Jörg Detjen

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Jörg Christian Detjen (born August 3, 1953 in Schwerin ) is a Cologne politician. He has been a member of the Council of the City of Cologne for the PDS and Die Linke since 1999 and is a candidate for the mayoral elections in 2020.

Life

Professional

Jörg Detjen grew up in Osnabrück and completed an apprenticeship as a printer there after graduating from school . In the following years he worked in this profession in various places. He has lived in Cologne since 1980, where he did a second apprenticeship as a publishing clerk.

Engagement in K groups

Detjen belonged to the Communist Federation of West Germany (KBW) founded in 1973 as " Secretary of the Osnabrück Local Line" and was a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the KBW. He ran for the KBW several times in elections in various constituencies and in first place on the Lower Saxony state list , for example in the 1976 federal election in Osnabrück constituency and in the 1980 federal election in Hanover I constituency . When the organization split in the summer of 1980, he stood up the side of the Fochler parliamentary group, which founded the Bund Westdeutscher Kommunisten (BWK) in late summer of the year . From 1980 to 1995 he was the managing director of the Central Committee of the BWK. Professionally, he had close ties to the Bund West German Communists from 1980 through his work as an employee, from 1994 managing director of the party publisher GNN

Local politician and councilor in Cologne

Jörg Detjen has been a member of the PDS since 1992, for which he has been represented with a seat in the Council of the City of Cologne since 1999, and since 2005 as parliamentary group leader of the Die Linke parliamentary group . At times the parliamentary group worked closely with the red-green council alliance.

In 2005 he also stood as a candidate for the Bundestag elections in the Cologne III constituency .

Detjen at "Cologne turns across" 2015

From 2004 to 2009 Detjen was represented for his party in the Rhineland Regional Assembly, since 2009 he has been a member of the supervisory board of the municipal utilities group and since July 2014 chairman of the auditing committee of the Cologne City Council.

In the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2020 , he will run as a candidate for mayor for his party. His election campaign topics include housing policy as well as ecological and social climate policy.

Detjen is active as a spokesman for the Cologne Alliance against racism and appears regularly as a registrant and meeting leader of demonstrations against the right. Together with Günter Wallraff and others, he campaigns for the release of Cologne residents from prison in Turkey, among them Hozan Canê and Adil Demirci .

Private

Jörg Detjen is married to Ulrike Detjen (born August 3, 1952 in Lage , nee Kirchhof), who was also active as a party politician for the KBW, BWK and Die Linke. Since 2003 she has been state chairman of the PDS in North Rhine-Westphalia together with Paul Schäfer and from October 2007 one year state spokeswoman for the party Die Linke in NRW together with Wolfgang Zimmermann . For her parliamentary group, she is a member of the Rhineland Regional Assembly in various committees.

Publications

  • [Editor: Jockel Detjen]: University of Osnabrück - part of the capitalist university reform , Osnabrück (Communist Student Union) [1976]
  • (responsible for editing): Red Table: Leftists in the FRG and GDR discuss the constitution; documented: Draft constitution of the round table for the GDR , Cologne: GNN-Verlag 1990 ISBN 3-926922-04-4
  • (responsible for editing): No vote for the right: neo-fascist local politics using the example of Cologne; Activities and smear campaigns of the German League and the Republicans , ed. from the Neofascism working group in the VVN-BdA , Cologne; Cologne: GNN-Verlag 1994 ISBN 3-926922-26-5

Web links

Commons : Jörg Detjen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Detjen: Questionable. Chance against corruption? In: neue-deutschland.de . March 13, 2002, accessed September 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Peter Schindler, Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1949 to 1999 , Baden-Baden (Nomos-Verlag) 1999, Volume 1, p. 90
  3. ↑ Politics Elections 2014. Rat Die Linke: Jörg Detjen, ( Memento from June 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Candidate profile for the 2014 city council election at report-k.de, accessed on January 2, 2016
  4. ^ Gerhard Voogt: "Kölschen Volksfront" as a model; Rheinische Post , July 19, 2007
  5. ^ The State Returning Officer of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Bundestag election 2005. Directory of applicants in North Rhine-Westphalia. Düsseldorf ( PDF; 353 kB ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ); P. 6 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / webshop.it.nrw.de
  6. ^ Michael Fuchs: Local elections: With wooden houses against housing shortages - Left wants to make election campaigns exciting. June 8, 2020, accessed on June 13, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ Bernd Wilberg: The steam goes on . In: StadtRevue . Cologne July 2020, p. 9 .
  8. ↑ Christian Steigels, Christian Werthschulte: "Many remain silent". On October 25th, Nazi hools want to march in Cologne again. An alliance calls for counter-demonstrations. (No longer available online.) In: Stadtrevue. October 2015, archived from the original on April 1, 2017 ; Retrieved April 1, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtrevue.de
  9. ↑ Helmut Frangenberg: Disagreement among the alliances . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne April 1, 2017, p. 27 .
  10. ↑ Successful democratic protest by thousands of Cologne residents against Kögida racists. January 5, 2015, accessed April 1, 2017 .
  11. ^ Adnan Akyüz: 1500 police officers on duty Nazi demo: Deutz is threatened with a state of emergency. In: express.de. DuMont Net GmbH & Co. KG, January 12, 2017, accessed April 1, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Cologne social worker released from Turkish custody. February 14, 2019, accessed July 12, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Uli Kreikebaum: family hopes to return from Hozan Cane; The highest Turkish court overturns the judgment against the Cologne singer . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . Cologne June 11, 2020, p. 28 .
  14. ↑ Pascal Beucker: The best come from the west . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 20, 2008, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 6 ( taz.de [accessed on July 12, 2020]).
  15. ^ LVR - Rhineland Regional Association. Retrieved July 12, 2020 .

Literature and Sources

  • Who is who in the Federal Republic of Germany: a personal encyclopedia [...]. Supplement work . XII. Edition 2006, p. 955
personal data
SURNAME Detjen, Jörg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Detjen, Jockel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and politician (PDS)
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin