Jürgen Weber (politician)

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Jürgen Weber at the state party conference of the SPD Schleswig-Holstein in Lübeck 2009

Jürgen Weber (born March 31, 1955 in Kappeln ) is a German historian and politician ( SPD ), was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament from 1996 to 2017 and there a. a. Deputy Chairman and Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD parliamentary group .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1974, Weber did his military service and then began studying history , Slavic and Eastern European history at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , which he completed in 1986 as a Magister Artium . Here he was a member of the student parliament from 1979 to 1982 and was chairman of the AStA from 1980 to 1981 . Weber worked from 1987 to 1993 as a research assistant and then as a freelance historian. Weber is honorary managing director of the Advisory Board for History in the Society for Politics and Education Schleswig-Holstein , which has been publishing the regional historical yearbook Democratic History since 1986 .

Jürgen Weber is an enthusiastic football fan and is involved in football not only in Schleswig-Holstein as a member of the Supervisory Board of Holstein Kiel , and, as he puts it on his homepage, his heart is on Degerfors IF , a football club from the province of Värmland in Sweden .

Jürgen Weber is married and has three children.

Political party

Weber joined the SPD as a schoolboy in 1971. He was initially involved with the Jusos and was a member of their district board in Kiel from 1974 to 1978 . From 1987 to 1991 he was also a member of the board of the SPD district association in Kiel. In mid-January 2013 he announced his candidacy for the office of SPD district chairman for Kiel, after the incumbent Rolf Fischer had declared his resignation. The district party congress elected Weber to this office on February 2, 2013 with a large majority. On June 2, 2018, his successor Gesine Stück was elected to this office. Weber was no longer running for election.

MP

From 1996 to 2017 Weber was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament . In the constituency of Kiel-Mitte, he won his nomination as a direct candidate on June 13, 1995 in an internal party vote against the competitor and previous member of the state parliament, Gert Börnsen .

As a member of parliament, Weber was a member of the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group from 1998 to 2012, and was elected parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group in 2009. From 1998 to 2005 he was the education policy spokesman for his group. From 2005 to 2009 he was deputy group chairman. From 1997 to 2000 he was also chairman of the inquiry commission “Chances and Risks of Genetic Engineering ” . Due to some disputes with the SPD parliamentary group leader Ralf Stegner , Weber was not proposed again as parliamentary manager after the state election in 2012.

Jürgen Weber has always entered the state parliament as a directly elected member of the constituency of Kiel-Mitte and, since 2005, of the constituency of Kiel-West. In the state elections in 2005 he received 49.2% of the first votes , in 2009 Jürgen Weber received 36.3% of the first votes in his constituency. In the 2009 state elections, Jürgen Weber was one of only six SPD state parliament members in Schleswig-Holstein who managed to win an electoral district directly. In 2012, he achieved an approval rate of 42.9% in his constituency and was again directly elected to the state parliament. To state election in 2017 , he joined - after 21 years in Parliament - not again.

Publications

  • Roots and first decades of the Gustav Heinemann educational institution . In: Democratic History , Vol. 30 (2019), pp. 277–292.

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Weber  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://m.kn-online.de/Kiel/Liveblog-zum-SPD-Kreisparteitag-in-Kiel-02.06.2018
  2. ↑ Susanne Gaschke: Börnsen's deep fall. In: The time v. September 8, 1995.
  3. ↑ Martina Drexler: For Jürgen Weber from the SPD Kiel, 2017 is the end of the state parliament . In: Kieler Nachrichten of July 10, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Kappeln