Jürgen Klute

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Jürgen Klute (born October 18, 1953 in Bünde ) is a German politician, social pastor, publicist and was a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014 .

Life and work

Between 1974 and 1981 Klute studied theology in Bielefeld and Marburg with a focus on peace education , liberation theology , materialistic exegesis and intercultural dialogue .

From 1982 to 1984 Klute completed his vicariate in the Protestant parish of Marburg-Ockershausen . From 1984 to 1986 he worked as a religion teacher at the vocational school in Bad Berleburg . Between 1986 and 1989 Klute worked on the project “Industrial Work Environment and Church” of the Gladbeck parish in Dorsten-Hervest. As part of the project, he worked underground on the mine there for six months.

In 1989, Klute was elected industrial and social pastor and head of the social pastoral office of the Herne church district. After the social parish in Herne was dissolved, Klute worked from 2007 to 2009 as a consultant at the Evangelical City Academy in Bochum .

Jürgen Klute is married and has two children.

Social policy engagement and top candidate for the WASG

Jürgen Klute has been co-editor of the magazine AMOS - Kritische Blätter from the Ruhr area since 1988 . Klute has published a number of books on social ethics , the relationship between religion and social culture, and current social and labor market issues.

As a social pastor, Klute was one of the initiators of the Herner Alliance for Work and Social Justice (since 2004: "Herner Sozialforum"), as its spokesman until the end of 2004.

In the 2005 state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia , he was the top candidate for the WASG . From 2007 to 2009 he was a member of the federal executive committee of the party Die Linke . In this first election campaign after it was founded in 2004, the election alternative immediately became the fifth strongest party with around 2.2% of the votes cast. At the beginning of 2006, Klute was elected an advisory member of the culture committee of the Ruhr Regional Association (RVR) . At the end of April 2006, Klute was elected to the extended federal executive board of the WASG, where he remained until its dissolution on June 15, 2007. On June 16, he joined the party Die Linke and was elected to the federal executive committee for two years at the merger congress with the WASG.

Election to the European Parliament and functions

At the European Left Party Congress in Essen, Klute was elected to 6th place on the federal list of the party Die Linke with 85.9% of the votes cast, which achieved an election result of 7.5% in the European elections on June 7, 2009.

Klute was a member and coordinator of the European left-wing group GUE / NGL in the Economic and Monetary Committee, and an alternate member of the Budget Committee. He was a member of the delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries and the delegation to the Euro-Latin America Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute member of the delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee. In 2010 and 2011 he was a member of the Special Committee on Political Challenges that prepared the negotiations on the EU's Medium-Term Financial Framework 2014-2020.

In protest against the EU course of the left, Jürgen Klute decided not to apply again for a place on the list at the European Left Party Conference in Hamburg.

Financial and socio-political successes as a member of the European Union

As the author of an own-initiative report and as a negotiator for the Payment Accounts Directive , Klute made a decisive contribution to the EU-wide enforcement of the legal right to a current account from 2016. With this, the EU has for the first time anchored a fundamental social right in secondary law.

In 2011, Klute co-founded Finance Watch , a non-governmental organization that sees itself as a counter-lobby to the financial lobby in the European Union. As the left's negotiator on the EU financial market directive MiFID II, Klute played a key role in the introduction of position limits to limit food speculation in the EU. Klute was also involved in the negotiations on the Troika investigation report of the Economic and Monetary Committee of the European Parliament .

On May 15, 2014, Klute was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Colombian Court of Auditors for his commitment to the rights of smallholders in Colombia. In 2011 Klute proposed the peace community of San José de Apartadó for the Sacharov Prize of the European Parliament and invited representatives of the community to Brussels several times.

Publications (monographs and edited volumes)

  • Wolfgang Belitz, Jürgen Klute, Hans-Udo Schneider: Where are the churches drifting? 10 years of social word. An interim ecumenical review. BoD Verlag, Norderstedt 2008.
  • Jürgen Klute, Sandra Kotlenga (ed.): Social and labor market policy according to Hartz. Five years of Hartz reforms: stocktaking - analyzes - perspectives. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2008.
  • Jürgen Klute, Herbert Schlender, Sabine Sinagowitz (eds.): Positions on the minimum wage in the Protestant church. A documentation. BoD Verlag, Norderstedt 2007.
  • Jürgen Klute, Franz Segbers (Ed.): Good work demands fair wages. Collective agreements for the churches. VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2006.
  • Wolfgang Belitz, Jürgen Klute, Hans-Udo Schneider: People instead of markets. For a reorientation of the church in the third system. Lit Verlag, Münster 2006.
  • Jürgen Klute, Hans-Udo Schneider (Ed.): On the path to justice there is life. Social-ethical remarks and sketches on social justice today. Lit Verlag, Münster 2005.
  • Jürgen Klute, Lioba Schulte, Spyros Papaspyrou (eds.): AGORA - From coal to the amphitheater. Small steps towards Europe. Lit Verlag, Münster 2004.
  • Jürgen Klute, Herbert Schlender, Sabine Sinagowitz (eds.): Gute Arbeit / Good Work. Lit Verlag, Münster 2004.
  • Axel Gerntke, Jürgen Klute, Axel Troost, Achim Trube (eds.): Hart (z) on the verge of seriousness? The Hartz Commission as a new model of policy advice and design? Comments and critiques. Lit Verlag, Münster 2002.
  • Wolfgang Belitz, Jürgen Klute, Hans-Udo Schneider: Future of work in a new social contract. Lit Verlag, Münster 2001.

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Klute  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ WAZ December 31, 2013, accessed December 30, 2013
  2. ^ DIE ZEIT May 23, 2014, accessed on May 24, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Klute, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Frets