Herbert Behrens

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Herbert Behrens (born May 30, 1954 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck ) is a German trade unionist and politician of the Die Linke party . From 2009 to 2017 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

Herbert Behrens was born the fourth of five children to a working-class family. After completing secondary school in 1970, he began an apprenticeship as a typesetter and participated in the citizens' initiative "Garlstedter Heide". Then he joined the German Communist Party (DKP), of which he remained a member until 1989. In 1972 he joined the IG Druck und Papier and did voluntary work there. In 1981 he and other parents set up a day nursery due to a lack of childcare. In 1982 Behrens passed the non-high school diploma . In the course of his studies in social science, he dealt with the digitization of society. In 2002 he finished his studies with his diploma thesis “Endless Work? New forms of exposure through indirect control in modern industry ”. He then worked at ver.di as a union secretary in the field of media, art and industry. Herbert Behrens is married and has one son.

politics

When the social justice alternative (WASG) was founded in 2005, he was one of its co-founders in the Osterholz district. In the local elections in 2006, Behrens was elected to the city council of his hometown Osterholz-Scharmbeck for the first time. In 2011 he moved back to the city council, where he is chairman of the DIE LINKE parliamentary group. Since 2008 he has been a member of the Lower Saxony state executive committee of the party.

In 2009 he entered the Bundestag as one of six Lower Saxony candidates for his party. In the 17th electoral term he was a full member of the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development, the New Media subcommittee and a deputy member of the Committee on Health and the Committee on Culture and Media. He also worked on the Internet and Digital Society Enquete Commission. In the election in September 2013, Behrens again moved into the Bundestag via the Lower Saxony state list for the party Die Linke.

He was chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group in the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure, a member of the Digital Agenda Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. Behrens was also a member of the Committee for Low German and a member of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference.

On February 7, 2015, he was elected to the Lower Saxony state executive committee, Die Linke. From February 2015 to March 2017 he was state chairman of the party.

Herbert Behrens set a political focus on transport policy, in which he calls for a “ socio-ecological transport turnaround ”. Another focus was the digital infrastructure of the Federal Republic. Behrens called for the expansion of broadband connections to be accelerated. In addition, peace policy is a key issue for Herbert Behrens. He calls for NATO and the Bundeswehr to be abolished and for civil conflict resolution to be the focus of state action.

Behrens sat for the Left in the committee of inquiry into the VW emissions scandal . He was elected chairman of the committee at its constituent meeting on July 7, 2016. In the 2017 federal election, Herbert Behrens ran as a direct candidate in constituency 34 (Osterholz-Verden); he was no longer elected to the state list by his party, so that he resigned from the Bundestag in 2017.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Exhaust gas committee begins its work. In: bundestag.de. July 2016, accessed September 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Bernhard Komesker: A direct mandate and eight candidates . ( weser-kurier.de [accessed on August 11, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Behrens, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (Die Linke), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterholz-Scharmbeck