Johannes Jung (politician)
Johannes Jung (born March 27, 1967 in Karlsruhe ) is a German politician ( SPD ).
Life and work
After graduating from high school in 1986 at the Ludwig-Marum-Gymnasium in Pfinztal , Jung studied political science , public law , European law and sociology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , from which he graduated in 1995 as a Magister Artium .
He then worked as a managing director at the SPD state association Baden-Württemberg and then from 1998 to 2005 as a research assistant for Brigitte Wimmer , member of the Bundestag .
After leaving the Bundestag in 2009, he worked for the management consultancy Roland Berger with a focus on European issues until the end of April 2012 . Since May 2012 he has been the new Head of the Representation of the State of Baden-Württemberg to the European Union .
Jung is married and has a daughter.
Political party
As a student, Jung became a member of the Jusos in 1982 and of the SPD in 1985. From 1990 to 1991 he was deputy state chairman of the Jusos in Baden-Württemberg.
Since 2000 he has been a member of the board of the SPD district association Karlsruhe-Stadt and since 2001 of the SPD state board in Baden-Württemberg. From 2006 to 2012 he was chairman of the SPD Karlsruhe-Stadt. At the district delegate conference of the SPD district association Karlsruhe-Stadt on July 3, 2008, the then 41-year-old was confirmed in his office for another two years with 86% of the votes. With this, Jung significantly improved the result of 2006 (72%) - at that time as the successor to SPD Social Affairs Director Harald Denecken.
MP
From 2005 to 2009 Jung was a member of the German Bundestag .
In 2005 he entered the Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list . His re-election in his home constituency of Karlsruhe-Stadt failed in 2009.
As a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Jung was an expert on Eastern Europe and the EU neighborhood policy. In the Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid he campaigned for the situation of persecuted people. For example, in 2009 he welcomed the US announced closure of the illegal “ Guantanamo ” camp . Several times he gave speeches in the plenary session of the German Bundestag on Human Rights Day. In April 2008, Jung moderated a cross-factional discussion with the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner in the German Bundestag in his function as deputy chairman of the Members of the Europa-Union group in the German Bundestag. Kouchner, founder of the Doctors Without Borders association , took a specific position on the goals of the French EU Council Presidency.
Diamorphine-assisted substitution treatment
Since the beginning of his first legislative period in the German Bundestag, Jung has been campaigning for the transfer of diamorphine-supported substitution treatment to standard care, financed by the health insurance companies. At the beginning of 2007, he initiated his own draft law for the distribution of heroin to the severely dependent, which was signed by around 180 members of the SPD, but was rejected in the grand coalition of CDU / CSU. Jung, who is also an Executive Member of AWO Karlsruhe, the winner of the since 2002 current Karlsruher heroin pilot project is the first signatory was also the Bill submitted in November 2007, the Federal Council draft law on the diamorphine-based substitution treatment , the prior year 2008/09 its equivalent in design of a law on diamorphine-based substitution treatment , submitted on December 19, 2008, signed by more than 250 MPs from the parliamentary groups of the SPD, Greens, FDP and Die Linke. The bill found a clear majority in parliament in May 2009.
Other activities
Jung is a member of the Europa-Union Deutschland and represented the SPD on the board of its parliamentary group in the 16th German Bundestag.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see: Europa-Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag ( Memento from December 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jung, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |