Johann Saathoff

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Johann Saathoff (2014)

Johann Saathoff (born December 9, 1967 in Emden ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He was elected in the federal election on September 22, 2013 as a direct candidate in the Aurich - Emden constituency in East Frisia and re-elected in the federal election on September 24, 2017 . Since August 26, 2020 he has been coordinator for inter-societal cooperation with Russia, Central Asia and the countries of the Eastern Partnership .

Family and education

Johann Saathoff was born on December 9, 1967 in Emden as the child of a dock worker and a net knitter . After graduating from high school in 1987 at the Johannes-Althusius-Gymnasium in his hometown Emden, he began an administrative career with the district government of Lüneburg , which he completed in 1990 with the title of Diplom-Verwaltungswirt (FH) . Saathoff then worked for three years at the Aurich branch of the Weser-Ems district government and then for ten years until 2003 in the administration of the Emden / Leer University of Applied Sciences , most recently as a senior government official (head of the personnel department). Johann Saathoff is married to the family therapist Sonja Saathoff and has five children. The family lives in Pewsum .

Political career

Saathoff was elected the first full-time mayor of the municipality of Krummhörn in February 2003 and was confirmed in his office in the election in September 2011. In August 2013 he was also elected chairman of the SPD sub-district Aurich, which includes the district of Aurich , as the successor to the Krummhorn Hilda Christians. The 128 delegates voted against. On August 26, 2017, he was confirmed in office with 94 percent.

MP

Johann Saathoff in the German Bundestag, 2019

Because the social democrat Garrelt Duin , who went to Berlin as a directly elected member of parliament in the federal elections in September 2005 and in September 2009 , resigned his parliamentary mandate on June 21, 2012 in order to become economics minister of North Rhine-Westphalia , a new SPD candidate became wanted for the federal election 2013. Gabriele Groneberg from Cloppenburg had taken over Duin's mandate, so the constituency was not represented by a directly elected MP. Saathoff was considered a potential successor to Duin at an early stage.

Saathoff was elected to the Bundestag on September 22, 2013 with 50.3 percent of the first votes (second vote result of the SPD in the constituency: 43.8 percent) as a directly elected member of the Aurich - Emden constituency. On the state list of the SPD, he was positioned at number 23 and thus not secured. When he was re-elected on September 24, 2017, with 49.6 percent of the first votes (second vote result of the SPD in the constituency: 37.8 percent), he achieved the SPD's best first and second vote result by a wide margin.

After Georg Peters , Carl Ewen , Jann-Peter Janssen and Garrelt Duin (all SPD), Saathoff is the fifth member of the Bundestag in the constituency since 1949.

He is a full member of the Committee on Economy and Energy and the Committee on Food and Agriculture . Until 2015 he was deputy agricultural policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group. Since 2015 Johann Saathoff has been the deputy spokesman for economic policy in his parliamentary group, energy policy coordinator and pilot (chairman) of the SPD coastal gang . Since February 2018 he has led the state group of SPD members from Lower Saxony and Bremen . He is also part of the expanded parliamentary committee of the SPD parliamentary group.

On March 2, 2018, he gave a speech in the Bundestag on the subject of the national language, some of which was written in Low German . Regarding the AfD's demand to establish German as the national language in the Basic Law, he said: "Düütschland word neet poor dör anner Spraken, Düütschland word rieker, un doarup motten wi stolt ween." we have to be proud of that.).

Among other things, he volunteers as a dyke judge at the Krummhörn dike and in the East Frisian landscape .

Web links

Commons : Johann Saathoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.johann-saathoff.de: CV. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ Oliver Das Gupta: So red, so black. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 23, 2013. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ www.johann-saathoff.de: CV. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
  4. ^ Johann Saathoff elected chairman of the SPD in the Aurich sub-district. ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Retrieved September 19, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.johann-saathoff.de
  5. ↑ Retired MPs and their successors. ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Retrieved September 19, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundestag.de
  6. ^ Fritz Harders: SPD tips for Johann Saathoff. In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung , August 29, 2012, accessed on September 19, 2013.
  7. ↑ Marco Hadem: Gabriel leads state SPD in election campaign. In: Nordwest-Zeitung . June 17, 2013. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
  8. ↑ Marlene Grunert, Constantin van Lijnden : Winner and Vanquished. Those who win their mandate directly enter the Bundestag with particular pride. A look at exceptional constituency results. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 26, 2017, p. 16.
  9. ↑ Members of the Committee on Food and Agriculture ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. bundestag.de , online, accessed September 18, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundestag.de
  10. ^ German Bundestag: Mediathek: German as a national language , as of March 2, 2018, accessed: March 2, 2018, 2:09 p.m. CET.
  11. ↑ Birte Mühlhoff: "Dat is stuur natovolltrekken, wat de AfD drieven deit". In: Zeit Online . March 2, 2018, accessed on March 2, 2018 (interview with Johann Saathoff).
  12. ^ Sentences of the year. In: Der Spiegel No. 49a / 2018, December 5, 2018, p. 202 (Chronicle 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Saathoff, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden