Jochen Kohler

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Jochen Kohler (born January 18, 1975 in Nuremberg ) is a German politician ( CSU ).

Life

Kohler completed his school career with the Abitur . After his military service in Landsberg am Lech and Mengen (1994/95), he studied civil engineering at the Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg from 1995 . In addition, from 2002 to 2002 he completed postgraduate studies at the University of Kassel , where he passed the state examination as a civil engineer.

In 2002 he began his career as a construction trainee with the city of Nuremberg. Kohler has been working as a civil engineer for the city of Nuremberg since 2004 . There he was initially a member of the " Frankenschnellweg project team " (2004–2006), then at the subway construction office. Since 2016 he has been the head of the new subway building for the city of Nuremberg.

Kohler is married, has one daughter and lives in Oberasbach . He has been a member of 1. FC Nürnberg since 1996 , and in 2011 he ran for the supervisory board of the "Club".

politics

Kohler has been involved in party politics since 1998 when he joined the Junge Union and the CSU. From 2003 he was active as a local manager in the CSU local association St. Leonhard-Schweinau-Großreuth. Kohler has been chairman of the CSU district association Nuremberg-West since 2015.

In July 2017, Kohler, as Markus Söder's successor , was nominated for the first time as a direct candidate for the district of Nuremberg-West (district 504) for the state election in Bavaria in 2018 .

In May 2018, Kohler announced that he was suffering from the nervous disease multiple sclerosis (MS) and withdrew from his political commitments and from the election campaign for a few months. In October 2018, after rehabilitation , Kohler ran for the state election in Bavaria and won the direct mandate in the Nuremberg-West district with a 33.2% share of the vote "by a large margin". He is a member of the 18th Bavarian State Parliament . There Kohler is a member of the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs, Youth and Family and a member of the Committee for Housing, Construction and Transport.

His political priorities include transport , infrastructure and public transport . Kohler is also the spokesman for the citizens' initiative “PRO-Frankenröhre”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Jochen Kohler on parliament watch.de . Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  2. a b c d e Jochen Kohler . Vita. Official website of 1. FC Nürnberg . Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  3. ArtMasters Meet Politics - Interview with Jochen Kohler . Interview from July 15, 2018. Accessed October 16, 2018.
  4. a b c Jochen Kohler direct candidate for Nürnberg-West . Official website of the CSU district association Nuremberg-Fürth-Schwabach. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  5. Nuremberg CSU: Jochen Kohler suffers from MS . Report on Nordbayern.de from May 12, 2018. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  6. CSU CANDIDATE JOCHEN KOHLER: "Suddenly I have multiple sclerosis" . Report. In: BILD of September 10, 2018. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  7. ^ State election in Bavaria: results in the district of Nuremberg-West . Report on Nordbayern.de from October 14, 2018. Retrieved October 16, 2018.