Jürgen Steinert

Jürgen Steinert (born March 6, 1937 in Dresden ) is a German politician , business manager and former member of the Hamburg Parliament for the SPD .

Life

Jürgen Steinert spent a large part of his youth in Berlin, where he was raised by foster parents. From 1943 to 1954 he attended school mainly in Berlin and Bad Bramstedt and then did an apprenticeship as a retail salesman . During this time he was elected by his colleagues as the company youth representative.

In 1958 he went to the German Employees' Union as a trainee ( ver.di from 2001 ), where he trained to become a specialist in educational policy issues. He passed on this knowledge as a lecturer at the union's central youth education center. He became state youth leader and chairman of the state youth association in Berlin.

From 1962 to 1964 Jürgen Steinert studied at the University of Economics and Politics with a degree in economics (grad.). He then went to the DAG's national board as a speaker. There his focus was on education, occupational and company policy and he was jointly responsible for the union's research center.

politics

In 1957 Steinert joined the SPD. From May 1976 to September 1981 he was elected deputy state chairman of his party in Hamburg. In 1978 he moved in as a member of the Hamburg parliament, after having been appointed representative of Hamburg to the federal government in 1974. In 1978 he became Senator for Economics and from 1982 to February 1983 President of the Tax Authority. On April 18, 1986, he resigned from his parliamentary mandate.

Even after his retirement as a senator, he was active on various committees. For example as the supervisory board of the DEGEWO housing association and as president of the Federal Association of German Housing Companies . The DESWOS, development aid for social housing and human settlements , made him an honorary chairman.

swell

• Handbook of the Hamburg citizenship 11th electoral term. Editor: Hinnerk Fock , pages 319–321
• Munzinger online, beginning Jürgen Steinert , freely available
• Brockhaus,

Web links

• Jürgen Steinert in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Steinert no longer wants to run" , in Hamburger Abendblatt of April 12, 1986, accessed on May 25, 2020.