Jost de Jager

Jost de Jager (2011)

Jost de Jager (born March 7, 1965 in Rendsburg ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 2009 to 2012 he was a member of the state government of Schleswig-Holstein as Minister for Science, Economics and Transport . From September 24, 2011 to January 10, 2013 he was state chairman of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein . He was also the top candidate of his party for the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2012 .

Life and work

Jost de Jager grew up in Gettorf as the son of a Protestant pastor. After graduating from high school in 1985 at Kronshagen high school , de Jager did his military service and then began studying history , English and political science at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel in 1987 , which he completed in 1994 with a master's degree . He then completed a traineeship at the Evangelical Press Service in Kiel until 1996 .

After retiring from politics, he was appointed to the supervisory board of Denker & Wulff AG, Sehestedt , on November 21, 2012 . From 2012 to 2015 he worked as an independent management consultant. On October 1, 2015, the DSK Deutsche Stadt- und Grundstücksentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG, Wiesbaden , appointed him as managing director of their newly founded subsidiary Deutsche Strategy- und Kommunikationgesellschaft mbH.

Jost de Jager is married and has one daughter.

Political party

Jost de Jager was a member of the state executive of the Junge Union from 1988 to 1992 and of the CDU state executive in Schleswig-Holstein from 1988 to 2005.

Jost de Jager was deputy chairman of the CDU district association Rendsburg-Eckernförde , of which he had been a member since 1988. He also heads the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU in Schleswig-Holstein. At the state party conference in 2008, de Jager was elected to the state executive committee of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein as an assessor.

After a relationship between the state chairman of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein, Christian von Boetticher , and a sixteen-year-old became known, he resigned from his position on August 14, 2011 and also renounced his top candidacy for the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2012 . After a query from the CDU district chairman signaled a clear vote in favor of Jost de Jager as successor to von Boetticher, he was officially nominated for both tasks on August 16, 2011 by the state executive led by CDU Prime Minister Peter Harry Carstensen .

CDU state chairman and top candidate for the state elections in 2012

Jost de Jager with Angela Merkel and Susanne Herold at a rally in Flensburg for the 2012 state election.

On September 24, 2011, at a CDU special party conference in Kiel , de Jager was elected first with 93.4 percent as the new CDU state chairman and then on November 4 at a party congress in Lübeck with 90.4 percent as the CDU's top candidate for the state election .

In the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2012 on May 6, 2012, the CDU, led by Jost de Jager, achieved 30.8 percent, making it the strongest party. It won 22 of the 69 seats in the state parliament, the SPD was just behind the CDU with 30.4 percent and received the same number of seats. Despite winning the relative majority for the CDU, the previous coalition of the CDU and FDP lost its previous majority. SPD top candidate Torsten Albig became the new Prime Minister.

On January 8, 2013, de Jager announced that he would step down as state chairman on January 10, 2013 and withdraw completely from active politics. He will no longer run for first place on the Schleswig-Holstein state list for the 2013 federal election and will forego direct candidacy in the federal constituency of Flensburg - Schleswig . On March 16, 2013 Reimer Böge was elected as his successor.

MP

From 1996 until the resignation of his mandate on April 27, 2005, de Jager was a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein . From 2000 to 2005 he was a member of the board of the CDU parliamentary group and from 2002 to 2005 he was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. From 2002 to 2005 he was also deputy chairman of the education committee.

Jost de Jager entered the state parliament in 1996 and 2000 via the state list and in 2005 as a directly elected member of the Eckernförde constituency . In the state elections in 2005, he received 43.3% of the first votes . In the 2012 election, however, he remained without a state parliament mandate, as the CDU won all of its 22 state parliament mandates directly and the CDU state list on which he took first place did not come into effect.

Public offices

On April 27, 2005, Jost de Jager was appointed State Secretary in the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry for Science, Economy and Transport to the state government led by Prime Minister Carstensen. On October 27, 2009 he became State Minister in this Ministry ( Cabinet Carstensen II ); Cordelia Andreßen and Tamara Zieschang were appointed as new state secretaries. With the appointment of the Albig cabinet , he resigned from office.

Further memberships

• Member of the Atlantik-Brücke eV
• Member of the Synod of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church

Web links

Commons : Jost de Jager  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jost de Jager in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jost de Jager ( Memento from March 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ http://www.jostdejager.de/consultant-profile/
3. ↑ DSK BIG BAU group of companies appoints Jost de Jager as new managing director ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Boetticher successor: Jost de Jager. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 21, 2015 . 
5. ↑ CDU gives the green light: Free path for Jost de Jager. Archived from the original on September 3, 2012 ; accessed on October 21, 2015 . 
6. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/region/article2083095/Jost-de-Jager-ist-neuer-Spitzenkandidat-der-Nord-CDU.html
7. ↑ North CDU: Country chief de Jager withdraws from politics , accessed on January 8, 2013
8. ↑ North CDU leader Jost de Jager withdraws from politics Welt (January 8, 2013)
9. ↑ Reimer Böge is the new CDU country chief ( Memento from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ http://www.landtagswahl-sh.de/ cf. There elected applicants in the constituencies and elected applicants from the state lists
11. ↑ dpa-info.com GmbH: CDU top candidate de Jager missed entry into the Kiel parliament. In: welt.de . May 7, 2012, accessed March 10, 2019 .