Jürgen Koppelin

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Jürgen Koppelin in the plenary session of the German Bundestag

Jürgen Koppelin (born September 14, 1945 in Wesselburen ) is a German politician ( FDP ).

Life and work

After graduating from secondary school , Koppelin initially trained as a bank clerk and then worked from 1965 to 1969 as a temporary soldier with the Air Force's 52 reconnaissance wing . Then he worked until 1972 for the FDP member of the Bundestag Walter Peters . From 1972 to 1981 he worked as a sales and promotion manager at Philips / PolyGram in Zurich and Hamburg . From 1979 Koppelin presented music programs at Radio Bremen, alternating weekly with Chris Howland . In 1981 he switched to the North German Broadcasting Company in Kiel as chief editor . Here he moderated, among other things, the Saturday program Notenlotto . From 2010 to the end of October 2012, Koppelin was a member of the Radio Council at Deutschlandradio, representing the State of Schleswig-Holstein. On July 19, 2017, Koppelin was elected to the media council of the Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein media authority by the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament . From 2014 to 2018 Koppelin was a Schöffe at the Kiel Regional Court.

From 1970 to 1991 he was a member of the city council and chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in Bad Bramstedt. In 1990 and 1991 he was honorary first deputy mayor.

From 1994 to January 2014 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), which was renamed Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) on January 1, 2011 , and was on the administrative board of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau ( KfW). He is also a member of the board of trustees of Aktion Deutschland Hilft eV, as well as an advisory board member in the German-Vietnamese Society and in the German-Thai Society . Koppelin actively promoted Daniel Barenboim's project in Berlin to create an academy for young musicians from the Middle East, the Barenboim-Said-Akademie (Managing Director Michael Naumann ).

From 2013 to November 2015, Koppelin was honorary chairman of the advisory board of the trust foundation for the support of special hardship cases in the Bundeswehr and the former NVA (hardship foundation), which was founded on his initiative. From February 2015 to March 2020, Koppelin was chairman of the DRK local association in Bad Bramstedt, and since November 2015 Koppelin has been deputy DRK district chairman in Segeberg. From 1990 to 1994 Koppelin was the state chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein welfare organization.

Jürgen Koppelin is a Protestant , married and the father of two daughters. Koppelin lives in Bad Bramstedt and Sankt Peter-Ording .

Political party

Koppelin has been a member of the FDP since 1962. He was a member of the FDP federal executive committee from 1979 to 1983 and from 1993 to 2007. From 2003 to 2005 he was also a member of the FDP Presidium, but after two years decided not to be re-elected and proposed Philipp Rösler as his successor, who was then elected to the FDP Presidium at the 56th FDP Party Congress. After the resignation of Wolfgang Kubicki , Koppelin was elected state chairman of the FDP Schleswig-Holstein in 1993 . He held this office until November 2011. In this function he led the negotiations for the FDP in October 2009 with the CDU chairman Peter Harry Carstensen to form a black-yellow coalition in Schleswig-Holstein. Since November 2011 he has been honorary chairman of the FDP in Schleswig-Holstein.

MP

From 1990 to 2013 Koppelin was a member of the German Bundestag and from 1998 to 2009 parliamentary director and budget spokesman for his party as the successor to Günter Rexrodt . During this time, he ensured that the FDP parliamentary group was the only one to develop a social plan for its employees, which was then implemented in 2013 after the party failed to meet the five percent threshold. From 2009 to 2013 Koppelin was chairman of the FDP in the budget committee. From 1991 to 2013 he was Deputy Chairman of the German-ASEAN Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag and from 2002 to 2013 Vice-President of the German Parliamentary Society . From 1998 to 2009 he was parliamentary managing director of the FDP parliamentary group and then until 2011 deputy group chairman .

Jürgen Koppelin has always entered the Bundestag via the Schleswig-Holstein state list. He was a member of the 10th up to and including the 15th Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President.

As one of only three FDP MPs, Jürgen Koppelin voted on October 28, 2010 against the extension of the nuclear power plants. Likewise, Koppelin and three other FDP members of the Bundestag voted on March 1, 2013 against the Ancillary Protection Act (Copyright Act). Koppelin took part in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia several times in 2012/2013 , of which Germany was one of the main sponsors of the UN.

On May 10, 2011 Koppelin ran again as deputy FDP parliamentary group chairman and was defeated in the vote by his opponent Volker Wissing . Previously, he had indirectly called for the resignation of the parliamentary group leader Birgit Homburger in a paper .

After 23 years in the Bundestag, Koppelin did not run for the 2013 federal election.

Awards

In February 2009, Koppelin received an honorary doctorate from the National Economics University Hanoi / Vietnam. For his commitment to promoting the Jewish Museum in Berlin, W. Michael Blumenthal gave him a lifelong admission ticket to the museum. Koppelin was unanimously elected an honorary member of the board by the general assembly of the German Parliamentary Society in May 2014 . On November 19, 2015, Koppelin was awarded the Order of the Crown of Thailand .

Others

Some people know Koppelin less for his political work than for the ironic use of his name in the comedy series Stenkelfeld on NDR radio, in which the fictional Jürgen Koppelin educational establishment plays an important role.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Koppelin ( Memento from June 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Final result of roll-call vote No. 25 ( Memento from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ bundestag.de
  4. ↑ http://www.fdp-sh.de/Aktuelle-News.180+M52bd55e0174.0.html (link not available)

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Commons : Jürgen Koppelin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Koppelin, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesselburen