Joachim Stünker

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Joachim Stünker (born March 29, 1948 in Langwedel ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2002 to 2009 he was the legal policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1967 at the Wall am Wall in Verden / Aller , Stünker studied law at the Free University of Berlin and the Georg-August University of Göttingen , which he completed in 1973 with the first state examination in law. After completing his legal clerkship , he passed the second state examination in 1975 and since then has worked as a judge , since 1990 as presiding judge at the Verden district court .

Joachim Stünker is married and has two children.

politics

Stünker joined the SPD as a schoolboy in 1965. He has been a member of the local council of his birthplace Langwedel since 1976 and of the district council of the Verden district since 1986 . For 17 years (until 2001) he was honorary mayor of the Flecken Langwedel.

From 1998 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag . After initially acting as deputy spokesman from 1998 to 2002, from October 2002 he became the spokesman for the legal policy working group of the SPD parliamentary group . From November 2004 to November 2005 and from October 2007 until he left the Bundestag after the 2009 Bundestag election , he was a member of the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group. Stünker was also a member of the parliamentary control body of the Bundestag, which oversees the work of the secret services .

Stünker is one of the authors of the Living Will Act of 2009. The so-called "Stünker design" applied since September, 2009.

Joachim Stünker has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Verden - Osterholz and, since 2002, of the constituency of Rotenburg - Verden . In the 2005 Bundestag election he received 44.2% of the first votes . In the 2009 Bundestag election he achieved a result of 36.6% and was thus defeated by his competitor Andreas Mattfeldt (CDU) by just under 0.5 percentage points. Since Stünker was also unable to move into the Bundestag via the SPD's state list, he left the Bundestag. He declared his political career over.

Stünker returned to his position at the Verden Regional Court and was retired in May 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the German Bundestag: Members of the Parliamentary Control Committee ( Memento from December 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Living will (Stünker application) . parliamentwatch.de. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Stünker, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Langwedel