Johannes Pflug

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Johannes Pflug

Johannes Andreas "Hans" Pflug (born April 8, 1946 in Duisburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and former member of the Bundestag .

Life and work

After obtaining the intermediate certificate 1963 plow initially opted for an apprenticeship and attended to the National School of Civil Engineering in Essen , which he in 1969 as a graduate - engineer (FH) for surveying completed.

After joining the higher technical service of the city of Duisburg in 1969, Pflug was employed part-time as a secondary school teacher from 1971 to 1980 . He then studied physics and economics at the University of Dortmund after having previously obtained the general university entrance qualification . Since 1984 he has worked as a department head and authorized representative at Stadtwerke Duisburg .

Johannes Pflug is Protestant , married and has two children.

Pflug has been the city of Duisburg's honorary China representative since 2015 and represents it in official contacts between the People's Republic of China and the city. He also arranges contacts with representatives from business and politics in Germany and China.

Political career

He has been a member of the SPD since 1965 and was chairman of the SPD sub-district of Duisburg from 1990 to March 3, 2006 . From 1992 to 1998 he was also deputy chairman of the Lower Rhine SPD district . From 1975 to 1979, Pflug was a member of the city ​​council of his hometown Duisburg. From 1980 to 1998, Pflug was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

MP

Johannes Pflug was a member of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2013, where he worked on the Foreign Affairs Committee. His main focus was on the region of South and East Asia . Pflug was deputy spokesman for foreign policy for the SPD parliamentary group and chairman of the SPD Task Force Afghanistan / Pakistan . Since 2005 he has been chairman of the Sino- German parliamentary group.

Before that, Pflug was deputy chairman of the German- Korean parliamentary group (since 1998). He was also head of the delegation of the German members of the WEU Parliamentary Assembly and deputy member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly . In 1996, Pflug was elected to the SPD's federal party council.

Pflug always moved into the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Duisburg II constituency . In the 1998 Bundestag election , he entered the Bundestag with 66.4% of the first votes and thus the best result of all candidates nationwide. In the 2005 Bundestag election he received 61.6% of the first votes and thus the best result of all SPD direct candidates in Germany. In 2009, Pflug received 47.4% of the first votes in the Duisburg constituency 117 and 40.7% of the second votes. Mahmut Özdemir has been his successor in the German Bundestag since 2013 .

On December 17, 2014, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon by Federal President Joachim Gauck in Berlin and presented by Bundestag President Norbert Lammert .

Memberships

Johannes Pflug is a member of many organizations, associations and committees:

Memberships in the Bundestag

  • Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  • Foreign Policy Group (deputy spokesman)
  • Europa-Union parliamentary group German Bundestag
  • Member of the following parliamentary groups :
    • Indo-German parliamentary group
    • German-Australian-New Zealand Parliamentary Group
    • German- South Asian parliamentary group
    • German-Korean Parliamentary Group (Deputy Chairman)
    • Sino-German Parliamentary Group (Chairman)
  • Group Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
  • International Policy Commission of the party executive

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  1. ^ NRZ: MP Hans Pflug - "Farewell without melancholy"
  2. a b c About myself . Johannes-pflug.de. Archived from the original on January 19, 2011. 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 June 9, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.johannes-pflug.de
  3. Bundestag . johannes-pflug.de. Archived from the original on January 19, 2011. 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 June 9, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.johannes-pflug.de
  4. constituency kings 1994 to 2009 . ndv.kjm6.de. August 15, 2013. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
  5. Panoramic view through parliament . bundestag.de. Archived from the original on August 8, 2007. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
  6. ^ Federal election: Johannes Pflug (SPD) victorious - West - DerWesten . Derwesten.de. September 27, 2009. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
  7. ↑ Areas of activity . johannes-pflug.de. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. 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 June 9, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.johannes-pflug.de

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