of central importance for the majority of the Union. "

“If the Union wants to achieve over 40 percent in this election [Bundestag election 2009] , it needs the political center. Above all, however, it must mobilize its regular voters. In order to achieve this goal, it must also remain a political home for patriots, staunch Christians and value-conscious conservatives. There must be no democratically legitimized party to the right of the Union. "

Other engagement

  • TV roadstead
  • DJV, German Hunting Protection Association
  • Förderverein Fähre - Rat u. Help for the mentally ill and their relatives, Roadstead
  • Member of the Friends of the Stasi Prison Memorial in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen

Web links

Commons : Hendrik Wüst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hendrik Wüst private / homepage
  2. ↑ a b Portrait of the week: Hendrik Wüst (CDU). Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Brief bio at the CDU party executive
  4. ↑ Hendrik Wüst. Personal details:, bundesrat.de (accessed on February 10, 2020)
  5. ↑ Short bio at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
  6. ↑ s. CDU NRW Aktuell, Edition 12/2006 - March 24, 2006
  7. ↑ Junge Union Münster March 24, 2006: JU Münster congratulates Hendrik Wüst
  8. ^ Die Welt-Online March 26, 2006: Rüttgers brings in the boss of the Junge Union
  9. ^ Kölner Stadtanzeiger September 17, 2006: Wüst is Rüttger's backing
  10. ↑ Tagesspiegel November 30, 2009: Hendrik Wüst. CDU politician in NRW regrets mistakes
  11. ↑ Der Westen December 11, 2009: Criminal complaint: Public prosecutor does not want to investigate Wüst
  12. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung December 12, 2009: CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia. False start in the election campaign ( Memento from December 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ s. as an example, Rheinische Post December 12, 2009: parliamentary group leader pays 17,500 euros back ( Memento from December 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Rheinische Post December 15, 2009: SPD MPs also received excessive grants ( Memento from December 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Law of Representatives ( Memento of November 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ^ Spiegel Online February 22, 2010: Offer to sponsors: NRW-CDU sells appointments with Rüttgers
  17. ↑ NRW-CDU-General resigns ( Memento from February 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Hendrik Wüst (CDU) wins by a clear margin ( Memento from May 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ^ Member of the state parliament. In: hendrik-wuest.de. June 29, 2016, accessed March 12, 2019 .
  20. ↑ www.wahlresults.nrw.de
  21. ^ MIT NRW - medium-sized and business association of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved October 30, 2018 (German).
  22. ↑ On the person . In: Hendrik Wüst . May 23, 2016 ( hendrik-wuest.de [accessed October 30, 2018]).
  23. ↑ www.wdr.de
  24. ↑ Guest comment: The Union must end its dispute over direction. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Hendrik Wüst: Guest contribution: The alarm bells are ringing at Thyssenkrupp. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  26. ^ MIT NRW - medium-sized and business association of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  27. ^ Originally, the chairmen of the CDU parliamentary groups in Lower Saxony and Rhineland-Palatinate, David McAllister and Christian Baldauf , also worked. However, both later distanced each other. Welt-Online July 15, 2007: Young generation relies on modern conservatism
  28. ↑ a b c The documentation: Modern bourgeois conservatism - Why the Union has to think more about its roots again
  29. ↑ Der West September 6, 2007: Profile on the left, counter on the right
personal data
SURNAME Wüst, Hendrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wüst, Hendrik Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Rhede , Westphalia