Jens Eckhoff (politician)

Jens Eckhoff 2015

Jens Eckhoff (born January 7, 1966 in Bremen ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He is a member of the Bremen Parliament and former Senator for Building, Environment and Transport (2003–2006) in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

biography

education and profession

Eckhoff completed an apprenticeship as a banker at Deutsche Bank in Bremen from 1985 to 1987 . Until 1988 he worked as a junior corporate customer advisor and from 1988 to 1991 as a salesman for a freight forwarding company in Bremen. From March 1991 to 1993 he was an advisor to the CDU state chairman Bernd Neumann . From 1994 to June 1999 he was self-employed in the field of sports marketing and real estate consulting. In 2006, Eckhoff went into business for himself with the project development company ihoch5 in Bremen. With this company he is involved in various companies in the fields of events, gastronomy and the Internet.

politics

Political party

In 1980 Eckhoff joined the Junge Union (JU) and in 1982 the CDU. Between 1984 and 1989 he was chairman of the Bremen-Stadt district association of the JU. In 1989 he became regional chairman of the JU and remained so until 1998. Between 1984 and 1990 he was a member of the district committee of the CDU Bremen- Stadt. From 1989 to 2006 he was a member of the CDU state executive. From 1990 to 2010 he was a member of the CDU urban district association Eastern Suburbs. In spring 2010, Eckhoff took over the chairmanship of the newly created CDU city district association center / eastern suburb of the CDU Bremen. In 2012 he was elected as the successor to Hans-Georg Gerling as chairman of the CDU district association Bremen-Stadt.

Since November 2012 he has been Deputy State Chairman of the CDU Bremen .

In June 2003 it became known that listening devices had been found in his party office and that of the then CDU state chairman Bernd Neumann ; the transmission signals had been discovered by a blind radio amateur . In the subsequent search, however, numerous traces were covered.

After 2003 to 2006 Eckhoff found himself in an outsider role within the CDU. Within the party, he advocated the reform of the Bremen CDU into a “modern city party”. He also took the view that in order to be able to replace the SPD after the 2007 general election, a black-green coalition in Bremen would have to be considered.

Member of Parliament

Eckhoff was a member of the Bremen citizenship from October 16, 1991 to July 3, 2003. He then resigned from the citizenry because he became a senator. On February 22nd, 2006, after the end of his tenure as senator, he rejoined the citizenship and left again at the end of the electoral term on June 7th, 2007.

In 1999 Eckhoff prevailed in a vote against the previous parliamentary group leader of the CDU Ronald-Mike Neumeyer and was then parliamentary group chairman until he left the citizenry in 2003 and at that time, at the age of 33, the youngest CDU parliamentary group chairman.

With the 2015 citizenship election , he has been a member of the Bremen citizenship again since June 8, 2015. He is represented in the Committee for Federal and European Affairs, International Contacts and Development Cooperation (member), Performa Nord Works Committee (deputy member), Budget and Finance Committee (Land) (Chairman), Audit Committee (Land) (member) and in the Committee for Citizen participation, civic engagement and advisory boards (member)

Public offices

From July 4, 2003 to February 22, 2006 Eckhoff was in the Senate of Henning Scherf and Jens Böhrnsen Senator for the Environment, Building and Transport Bremen . He announced his resignation in February 2006 for personal reasons. He wanted to say goodbye to big politics and initially only to remain a member of parliament until the next general election. His successor as senator was Ronald-Mike Neumeyer, who he ousted as parliamentary group leader in 1999.

Further memberships

• From 2003 to 2006 Eckhoff was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of GEWOBA .
• He has been President of the German Foundation for the Promotion of Offshore Wind Energy since 2005. From December 1st, 2009 to July 31st, 2010 he was interim managing director of the Windenergie-Agentur Bremerhaven / Bremen e. V. (WAB).
• He is a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Windtechnik in Bremen.
• He also sits on the advisory board of Schneider Electric Deutschland GmbH.

See also

• List of Bremen Senators
• List of the building senators of Bremen
• List of the Environment Senators from Bremen
• Senate Scherf III
• Senate Böhrnsen I

Web links

Commons : Jens Eckhoff  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography with the Bremen citizenship
• Profile page at the CDU parliamentary group
• Private homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Investments . Website of ihochfuenf GmbH. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
2. ↑ State Board . Website of the CDU Bremen. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
3. ↑ Heiner Stahn: Eckhoff and Neumann offices were bugged. In: welt.de . June 26, 2003, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Hubert Gude: ABHÖRSKANDAL: Dilettantes hunt professionals. In: Focus Online . June 30, 2003. Retrieved October 14, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Environment Senator Eckhoff gives up , article by Eckhard Stengel in Das Parlament , February 13, 2006
6. ↑ Foundation of the German Industry for the Use and Research of Wind Energy at Sea ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Organization chart of Deutsche Windtechnik AG