Jan Quast (politician)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jan Quast (2018)

Jan Quast (born January 18, 1966 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and manager of the health industry . With a short interruption, he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from October 2001 until the end of the 21st legislative period in 2020.

Life

Between 1972 and 1976 Quast attended elementary school in Hamburg-Winterhude . He then completed his school education with the Abitur at the Uhlenhorst-Barmbek grammar school by 1985 . This was followed by training as a banker and studying business administration, which he completed in 1996 at the University of Hamburg with a focus on business taxation and political science. During his studies he already gained his first political experience in his half-day job as a speaker for members of parliament. Until 1998 he worked as an employee of a project to modernize the administration in the residents' central office. He then became a personal advisor to the Hamburg Interior Senator Hartmuth Wrocklage and in 2001 he headed the office of the then Interior Senator Olaf Scholz .

Quast has been an employee of the Hamburg Authority for Health and Consumer Protection (BGV) since 2011 at the latest , where he heads the “ Health Management , International Affairs , Investments” department. Quast has been co-managing director of Gesundheitswirtschaft Hamburg GmbH since October 1, 2015 . This is an agency operated jointly by the municipal authority for health and consumer protection and the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce to promote the health economy and coordinate activities in the Hamburg health cluster .

politics

Jan Quast joined the SPD in 1985. In 1989 he became deputy SPD district chairman of the Jarrestadt local association in the Hamburg-Nord district in Winterhude . In 1996 he became district chairman of the Jarrestadt, which he remained until 2006. From 1987 to 1991 he was an elected citizen in various committees of the district assembly Hamburg-Nord and from 1991 to 2001 he was active as a district representative in Hamburg-Nord. There he was, among other things, a member of the commission for land regulation and also a member of the parliamentary committee of the SPD parliamentary group Hamburg-Nord. From 1993 to 1998 he was the economic policy spokesman for the SPD district parliamentary group, whose budget policy spokesman he was from 1997 to 2001 and whose deputy chairman he was from 1999 to 2001.

In October 2001 he moved into the Hamburg parliament for the first time for the SPD , of which he was a member until March 2008. There he was spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group for urban development, construction and transport, as well as for districts and administrative reform. He was also a member of the Budget Committee and its sub-committees. In the state elections in Hamburg in 2008 on February 24, 2008, he lost his desired citizenship mandate for the constituency 8 Eppendorf-Winterhude , but moved into the state on June 16, 2008 as a successor over the state list place 20, because Michael Naumann was for professional reasons Resigned. In the 19th electoral term he was chairman of the urban development committee for his party, a member of the culture, creative industries, tourism committee and the science committee. In the state elections in Hamburg in 2011 and in the 2015 state elections , he was again elected to the state parliament via the SPD state list places 31 and 17 respectively. He is a member of the Budget Committee and the Public Company Committee. In addition, he has been the budget and financial policy spokesman for his group since 2011.

Quast did not run again for the 2020 general election .

Web links

Commons : Jan Quast (politician)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Dear Readers ( Memento from May 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), in: Gesundheitswirtschaft Hamburg informs (III / 2015), accessed on December 9, 2018
  2. Dear reader ( Memento of May 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), in: Gesundheitswirtschaft Hamburg informs (III / 2015), accessed on May 18, 2016
  3. SPD Jarrestadt voted neu , abendblatt.de from September 30, 1989 (accessed December 9, 2018)
  4. ^ New SPD heads in two districts , Abendblatt.de of January 2, 1994 (accessed December 9, 2018)
  5. SPD districts voted , Abendblatt.de, March 11, 1996 (accessed December 9, 2018)
  6. Successful nomination at the SPD party conference , dirk-kienscherf.de on July 2, 2007 (accessed on December 9, 2018)
  7. New suffrage ensures new faces welt.de of May 15, 2007 (accessed on December 9, 2018)
  8. ↑ State list of the SPD Hamburg for the 2011 state election , abendblatt.de from January 31, 2011 (accessed on December 9, 2018)
  9. Profile Jan Quast / Joined Hamburg Citizenship on March 3, 2015 , parliamentwatch.de (accessed December 9, 2018)