Jan Jalass

Jan Jalass (born April 10, 1937 in Copenhagen ) is a German SPD politician and a former member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

Jan Jalass, born in 1937, spent the first years of his life in Sweden and went to school in Gothenburg . In 1953 the family moved to Hamburg. Here he completed school and passed the secondary school leaving certificate .

He did an apprenticeship as a wholesale merchant. Then he was drawn to the water. For seven years he worked as a deckhand and port skipper with a patent in the port of Hamburg. In 1972 he became managing director of a medium-sized port company. He married and had two children.

politics

His political home is the more "left-wing" SPD district of Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . His party sent him to the deputation of the Department for Environment and Health . He was in the District Assembly elected Eimsbüttel, where the SPD party chairman.

From 1978 to 1993 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament. He mainly worked on the Port and Economy Committee and the Health Committee .

Voluntary work

Jan Jalass was a member of the Board of Directors of the Port of Hamburg Shipping Association. He is a member of the board of Hafenkultur eV - Friends of the Harbor Museum in Hamburg . It is precisely this financially poorly equipped museum that his main commitment is voluntary work. As one of more than 200 volunteers, he takes on a large part of the museum's tasks - from guided tours through the museum grounds to taking care of the coffee hatch and working for the Fastmaker , the club magazine for the friends of the port museum .

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• Handbook of the Hamburg Citizenship, 11th electoral term. Editor: Hinnerk Fock .
• Hamburger Abendblatt dated April 24, 2004