Jan van Aken (politician)

Jan van Aken (2017)

Jan van Aken in conversation with Milcah Lalam, head of the Sudanese NGO RECONCILE Peace Institute (2010)

Jan Paul van Aken (born May 1, 1961 in Reinbek ) is a German activist for Greenpeace and politicians ( Die Linke ). From 2009 to 2017 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1980, van Aken began to study biology at the University of Hamburg . At the same time, he became involved in the anti-nuclear power movement from 1980 . After graduating as a qualified biologist (1989) and obtaining his doctorate (1993), he worked as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg. In 1997 he became an expert in genetic engineering at the environmental protection organization Greenpeace International and remained so until 2009. At the same time, he worked from 2004 to 2006 as a biological weapons inspector for the United Nations . His longstanding commitment against biological warfare agents had prompted him in 1999 to set up the organization Sunshine Project to outlaw them, which followed in 2003 with the establishment of a research institute with a similar aim. After returning to Hamburg following his work for the UN, he joined the party Die Linke and two years later became its top candidate in the 2009 Bundestag election in Hamburg. In May 2016, van Aken was elected to the 44-member federal executive committee of Die Linke.

MP

Jan van Aken entered the 17th German Bundestag via the Hamburg state list of his party after the 2009 Bundestag election . From 2009 to 2011 he was deputy chairman of the left parliamentary group and since 2012 its foreign policy spokesman. For the 2013 federal election , van Aken was a direct candidate for the left for the Hamburg-Altona constituency . Van Aken moved back into the 18th German Bundestag via the state list and was initially a deputy member of the main committee , which was set up due to the lengthy coalition negotiations and existed until the permanent committees were constituted.

In both electoral terms van Aken was a full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag and a deputy member of its subcommittee on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation, in the 18th electoral term he was also a deputy member of the Defense Committee and a full member of the body pursuant to Section 23c (8) of the Customs Investigation Service Act .

In June 2016, van Aken announced that he would no longer run in the 2017 federal election.

Sentenced for public incitement to criminal offenses

On November 29, 2012, the German Bundestag lifted the immunity of van Akens and three other members of the Left on the basis of a proposal by the Immunity Committee. In 2010 you took part in a call for ballasting during the Castor transport in Lower Saxony - that is, removing stones from under train tracks as a criminal offense. In April 2013 he was sentenced by the Lüneburg District Court as well as Sevim Dağdelen , Inge Höger and Christel Wegner to a fine of 15 daily rates of 150 euros each for a public request to commit criminal offenses .

Web links

Commons : Jan van Aken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Homepage of Jan van Aken
• Jan van Aken on parliamentwatch.de
• “We have to have clear positions” , conversation with Jan van Aken on Deutschlandfunk Kultur , February 2, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Development and testing of fixation methods ...
2. ^ German Bundestag: Jan van Aken, LINKE. Member of the 18th WP (2013-2017). In: Web archive of the German Bundestag. German Bundestag, accessed on October 6, 2017 . 
3. ^ German Bundestag: Main Committee. Committees 18th WP. In: Web archive of the German Bundestag. German Bundestag, accessed on October 6, 2017 . 
4. ^ German Bundestag: Jan van Aken, LINKE. Member of the 17th WP (2009-2013). In: Web archive of the German Bundestag. German Bundestag, accessed on October 6, 2017 . 
5. ↑ German Bundestag: Committee according to § 23c paragraph 8 of the Customs Investigation Service Act (ZFdG). Committees of the 18th WP. (No longer available online.) In: bundestag.de. German Bundestag, archived from the original on September 14, 2017 ; accessed on October 7, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Jan van Aken: "Some really hate me". (HTTPS) In: Die Welt. WeltN24 GmbH, June 21, 2016, accessed on June 25, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Anti-nuclear protest: Left-wing politicians convicted of calling for “gravel”. In: spiegel.de. SPIEGEL ONLINE GmbH, April 23, 2013, accessed on October 7, 2017 . 
8. ^ Lüneburg court condemns Jan van Aken, member of the Bundestag . In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt of Zeitungsgruppe Hamburg GmbH, April 10, 2013, accessed on April 10, 2013 . 
9. ↑ Convicted of "gravel" appeal . In: taz.de. taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH, April 10, 2013, accessed April 10, 2013 .